Ecosystems [electronic resource] : a functional approach / Gordon Dickinson and Kevin Murphy.
Series: Routledge introductions to environment seriesPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.Description: xvii, 190 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780203132487
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [177]-181) and index.
ch. 1. The nature of ecosystems -- ch. 2. How ecosystems work : operational and support functions -- ch. 3. Energy flow and energetics -- ch. 4. Material cycles in ecosystems -- ch. 5. Ecosystems in high stress environments : meeting environmental challenges -- ch. 6. The role of disturbance and succession in ecosystem functioning -- ch. 7. Life in a crowd : productive and intermediate ecosystems -- ch. 8. Human impacts on ecosystems -- ch. 9. Global enviromental change : ecosystem response and evolution.
Also available in print edition.
Electronic reproduction. [Boca Raton, Fla. : CRC Press, 2012]. PDF file created from digital scan of print book.