Ecosystems

ISBN-13: 9780415332798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 205 str.

Gordon Dickinson

Opis

This introduction examines the development of the ecosystem concept, explains how ecosystems function and analyses the complex interactions between life and its physical environment.

Recenzje

'...Ecosystems makes for excellent reading. It would be extremely useful for students of biogeography and environmental management...' - Geography

'Ecosystems provides a comprehensive introduction to the understanding of the concept of the ecosystem and its unifying position between ecologyand environmenal science...an apposite text for students in tertiary education.' - Environmental Education and Information

'The authors of this text are to be congratulated in writing an introductory text which is very clearly written and manages to take the reader through the material in a progressive manner so that the reader is able by the end of the text to consider potentially quite complex systems... an introductory text I am able strongly to recommend. The publishers are also to be congratulated in producing this at a price which places it within the range of most students.' - Progress in Physical Geography

Spis treści

1. The Nature of Ecosystems  2. How Ecosystems Work: Operational and Support Functions  3. Energy Flow and Energetics  4. Material Cycles in Ecosystems  5. Ecosystems in High Stress Environments: Meeting Environmental Challenges  6. The Role of Disturbance and Succession in Ecosystem Functioning  7. Life in a Crowd: Productive and Intermediate Ecosystems  8. Biomes: World Ecosystem Types  9. Human Impacts on Ecosystems: Humans as an Ecological Factor  10. Large Scale Impacts on Ecosystems  11. Global Environmental Change: Ecosystem Response and Biosphere Impacts

O autorze

Gordon Dickinson is a senior lecturer in Geography at the University of Glasgow and Kevin Murphy is a senior lecturer in Evolutionary and Environmental Biology at the University of Glasgow.