Background of Ecology Concept and Theory

Name: Background of Ecology Concept and Theory
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ISBN: 9780521270878

ISBN-10: 0521270871

ISBN-13: 9780521270878

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Authors: Robert P. McIntosh, H. J. B. Birks, J. A. Wiens

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The Background of Ecology is a critical and up-to-date review of the origins and development of ecology, with emphasis on the major concepts and theories shared in the ecological traditions of plant and animal ecology, limnology, and oceanography. The work traces developments in each of these somewhat isolated areas and identifies, where possible, parallels or convergences among them. Dr McIntosh describes how ecology emerged as a science in the context of nineteenth-century natural histor

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List price: $108.00
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 9/26/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.06" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

John P. Smol is a professor in the Biology Department at Queen's University (Canada), with a cross-appointment at the School of Environmental Studies. He co-directs the Paleoecological Environmental Assessment and Research Lab (PEARL). Professor Smol is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology and holds the Canada Research Chair in Environmental Change.William M. Last is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences at University of Manitoba (Canada) and is co-editor of the Journal of Paleolimnology.



Preface


Acknowledgments



Antecedents of ecology


A transformed natural history


What is ecology?


Sources of ecology seen by biologists


Sources of ecology seen by historians


Who founded ecology?


Self-conscious ecology



The crystallization of ecology


Nuclei for ecology


Plant ecology, physiology, and plant geography


Marine ecology


Limnology


Terrestrial animal ecology


The institutionalization of ecology



Dynamic ecology


Early community and equilibrium concepts


Dynamic plant ecology


Animal community dynamics


Aquatic communities


Paleoecology


Equilibrium



Quantitative community ecology


Biogeographical origins


Marine biology


Limnology


Terrestrial plant ecology


Problems of quantitative community ecology



Population ecology


Physiological ecology and population ecology


Definition and antecedents of population ecology


Population census and survey


Theoretical population ecology


Theoretical ecology, competition, and equilibrium



Ecosystem ecology, systems ecology, and big biology


Ecosystem ecology


Systems ecology


The International Biological Program


Systems analysis


Recent ecosystem ecology



Theoretical approaches to ecology


The revolution in theoretical ecology


Ecologists as philosophers


Ecological theory and evolution


Community theory


Ecological laws and principles


Theoretical mathematical ecology



Ecology and environment


Ecology and the conservation movement


Nature preserves and surveys


Human ecology


Ecology and the environmental movement


References


Name index


Subject index