Ecology: From Ecosystem to BiosphereScience Publishers, 2003 M01 10 - 472 pages Eleven plants were chosen so as to cover a wide range of biological characteristics (perennial, annual, autogamous, allogamous, etc.) in this study. Three chapters on methodology complement these studies. The first is devoted to the use of biological and molecular markers to analyse the diversity of collections, the second addresses data analysis, and the third describes a method for constituting core collectaions based on maximization of variability. |
Contents
The natures of ecology | 1 |
Part I | 13 |
Approaches and paradigms of ecosystem ecology | 36 |
Methods of studying ecosystems | 64 |
Part II | 83 |
Abiotic factors and structure of ecosystems | 106 |
Hierarchies levels of organization | 130 |
Spatial and temporal scales and their consequences | 145 |
Matter and energy flows in ecosystems | 245 |
Biological diversity and ecosystem functioning | 281 |
The biogeochemical cycles | 325 |
Global ecology dynamics of the biosphere | 353 |
The climatic system and its variability | 365 |
Biosphereatmosphere interactions and their | 390 |
Responses of ecosystems to climatic changes knowing | 413 |
Selected Bibliography | 449 |
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