Toward a Unified Ecology

Auteur

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.

Texte du rabat

Presenta a new synthesis of the authors' core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management.

Contenu

Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. The Principles of Ecological Integration
2. The Landscape Criterion
3. The Ecosystem Criterion
4. The Community Criterion
5. The Organism Criterion
6. The Population Criterion
7. The Biome and Biosphere Criteria
8. Narratives for Complexity
9. Management of Ecological Systems
10. A Unified Approach to Basic Research
    Conclusion
    Notes
    References
    Index