The Inadequate Environment - Nitrogen and the Abundance of Animals (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993)

Ecology is characterized by a rapidly growing complexity and diversity of facts, aspects, examples, and observations. What is badly needed is the development of common patterns, of rules that, as in other sciences such as physics, can more generally explain the increasing complexity and variability we observe. Tom White, being one of the "seniors" in ecology, makes such an attempt in his book. the pattern he shows and explains with numerous examples from the entire animal kingdom is a universal hunger for nitrogen, a misery that drives the ecology of all organisms. He advocates that the awareness of this fundamental role that the limitation of nitrogen plays in the ecology of all organisms should be as a much part of each ecologis's intellectual equipment as is the awareness of the fact of evolution by means of natural selection. His claim is that not "enery" but "nitrogen" is the most limited "currency" in the animal world for the production and growth of their young.

General

Imprint:	Springer-Verlag
Country of origin:	Germany
Release date:	December 2011
First published:	1993
Authors:	Thomas C. R. White
Dimensions:	235 x 155 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	425
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
ISBN-13:	978-3-642-78301-2
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Zoology & animal sciences > Animal physiology
LSN:	3-642-78301-5
Barcode:	9783642783012

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