Aryana Libris

Author : Lévêque Christian
Title : Ecology From ecosystem to biosphere
Year : 2003

Link download : Leveque_Christian_-_Ecology.zip

Preface. The average person is often confused between political and scientific ecology. There is, moreover, a confusion between environmental sciences and ecology, which is sometimes called on to answer questions on topics beyond its expertise. The lack of visibility of scientific ecology lies also in the very wide field it is supposed to cover. It ranges from evolutionary sciences to population biology and now to biosphere dynamics. A number of other scientific disciplines are also involved, such as zoology, botany, geology, geomorphology, climatology, hydrology, and chemistry. In such a context, what is the status of ecology as compared to more established sciences? Is it a metadiscipline whose main goal is to synthesize the scientific information provided by other disciplines ? Or is it a full discipline that has developed its own concepts and theories ? One concrete response to the above questions is to provide a general overview including the origins, methods, and concepts, in other words, the paradigms, of ecosystem ecology. This holistic science was built as a systemic approach in order to develop theories and methods to understand the temporal and spatial dynamics of ecosystem components. ...