Fundamental Processes in Ecology
An Earth Systems Approach
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 September 2007
- ISBN 9780199229062
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages196 pages
- Size 240x160x10 mm
- Weight 314 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 12 line and 19 halftone illustrations 0
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Short description:
This presents a new way to study ecosystems, resonant with current thinking in geobiology. It asks "what are the fundamental characteristics of living systems that might allow them to sustain life?" It shows how the idea of fundamental ecological processes can be developed at the systems level, specifically their involvement in control mechanisms.
MoreLong description:
Fundamental Processes in Ecology presents a way to study ecosystems that is not yet available in ecology textbooks but is resonant with current thinking in the emerging fields of geobiology and Earth System Science. It provides an alternative, process-based classification of ecology and proposes a truly planetary view of ecological science. To achieve this, it asks (and endeavours to answer) the question, "what are the fundamental ecological processes which would be found on any planet with Earth-like, carbon based, life?"
The author demonstrates how the idea of fundamental ecological processes can be developed at the systems level, specifically their involvement in control and feedback mechanisms. This approach allows us to reconsider basic ecological ideas such as energy flow, guilds, trade-offs, carbon cycling and photosynthesis; and to put these in a global context. In doing so, the book puts a much stronger emphasis on microorganisms than has traditionally been the case.
The integration of Earth System Science with ecology is vitally important if ecological science is to successfully contribute to the massive problems and future challenges associated with global change. Although the approach is heavily influenced by Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis, this is not a popular science book about Gaian theory. Instead it is written as an accessible text for graduate student seminar courses and researchers in the fields of ecology, earth system science, evolutionary biology, palaeontology, history of life, astrobiology, geology and physical geography.
Review from previous edition This is a remarkabe book at many levels...Put simply, this should be seen as a key text in any undergraduate ecology/environment course. It's one of the most interesting texts published for some time - a must-buy for the library.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part I. Introduction
Introducing the thought experiment
Part II. The Fundamental processes
Energy Flow
Multiple guilds
Tradeoffs and biodiversity
Ecological hypercycles - covering a planet with life
Merging of organismal and ecological physiology
Photosynthesis
Carbon sequestration
Part III. Emerging systems
Nutrient cycling as an emergent property
Historical contingency and the development of planetary ecosystems
From processes to systems
Glossary
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