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A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. (Mpb-23), Volume 23

A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems. (Mpb-23), Volume 23

O'Neill, Robert V.
Deangelis, Donald Lee
Waide, J. B.

Paperback

Series: Monographs in Population Biology, Book 23

Environmental Studies

ISBN10: 0691084378
ISBN13: 9780691084374
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Nov 21 1986
Pages: 262
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.45 Depth: 8.52
Language: English

Ecosystem is an intuitively appealing concept to most ecologists, but, in spite of its widespread use, the term remains diffuse and ambiguous. The authors of this book argue that previous attempts to define the concept have been derived from particular viewpoints to the exclusion of others equally possible. They offer instead a more general line of thought based on hierarchy theory. Their contribution should help to counteract the present separation of subdisciplines in ecology and to bring functional and population/community ecologists closer to a common approach.

Developed as a way of understanding highly complex organized systems, hierarchy theory has at its center the idea that organization results from differences in process rates. To the authors the theory suggests an objective way of decomposing ecosystems into their component parts. The results thus obtained offer a rewarding method for integrating various schools of ecology.

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