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Macroecology / James H. Brown

Por: Brown, James H [autor/a].
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 Libro impreso(a) Editor: Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press, 1995Descripción: xiii, 269 páginas : ilustraciones, mapas ; 23 centímetros.ISBN: 0226076156; 9780226076157.Tema(s): Ecología | Macroecología | Nicho (Ecología) | Biogeografía | Ecología animal | Ecología humanaClasificación: 574.5 / B71 Nota de bibliografía: Incluye bibliografía: páginas 237-263 e índice: páginas 265-269 Número de sistema: 9601Resumen:
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While much ecological research is narrowly focused and experimental, providing detailed information that cannot be used to generalize from one ecological community or time period to another, macroecology draws on data from many disciplines to create a less detailed but much broader picture with greater potential for generalization. Integrating data from ecology, systematics, evolutionary biology, paleobiology, and biogeography to investigate problems that could only be addressed on a much smaller scale by traditional approaches, macroecology provides a richer, more complete understanding of how patterns of life have moved across the earth over time. Brown also demonstrates the advantages of macroecology for conservation, showing how it allows scientists to look beyond endangered species and ecological communities to consider the long history and large geographic scale of human impacts. An important reassessment of the direction of ecology by one of the most influential thinkers in the field, this work will shape future research in ecology and other disciplines.

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Incluye bibliografía: páginas 237-263 e índice: páginas 265-269

While much ecological research is narrowly focused and experimental, providing detailed information that cannot be used to generalize from one ecological community or time period to another, macroecology draws on data from many disciplines to create a less detailed but much broader picture with greater potential for generalization. Integrating data from ecology, systematics, evolutionary biology, paleobiology, and biogeography to investigate problems that could only be addressed on a much smaller scale by traditional approaches, macroecology provides a richer, more complete understanding of how patterns of life have moved across the earth over time. Brown also demonstrates the advantages of macroecology for conservation, showing how it allows scientists to look beyond endangered species and ecological communities to consider the long history and large geographic scale of human impacts. An important reassessment of the direction of ecology by one of the most influential thinkers in the field, this work will shape future research in ecology and other disciplines. eng

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