A New Ecology
Systems Perspective
- 2nd Edition - August 30, 2019
- Authors: Soeren Nors Nielsen, Brian D. Fath, Simone Bastianoni, Joao C. Marques, Felix Muller, Bernard D. Patten, Robert E. Ulanowicz, Enzo Tiezzi
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 7 5 7 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 6 3 7 6 4 - 2
A New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic ope… Read more

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Request a sales quoteA New Ecology: Systems Perspective, Second Edition, gives an overview of the commonalities of all ecosystems from a variety of properties, including physical openness, ontic openness, directionality, connectivity, a complex dynamic for growth and development, and a complex dynamic response to disturbances. Each chapter details basic and characteristic properties that help the reader understand how they can be applied to explain a wide spectrum of current ecological research and environmental management applications.
- Contains revised, updated or redeveloped chapters that include the most current research and technology
- Reviews universal traits of ecosystems from multiple perspectives, giving the reader a complete overview of the systems perspective of ecology
- Offers broad examples of ecology as a systems science, from the history of science, to philosophy and the arts
- Brings together the systems perspective in a framework of four columns for greater understanding, including thermodynamics, network theory, hierarchy theory and biochemistry
- Contains new chapter on the application of the theory to environmental management
Ecologists, environmental scientists, environmental engineers, environmental managers, researchers in biodiversity
- No. of pages: 270
- Language: English
- Edition: 2
- Published: August 30, 2019
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444637574
- eBook ISBN: 9780444637642
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