Toward a Unified Ecology (Complexity in Ecological Systems)

Allen, Timothy; Hoekstra, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0231168896 / ISBN 13: 9780231168892

Published by Columbia University Press, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Toward a Unified Ecology (Complexity in Ecological Systems)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0231168896
• ISBN 13: 9780231168892
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

The first edition of Toward a Unified Ecology was ahead of its time. For the second edition, the authors present a new synthesis of their core ideas on evaluating communities, organisms, populations, biomes, models, and management. The book now places greater emphasis on post-normal critiques, cognizant of ever-present observer values in the system. The problem it addresses is how to work holistically on complex things that cannot be defined, and this book continues to build an approach to the problem of scaling in ecosystems. Provoked by complexity theory, the authors add a whole new chapter on the central role of narrative in science and how models improve them. The book takes data and modeling seriously, with a sophisticated philosophy of science.

About the Author

Timothy F. H. Allen is Professor of Botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of A Hierarchical Concept of Ecosystems (Princeton UP, 1986), and a co-author of Ecology (Oxford UP, 1998) and our own Toward a Unified Ecology (2e 2015).