PATTERN AND PROCESS IN A FORESTED ECOSYSTEM by F.Herbert Bormann, Gene E. Likens ( 9780387943442 )

Item Details

Title:

PATTERN AND PROCESS IN A FORESTED ECOSYSTEM
DISTURBANCE, DEVELOPMENT AND THE STEADY STATE BASED ON THE HUBBARD BROOK ECOSYSTEM STUDY

By:

F.Herbert Bormann, Gene E. Likens

Format:

Paperback

List price:	£74.99
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for further information.

ISBN 10:

0387943447

ISBN 13:

9780387943442

Publisher:

SPRINGER-VERLAG NEW YORK INC.

Pub. date:

19 August, 1994

Edition:

1st ed. 1979. 2nd printing 1994

Pages:

272

Description:

This volume draws on the Hubbard Brook Experiment to present an integrated picture of the structure, function, and development over time of the northern hardwood ecosystem in northern New England.

Synopsis:

The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the field grew, it absorbed components of other disciplines relatively foreign to most ecologists yet vital to the understanding of the structure and function of ecosystems. From the point of view of the biological ecologist struggling to understand the enormous complexity of the biological functions within an ecosystem, the added necessity of integrating biology with geochemis- try, hydrology, micrometeorology, geomorphology, pedology, and applied sciences (like silviculture and land use management) often has appeared as an impossible requirement. Ecologists have frequently responded by limiting their perspective to biology with the result that the modeling of species interactions is sometimes considered as modeling ecosystems, or modeling the living fraction of the ecosystems is considered as modeling whole ecosystems. Such of course is not the case, since understanding the structure and function of ecosystems requires sound understanding of inanimate as well as animate processes and often neither can be under- stood without the other.About 15 years ago, a view of ecology somewhat different from most then prevailing, coupled with a strong dose of naivete and a sense of exploration, lead us to believe that consideration of the inanimate side of ecosystem function rather than being just one more annoying complexity might provide exceptional advantages in the study of ecosystems. To examine this possibility, we took two steps which occurred more or less simultaneously.

Illustrations:

28 black & white illustrations, biography

Publication:

Imprint:

Springer-Verlag New York Inc.

Returns:

Non-returnable

Some other items by this author:

AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO AQUATIC ECOLOGY (HB)

AN ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO AQUATIC ECOLOGY (PB)

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY (PB)

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY OF A FORESTED ECOSYSTEM (HB)