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Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem - Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (Paperback, 1st ed. 1979. 2nd printing 1994)
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Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem - Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (Paperback, 1st ed. 1979. 2nd printing 1994)
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The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for
ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the
field grew, it absorbed components of other disciplines relatively
foreign to most ecologists yet vital to the understanding of the
structure and function of ecosystems. From the point of view of the
biological ecologist struggling to understand the enormous
complexity of the biological functions within an ecosystem, the
added necessity of integrating biology with geochemis try,
hydrology, micrometeorology, geomorphology, pedology, and applied
sciences (like silviculture and land use management) often has
appeared as an impossible requirement. Ecologists have frequently
responded by limiting their perspective to biology with the result
that the modeling of species interactions is sometimes considered
as modeling ecosystems, or modeling the living fraction of the
ecosystems is considered as modeling whole ecosystems. Such of
course is not the case, since understanding the structure and
function of ecosystems requires sound understanding of inanimate as
well as animate processes and often neither can be under stood
without the other. About 15 years ago, a view of ecology somewhat
different from most then prevailing, coupled with a strong dose of
naivete and a sense of exploration, lead us to believe that
consideration of the inanimate side of ecosystem function rather
than being just one more annoying complexity might provide
exceptional advantages in the study of ecosystems. To examine this
possibility, we took two steps which occurred more or less
simultaneously."
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