Animals, plants, and soils interact with one another, with the terrestrial spheres, and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this 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,...