Toward a Unified Ecology 2e

2. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-16888-5
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 504 Seiten, Format (B × H): 184 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 1056 g

Reihe: Complexity in Ecological Systems

The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Allen, Timothy

Hoekstra, Thomas

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PrefaceAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Principles of Ecological Integration2. The Landscape Criterion3. The Ecosystem Criterion4. The Community Criterion5. The Organism Criterion6. The Population Criterion7. The Biome and Biosphere Criteria8. Narratives for Complexity9. Management of Ecological Systems10. A Unified Approach to Basic ResearchConclusionNotesReferencesIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Allen, Timothy
Timothy F. H. Allen is Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems (Princeton UP, 1986), and a co-author of Ecology (Oxford UP, 1998) and our own Toward a Unified Ecology (2e 2015).

Timothy F. H. Allen is professor emeritus of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Thomas W. Hoekstra is director of Sustainability International in Loveland, Colorado.