Pattern and Process in a Forested Ecosystem: Disturbance, Development and the Steady State Based on the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study

by F.Herbert Bormann, Gene E. Likens, Gene E. Bormann, F. Herbert; Likens

Book Overview

The advent of ecosystem ecology has created great difficulties for ecologists primarily trained as biologists, since inevitably as the field grew, it absorbed components of other disciplines relatively foreign to most ecologists yet vital to the understanding of the structure and function of ecosystems. From the point of view of the biological ecologist struggling to understand the enormous complexity of the biological functions within an ecosystem,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387943447
• ISBN13: 9780387943442
• Release Date: August 1994
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"