Toward a Unified Ecology

Timothy F. H. Allen and Thomas W. Hoekstra

November, 1993
Paper, 384 pages, illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-06919-9
$51.50 / £30.50

Cloth, 384 pages, illus
ISBN: 978-0-231-06918-2
$99.50 / £58.50

Offers the best general summary of the field, with a view toward fostering common disciplinary goals. Allen and Hoekstra begin with hierarchy theory as a basic premise and explain that the conventional 'levels' (ecosystems, landscapes, communities, populations, organisms) are not levels in themselves but criteria for observation.

Related Subjects

• Ecology
• Environmental Sciences

Series

• Complexity in Ecological Systems

About the Author

Timothy F. H. Allen is professor of botany at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Thomas W. Hoekstra is assistant director for research at the Rocky Mountain Forest and Range Experiment Station for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service.

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