Bücher der Reihe Ecology & Environment

The book presents an integration of existing ecosystem theories in such a comprehensive way as to enable a full ecological and theoretical pattern to be presented. It shows that ecosystems and their reactions may be understood, provided that all basic systems ecology is applied to different aspects of the properties of ecosystems.

Many excellent contributions to a more profound understanding of ecosystems have been launched during the last two decades, but if you do not know the field, it looks as if all the presented ecosystem theories are in complete discord with each other.

Lovelock illustrated this argument with a wealth of mechanistic feedback processes, as we know them to occur in ecosystems. The Gaia-hypothesis triggered a great deal of thought and discussion about what we actually require as an environment. We know we cannot ask for this without protecting their environment, which is also our environment.

Lovelock illustrated this argument with a wealth of mechanistic feedback processes, as we know them to occur in ecosystems. The Gaia-hypothesis triggered a great deal of thought and discussion about what we actually require as an environment. We know we cannot ask for this without protecting their environment, which is also our environment.