 It is the systems so formed which, from the point of view of the ecologist, are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth. . . . These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the most various kinds and sizes. They form one category of the multitudinous...  Ecological Risk Assessment Issue Papers - Page 8-13by DIANE Publishing Company - 1995 - 566 pagesFull view - About this book
 | J. G. W. Jones - Cooking - 1973 - 408 pages
...unqualified term 'efficiency' is conceptual so is the term 'ecosystem'. Indeed Tansley (1935) wrote: 'These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the most various kinds and sizes.' In the terminology of thermodynamics natural, semi-natural and agricultural systems are ' nonequilibrium'... | |
 | Robert J. Naiman, Henri Décamps - Science - 1990 - 336 pages
...formed which. from the point of view of the ecologist. are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth — These ecosystems. as we may call them....the universe as a whole down to the atom. In this quotation (p. 299). which incidentally contains the first use of the word ecosystem in the English... | |
 | David Greenland, Lloyd Wesley Swift - Bioclimatology - 1990 - 100 pages
...Tansley's (1935) original definition recognized scale as an element of the ecosystem. He said (p. 299), "These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the most various kinds and sizes." Ecosystems are perceived and identified because they have a degree of resilience and resistance to... | |
 | Frank B. Golley - Science - 1993 - 278 pages
...formed which, from the point of view of the ecologist, are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth. These ecosystems, as we may call them,...range from the universe as a whole down to the atom. (Tansley, 1935, 299) Thus, Tansley's ecosystem concept identified a system that was: (1) an element... | |
 | Donald Worster - History - 1994 - 268 pages
...and the whole is an amalgamation of both living and nonliving components. Ecosystems, wrote Tansley, are of the most various kinds and sizes. They form...range from the universe as a whole down to the atom. The whole method of science ... is to isolate systems mentally for the purposes of study. . . . The... | |
 | Frederick Ferré, Peter Hartel - Nature - 1994 - 308 pages
...formed which, from the point of view of the ecologist, are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth. These ecosystems, as we may call them,...which range from the universe as a whole down to the atom.6 By calling units of nature "ecosystems" Tansley linked ecology with the conceptual developments... | |
 | Herman Henry Shugart - Science - 1998 - 550 pages
...kinds within each system, not only between the organisms but between the organic and the inorganic. These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the...one category of the multitudinous physical systems from the universe as a whole down to the atom. The ecosystem concept had its roots in theoretical concepts... | |
 | Felix Muller - Technology & Engineering - 2000 - 604 pages
...formed which, from the point of view of the ecologist, are the basic units of nature on the face of the earth. These ecosystems, as we may call them,...range from the universe as a whole down to the atom. " Thus, the ecosystem is a fundamental unit of ecological research (Odum, 1980), which can be characterised... | |
 | David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 390 pages
...kinds within each system, not only between the organisms but between the organic and the inorganic. These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the...range from the universe as a whole down to the atom. The whole method of science, as H. Levy (1932) has most convincingly pointed out, is to isolate systems... | |
 | David R. Keller, Frank B. Golley - Science - 2000 - 386 pages
...kinds within each system, not only between the organisms but between the organic and the inorganic. These ecosystems, as we may call them, are of the...range from the universe as a whole down to the atom. The whole method of science, as H. Levy (1932) has most convincingly pointed out, is to isolate systems... | |
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