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Patch Dynamics (Paperback)
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Patch Dynamics (Paperback)
Series: Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, 96
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From the preface by Joel E. Cohen: "A century from now humanity
will live in a managed - or mismanaged - global garden. We are
debating the need to preserve tropical forests. Farming of the sea
is providing an increasing part of our fish supply. We are
beginning to control atmospheric emissions. In 100 years, we shall
use novel farming practices and genetic engineering of bacteria to
manipulate the methane production of rice fields. The continental
shelf will be providing food, energy, possibly even living space.
To make such intensive management possible will require massive
improvements in data collection and analysis, and especially in our
concepts. A century hence we will live on a wired earth: the oceans
and the crust of the earth will receive the same comprehensive
monitoring now devoted to weather. As the peoples of currently
developing countries increase their levels of wealth, the need for
global management will become irresistible as impatience with the
accidents of nature and intolerance of mismanagement of the
environment - especially of living resources - grow. Our control of
physical perturbations and chemical inputs to the environment will
be judged by the consequences to living organisms and biological
communities. How can we obtain the factual and theoretical
foundation needed to move from our present, fragmented knowledge
and limited abilities to a managed, global garden?" This problem
was addressed in the lectures and workshops of a summer school on
patch dynamics at Cornell University. The school emphasized the
analysis and interpretation of spatial patterns in terrestrial and
marine environments. This book contains the course material of this
school, combining general reviews with specific applications.
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