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| Author | : Frank N. Egerton |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 289 |
| Release | : 2012-07-17 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0520953630 |
Ecology is the centerpiece of many of the most important decisions that face humanity. Roots of Ecology documents the deep ancestry of this now enormously important science from the early ideas of Herodotos, Plato, and Pliny, up through those of Linnaeus and Darwin, to those that inspired Ernst Haeckel's mid-nineteenth-century neologism ecology. Based on a long-running series of regularly published columns, this important work gathers a vast literature illustrating the development of ecological and environmental concepts, ideas, and creative thought that has led to our modern view of ecology. Roots of Ecology should be on every ecologist's shelf.
| Author | : Hans de Kroon |
| Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2003-05-21 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9783540001850 |
In the course of evolution, a great variety of root systems have learned to overcome the many physical, biochemical and biological problems brought about by soil. This development has made them a fascinating object of scientific study. This volume gives an overview of how roots have adapted to the soil environment and which roles they play in the soil ecosystem. The text describes the form and function of roots, their temporal and spatial distribution, and their turnover rate in various ecosystems. Subsequently, a physiological background is provided for basic functions, such as carbon acquisition, water and solute movement, and for their responses to three major abiotic stresses, i.e. hard soil structure, drought and flooding. The volume concludes with the interactions of roots with other organisms of the complex soil ecosystem, including symbiosis, competition, and the function of roots as a food source.
| Author | : John Ernest Weaver |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 1910 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Jeremy Walker |
| Publisher | : Springer Nature |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 2020-07-14 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 9811539367 |
This book traces the interacting histories of the disciplines of ecology and economics, from their common origin in the ancient Greek concept of oikonomia, through their distinct encounters with energy physics, to the current obstruction of neoliberal economics to responses to the ecological and climate crisis of the so-called Anthropocene. Reconstructing their constitution as separate sciences in the era of fossil-fuelled industrial capitalism, the book offers an explanation of how the ecological sciences have moved from a position of critical collision with mainstream economics in the 1970s, to one of collusion with the project of permanent growth, in and through the thermal crisis of the biosphere.
| Author | : Scott Hess |
| Publisher | : University of Virginia Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0813932300 |
In William Wordsworth and the Ecology of Authorship, Scott Hess explores Wordsworth's defining role in establishing what he designates as "the ecology of authorship" a primarily middle-class, nineteenth-century conception of nature associated with aesthetics, high culture, individualism, and nation. Instead of viewing Wordsworth as an early ecologist, Hess places him within a context that is largely cultural and aesthetic. The supposedly universal Wordsworthian vision of nature, Hess argues, was in this sense specifically male, middle-class, professional, and culturally elite--factors that continue to shape the environmental movement today.
| Author | : Frank N. Egerton |
| Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
| Total Pages | : 288 |
| Release | : 2012-07-17 |
| Genre | : Nature |
| ISBN | : 0520271742 |
"Ecological questions are at the center of many of the most important decisions faced by humanity. Roots of Ecology documents the deep ancestry of this enormously important science from the early ideas of Herodotus, Plato, and Pliny; up through those of Linnaeus and Dawin, to those that inspired Ernst Haeckel's mid-nineteenth-century neologism ecology. Based on a long-running series of regularly published columns, this important work gathers a vast literature that illustrates the development of the ecological concepts, environmental ideas, and creative reasoning that have led to our modern view of ecology. Roots of Ecology should be on every ecologist's shelf."--Back cover.
| Author | : Donald Worster |
| Publisher | : Random House (NY) |
| Total Pages | : 426 |
| Release | : 1977 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Donald Worster |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 1994-06-24 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521468343 |
Nature's Economy is a wide-ranging investigation of ecology's past, first published in 1994.
| Author | : Frank N. Egerton |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2022 |
| Genre | : Ecology |
| ISBN | : 9780367691158 |
"Ecology grew from a minor science, in 1900, into a major discipline in the 20th century. This book describes this development. A dramatic increase in ecological knowledge was accompanied by the formation of ecological professional societies. Universities added ecologists to their faculties. And governments acknowledged the need for ecologists to advise on conservation of natural resources and to combat pollution. Ecology is still growing as a discipline and many local, regional and global environmental problems remain to be studied. Just how ecologists rose to these challenges is an exciting and inspiring narrative, which is the theme of this book"--
| Author | : David C. Coleman |
| Publisher | : Elsevier |
| Total Pages | : 404 |
| Release | : 2004-08-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0080472818 |
This fully revised and expanded edition of Fundamentals of Soil Ecology continues its holistic approach to soil biology and ecosystem function. Students and ecosystem researchers will gain a greater understanding of the central roles that soils play in ecosystem development and function. The authors emphasize the increasing importance of soils as the organizing center for all terrestrial ecosystems and provide an overview of theory and practice of soil ecology, both from an ecosystem and evolutionary biology point of view. This volume contains updated and greatly expanded coverage of all belowground biota (roots, microbes and fauna) and methods to identify and determine its distribution and abundance. New chapters are provided on soil biodiversity and its relationship to ecosystem processes, suggested laboratory and field methods to measure biota and their activities in ecosystems.. Contains over 60% new material and 150 more pages Includes new chapters on soil biodiversity and its relationship to ecosystem function Outlines suggested laboratory and field methods Incorporates new pedagogical features Combines theoretical and practical approaches
