Foundations Of Ecology

Author : Leslie A. Real,James H. Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226182100

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Foundations of Ecology by Leslie A. Real,James H. Brown Pdf

Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today. The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organized in six sections: foundational papers, theoretical advances, synthetic statements, methodological developments, field studies, and ecological experiments. Selections range from Connell's elegant account of experiments with barnacles to Watt's encyclopedic natural history, from a visionary exposition by Grinnell of the concept of niche to a seminal essay by Hutchinson on diversity. Six original essays by contemporary ecologists and a historian of ecology place the selections in context and discuss their continued relevance to current research. This combination of classic papers and fresh commentaries makes Foundations of Ecology both a convenient reference to papers often cited today and an essential guide to the intellectual and conceptual roots of the field. Published with the Ecological Society of America.

Author : Thomas E. Miller,Joseph Travis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780226125367

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Foundations of Ecology II by Thomas E. Miller,Joseph Travis Pdf

A sweeping overview of key advances in the field of ecology over the latter half of the twentieth century. For three decades, Foundations of Ecology, edited by Leslie A. Real and James H. Brown, has served as an essential primer for graduate students and practicing ecologists, giving them access to the classic papers that laid the foundations of modern ecology alongside commentaries by noted ecologists. Ecology has continued to evolve, and ecologists Thomas E. Miller and Joseph Travis offer here a freshly edited guide for a new generation of researchers. The period of 1970 to 1995 was a time of tremendous change in all areas of this discipline--from an increased rigor for experimental design and analysis and the reevaluation of paradigms to new models for understanding, to theoretical advances. Foundations of Ecology II includes facsimiles of forty-six papers from this period alongside expert commentaries that discuss a total of fifty-three key studies, addressing topics of diversity, predation, complexity, competition, coexistence, extinction, productivity, resources, distribution, and abundance. The result is more than a catalog of historic firsts; this book offers diverse perspectives on the foundational papers that led to today's ecological work.

Author : Society for Ecological Restoration International
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781610916974

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Foundations of Restoration Ecology by Society for Ecological Restoration International Pdf

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Author : Lance H. Gunderson,Craig Reece Allen,C. S. Holling
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 496 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781610911337

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Foundations of Ecological Resilience by Lance H. Gunderson,Craig Reece Allen,C. S. Holling Pdf

Ecological resilience provides a theoretical foundation for understanding how complex systems adapt to and recover from localized disturbances like hurricanes, fires, pest outbreaks, and floods, as well as large-scale perturbations such as climate change. Ecologists have developed resilience theory over the past three decades in an effort to explain surprising and nonlinear dynamics of complex adaptive systems. Resilience theory is especially important to environmental scientists for its role in underpinning adaptive management approaches to ecosystem and resource management. Foundations of Ecological Resilience is a collection of the most important articles on the subject of ecological resilience—those writings that have defined and developed basic concepts in the field and help explain its importance and meaning for scientists and researchers. The book’s three sections cover articles that have shaped or defined the concepts and theories of resilience, including key papers that broke new conceptual ground and contributed novel ideas to the field; examples that demonstrate ecological resilience in a range of ecosystems; and articles that present practical methods for understanding and managing nonlinear ecosystem dynamics. Foundations of Ecological Resilience is an important contribution to our collective understanding of resilience and an invaluable resource for students and scholars in ecology, wildlife ecology, conservation biology, sustainability, environmental science, public policy, and related fields.

Author : Thomas E. Miller,Joseph Travis
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 858 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226125534

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Foundations of Ecology II by Thomas E. Miller,Joseph Travis Pdf

The classic papers that laid the foundations of modern ecology alongside commentaries by noted ecologists. The period of 1970 to 1995 was a time of tremendous change in all areas of ecology—from an increased rigor for experimental design and analysis to the reevaluation of paradigms, new models for understanding, and theoretical advances. Edited by ecologists Thomas E. Miller and Joseph Travis, Foundations of Ecology II includes facsimiles of forty-six papers from this period alongside expert commentaries that discuss a total of fifty-three key studies, addressing topics of diversity, predation, complexity, competition, coexistence, extinction, productivity, resources, distribution, abundance, and conservation. The result is more than a catalog of historic firsts; this book offers diverse perspectives on the foundational papers that led to today’s ecological work. Like this book’s 1991 predecessor, Foundations of Ecology edited by Leslie A. Real and James H. Brown, Foundations of Ecology II promises to be the essential primer for graduate students and practicing ecologists for decades to come.

Author : Vicenç Méndez,Daniel Campos,Frederic Bartumeus
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642390104

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Stochastic Foundations in Movement Ecology by Vicenç Méndez,Daniel Campos,Frederic Bartumeus Pdf

This book presents the fundamental theory for non-standard diffusion problems in movement ecology. Lévy processes and anomalous diffusion have shown to be both powerful and useful tools for qualitatively and quantitatively describing a wide variety of spatial population ecological phenomena and dynamics, such as invasion fronts and search strategies. Adopting a self-contained, textbook-style approach, the authors provide the elements of statistical physics and stochastic processes on which the modeling of movement ecology is based and systematically introduce the physical characterization of ecological processes at the microscopic, mesoscopic and macroscopic levels. The explicit definition of these levels and their interrelations is particularly suitable to coping with the broad spectrum of space and time scales involved in bio-ecological problems. Including numerous exercises (with solutions), this text is aimed at graduate students and newcomers in this field at the interface of theoretical ecology, mathematical biology and physics.

Author : Leslie A. Real,James H. Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1991-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226705935

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Foundations of Ecology by Leslie A. Real,James H. Brown Pdf

Assembled here for the first time in one volume are forty classic papers that have laid the foundations of modern ecology. Whether by posing new problems, demonstrating important effects, or stimulating new research, these papers have made substantial contributions to an understanding of ecological processes, and they continue to influence the field today. The papers span nearly nine decades of ecological research, from 1887 on, and are organized in six sections: foundational papers, theoretical advances, synthetic statements, methodological developments, field studies, and ecological experiments. Selections range from Connell's elegant account of experiments with barnacles to Watt's encyclopedic natural history, from a visionary exposition by Grinnell of the concept of niche to a seminal essay by Hutchinson on diversity. Six original essays by contemporary ecologists and a historian of ecology place the selections in context and discuss their continued relevance to current research. This combination of classic papers and fresh commentaries makes Foundations of Ecology both a convenient reference to papers often cited today and an essential guide to the intellectual and conceptual roots of the field. Published with the Ecological Society of America.

Author : Oswald J. Schmitz
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Science
ISBN : 1597265985

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Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation by Oswald J. Schmitz Pdf

Meeting today’s environmental challenges requires a new way of thinking about the intricate dependencies between humans and nature. Ecology and Ecosystem Conservation provides students and other readers with a basic understanding of the fundamental principles of ecological science and their applications, offering an essential overview of the way ecology can be used to devise strategies to conserve the health and functioning of ecosystems. The book begins by exploring the need for ecological science in understanding current environmental issues and briefly discussing what ecology is and isn’t. Subsequent chapters address critical issues in conservation and show how ecological science can be applied to them. The book explores questions such as: • What is the role of ecological science in decision making? • What factors govern the assembly of ecosystems and determine their response to various stressors? • How does Earth’s climate system function and determine the distribution of life on Earth? • What factors control the size of populations? • How does fragmentation of the landscape affect the persistence of species on the landscape? • How does biological diversity influence ecosystem processes? The book closes with a final chapter that addresses the need not only to understand ecological science, but to put that science into an ecosystem conservation ethics perspective.

Author : Michael L. Morrison,Leonard A. Brennan,Bruce G. Marcot,William M. Block,Kevin S. McKelvey
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781421439198

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Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology by Michael L. Morrison,Leonard A. Brennan,Bruce G. Marcot,William M. Block,Kevin S. McKelvey Pdf

A major advancement in understanding the factors underlying wildlife-habitat relationships, Foundations for Advancing Animal Ecology will be an invaluable resource to professionals and practitioners in natural resource management in public and private sectors, including state and federal agencies, non-governmental organizations, and environmental consultants.

Author : Arran Gare
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781134866137

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The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization by Arran Gare Pdf

The global ecological crisis is the greatest challenge humanity has ever had to confront, and humanity is failing. The triumph of the neo-liberal agenda, together with a debauched ‘scientism’, has reduced nature and people to nothing but raw materials, instruments and consumers to be efficiently managed in a global market dominated by corporate managers, media moguls and technocrats. The arts and the humanities have been devalued, genuine science has been crippled, and the quest for autonomy and democracy undermined. The resultant trajectory towards global ecological destruction appears inexorable, and neither governments nor environmental movements have significantly altered this, or indeed, seem able to. The Philosophical Foundations of Ecological Civilization is a wide-ranging and scholarly analysis of this failure. This book reframes the dynamics of the debate beyond the discourses of economics, politics and techno-science. Reviving natural philosophy to align science with the humanities, it offers the categories required to reform our modes of existence and our institutions so that we augment, rather than undermine, the life of the ecosystems of which we are part. From this philosophical foundation, the author puts forth a manifesto for transforming our culture into one which could provide an effective global environmental movement and provide the foundations for a global ecological civilization.

Author : Felisa A. Smith,John L. Gittleman,James H. Brown
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226115504

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Foundations of Macroecology by Felisa A. Smith,John L. Gittleman,James H. Brown Pdf

Macroecology is an approach to science that emphasizes the description and explanation of patterns and processes at large spatial and temporal scales. Some scientists liken it to seeing the forest through the trees, giving the proverbial phrase an ecological twist. The term itself was first introduced to the modern literature by James H. Brown and Brian A. Maurer in a 1989 paper, and it is Brown’s classic 1995 study, Macroecology, that is credited with inspiring the broad-scale subfield of ecology. But as with all subfields, many modern-day elements of macroecology are implicit in earlier works dating back decades, even centuries. Foundations of Macroecology charts the evolutionary trajectory of these concepts—from the species-area relationship and the latitudinal gradient of species richness to the relationship between body size and metabolic rate—through forty-six landmark papers originally published between 1920 and 1998. Divided into two parts—“Macroecology before Macroecology” and “Dimensions of Macroecology”—the collection also takes the long view, with each paper accompanied by an original commentary from a contemporary expert in the field that places it in a broader context and explains its foundational role. Providing a solid, coherent assessment of the history, current state, and potential future of the field, Foundations of Macroecology will be an essential text for students and teachers of ecology alike.

Author : Eugene Pleasants Odum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Ecology
ISBN : STANFORD:36105032269297

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Fundamentals of Ecology by Eugene Pleasants Odum Pdf

Author : Gregory John Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521804329

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The Science of the Struggle for Existence by Gregory John Cooper Pdf

An examination of longstanding foundational controversies in the philosophy of ecology.

Author : Warwick Fox
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0791427757

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Toward a Transpersonal Ecology by Warwick Fox Pdf

In this book I advance an argument concerning the nature of the deep ecology approach to ecophilosophy. In order to advance this argument in as thorough a manner as possible, I present it within the context of a comprehensive overview of the writings on deep ecology.

Author : John A. Wiens
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Science
ISBN : 0231126816

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Foundation Papers in Landscape Ecology by John A. Wiens Pdf

The editors begin with articles that illuminate the discipline's diverse scientific foundations, such as L.