Geoecology An Evolutionary Approach
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| Author | : Richard Huggett |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 348 |
| Release | : 2002-09-11 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1134882947 |
Animals, plants and soils interact with one another, with the terrestrial spheres, and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this rich interaction creates landscape systems or geoecosystems. Geoecology investigates the structure and function of geoecosystems, their components and their environment. The author develops a simple dynamic systems model, the `brash' equation, to form the conceptual framework for the book suggesting an `ecological' and `evolutionary' approach. Exploring internal of `ecological' interactions between geoecosystems and their near-surface environments - the atmosphere, hydrosphere, toposhere, and lithosphere - and external influences, both geological and cosmic, Geoecology presents geoecosystems as dynamic entities constantly responding to changes within themselves and their surroundings. An `evolutionary' view emerges of geoecological systems, and the animals, plants, and soils comprising them, providing a new way of thinking for the whole environmental complex and the rich web of interdependencies contained therein.
| Author | : Richard John Huggett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1995 |
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| Author | : Richard J. Huggett |
| Publisher | : Psychology Press |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 9780415086899 |
Animals, plants, and soils interact with one another. They also interact with the terrestrial spheres - the atmosphere, hydrosphere, toposphere, and lithosphere - and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this rich interaction creates landscape systems or geoecosystems. Geoecology investigates the structure and function of geoecosystems. A new 'evolutionary' view of geoecological systems, and the animals, plants and soils comprising them, emerges: geoecosystems are seen as dynamic entities, organized on a hierarchical basis, that perpetually respond to changes within themselves and in their surroundings. Presenting a new ecological and evolutionary approach to the study of geoecological change, Geoecology will interest a wide range of environmental scientists, geographers, ecologists, and pedologists.
| Author | : L. Merrin Emlen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 463 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Ecology |
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| Author | : John Merritt Emlen |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 493 |
| Release | : 1973 |
| Genre | : Ecology |
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| Author | : C. Barry Cox |
| Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
| Total Pages | : 506 |
| Release | : 2016-05-31 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 1118968581 |
Through eight successful editions, and over nearly 40 years, Biogeography: An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach has provided a thorough and comprehensive exploration of the varied scientific disciplines and research that are essential to understanding the subject. The text has been praised for its solid background in historical biogeography and basic biology, that is enhanced and illuminated by discussions of current research. This new edition incorporates the exciting changes of the recent years, and presents a thoughtful exploration of the research and controversies that have transformed our understanding of the biogeography of the world. It also clearly identifies the three quite different arenas of biogeographical research: continental biogeography, island biogeography and marine biogeography. It is the only current textbook with full coverage of marine biogeography. It reveals how the patterns of life that we see today have been created by the two great Engines of the Planet - the Geological Engine, plate tectonics, which alters the conditions of life on the planet, and the Biological Engine, evolution, which responds to these changes by creating new forms and patterns of life.
| Author | : Christopher Barry Cox |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Biogeography |
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| Author | : |
| Publisher | : Eric R. Pianka |
| Total Pages | : 528 |
| Release | : 2011 |
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Finally, an eBook version of this now classic textbook has become available. Largely based on the 6th edition, published in 2000, this version is competitively priced. Written by well-known ecologist Eric R. Pianka, a student of the late Robert H. MacArthur, this timeless treatment of evolutionary ecology, first published in 1974, will endure for many decades to come. Basic principles of ecology are framed in an evolutionary perspective.
| Author | : James G. Schmitt |
| Publisher | : Geological Society of America |
| Total Pages | : 62 |
| Release | : 2017-03-16 |
| Genre | : Science |
| ISBN | : 0813725283 |
The Marias River canyon in north-central Montana served during late Holocene time as a locus of human activity in an ecologically and geologically dynamic landscape. This volume presents the results of interdisciplinary research, synergistically combining geologic, ecologic, and archaeologic approaches focused on examining the ways that Late Precontact peoples depended upon the animal (bison) and plant resources of a changing landscape subject to erosion and sediment transport as dominant surficial processes. Connections between erosion and deposition, plant community distribution, large mammal niches, and native peoples' place in the Marias River canyon geoecosystem, as well as the role of tributary-junction alluvial fans as repositories of archaeological materials and vertebrate faunal remains are emphasized.
| Author | : J. R. Krebs |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 494 |
| Release | : 1978 |
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