In all fields of science today, data are collected and theories are
developed and published faster than scientists can keep up with,
let alone thoroughly digest. In ecology the fact that practitioners
tend to be divided between such subdisciplines as aquatic and
terrestrial ecology, as well as between popula tion, community, and
ecosystem ecology, makes it even harder for them to keep up with
all relevant research. Ecologists specializing in one sub
discipline are not always aware of progress in another
subdiscipline that relates to their own. Syntheses are frequently
needed that pull together large bodies of information and organize
them in ways that makes them more coherent, and thus more
understandable. I have tried to perform this task of integration
for the subject area that encompasses the interrelationships
between the dynamics of ecological food webs and the cycling of
nutrients. I believe this area cuts across many of the
subdisciplines of ecology and is pivotal to our progress in
understanding ecosystems and in dealing with human impacts on the
environment. Many current ecological problems involve human
disturbances of both food webs and the nutrients that cycle through
them. Little progress can be made towards elucidating the complex
feedback relations inherent in the study of nutrient cycles in
ecological systems without the tools of mathematics and computer
modelling. These tools are therefore liberally used throughout the
book."
General
| Imprint: |
Chapman and Hall
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Population and Community Biology Series, 9 |
| Release date: |
October 1991 |
| First published: |
1992 |
| Authors: |
Donald L. DeAngelis
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 155 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Paperback
|
| Pages: |
288 |
| Edition: |
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1992 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-412-29840-0 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Science & Mathematics >
Biology, life sciences >
General
|
| LSN: |
0-412-29840-6 |
| Barcode: |
9780412298400 |
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