Toward a Unified Ecology
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Toward a Unified Ecology

  1. English
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eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

Toward a Unified Ecology

About this book

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.

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Yes, you can access Toward a Unified Ecology by Timothy F. H. Allen,Thomas W. Hoekstra in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Biological Sciences & Ecology. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Table of contents

  1. CoverĀ 
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. ContentsĀ 
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Principles of Ecological Integration
  10. 2. The Landscape Criterion
  11. 3. The Ecosystem Criterion
  12. 4. The Community Criterion
  13. 5. The Organism Criterion
  14. 6. The Population Criterion
  15. 7. The Biome and Biosphere Criteria
  16. 8. Narratives for Complexity
  17. 9. Management of Ecological Systems
  18. 10. A Unified Approach to Basic Research
  19. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. References
  22. Index