Ecology for environmental professionals:
If, as has been asserted, everything in nature is connected to everything else, it is a lesson yet to be reflected among environmental professions, especially those serving law and policy. Nowhere is the lack of integration more apparent than in the incorporation of sound ecological principles. Yet,...
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| Zusammenfassung: | If, as has been asserted, everything in nature is connected to everything else, it is a lesson yet to be reflected among environmental professions, especially those serving law and policy. Nowhere is the lack of integration more apparent than in the incorporation of sound ecological principles. Yet, comprehension of these principles is a prerequisite to establishing effective environmental programs, whether local or global. Ecology and environmental sciences range from cosmology to determining toxic effects in a biological system. In short, ecology is served by, and is itself a manifestation of, all the natural sciences. Ecology is further manifested in the social sciences, directly and indirectly. In this book, ecology and environmental sciences are presented to environmental professionals in terms relevant to all their endeavors. Today's ecologies emerge from the venerable scientific endeavor. Upon placing ecology in the hierarchy of natural sciences, this volume centers on the wealth of dimensions in which ecology is expressed. Extending beyond the three spatial dimensions and that of time, ecology enters those of holistic and reductionist vantages, the last reflected in abiotic and biotic detail. Dimensions serving environmental professions include the experimental, those arising from interrelationships with adaptation and evolution, and that of human ecology. Finally, there is the intellectual dimension: Ecology as one thread in the contemporary cultural tapestry into which environmental policy and law are being woven. Scrupulously avoiding superimposition of political stance, this unique volume serves anyone lacking scientific preparation who would take a stance, professional or personal. |
| Beschreibung: | XIII, 215 S. |
| ISBN: | 0899307450 |
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Figures and Tables ix
Preface xi
Introduction 1
PARTI THE BACKGROUND 5
Chapter 1. Science, Scientists, and Scientific Method 7
Chapter 2. The Scope of Ecology and Its Roles 23
PART II HABITATS, COMMUNITIES, AND ECOSYSTEMS:
THE HOLISTIC APPROACH 33
Chapter 3. Ecosystem as a Concept 35
Chapter 4. Global Ecosystems 41
Chapter 5. Ecosystems and the Law 49
PART HI ENERGY AND MATERIALS: THE ABIOTIC
COMPONENT 63
Chapter 6. Energy Flow 65
Chapter 7. Material Cycling and Ecosystem Structure 77
Chapter 8. Biogeochemical Cycles 89
viii Contents
PART IV STRATEGY AND THE BIOSPHERE: THE
FOURTH DIMENSION 103
Chapter 9. Cosmology and the History of Planet Earth 105
Chapter 10. Development and Evolution of Ecosystems 121
PART V LIFE ON PLANET EARTH: THE BIOTA 129
Chapter 11. Transition: Homeostasis and Limiting Factors 131
Chapter 12. Ecology of Aggregations 143
Chapter 13. Ecology, Adaptation, and Evolution 159
PART VI ECOLOGY AND THE POLITICOLEGAL
SYSTEM: THE CULTURAL DIMENSION 173
Chapter 14. The Niche of Homo sapiens sapiens 175
Chapter 15. Ecology and the Politicolegal System 185
Glossary 193
Principal Sources and Suggested Readings 205
Index 209
Figures and Tables
FIGURES
1.1 Theory of Integrative Levels: Levels of Organization among the
Natural Sciences 10
1.2 Theory of Integrative Levels: Scientific Black Boxes 11
TABLES
1.1 Selected Elements 13
1.2 Characteristics of Life 16
11.1 Elements Essential to Life 137
12.1 Statistical Functions of Populations and Corresponding Attributes
of Individuals 144
12.2 The Continuum of the Components of Behavior 148
13.1 Taxonomy: Organization of Living Beings—A Typical Example 165
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