Shachak, M., Pickett, S.T., Boeken, B. |
Dryland ecological systems can be studied and managed from various perspectives.
Population, ecosystem, or landscape perspectives are perhaps the most familiar ones used
by desert ecologists, although they are rarely unified in individual studies. It may be possible
to integrate the various perspectives to bring the greatest weight of ecological knowledge to
bear and to improve the success of management. Due to the limited amount of water, soil,
and nutrients available to the organisms in drylands, clear patterns of spatial heterogeneity …
Chapter 18
Shachak, M., Pickett, S.T., Boeken, B. |
Dryland ecological systems can be studied and managed from various perspectives.
Population, ecosystem, or landscape perspectives are perhaps the most familiar ones used
by desert ecologists, although they are rarely unified in individual studies. It may be possible
to integrate the various perspectives to bring the greatest weight of ecological knowledge to
bear and to improve the success of management. Due to the limited amount of water, soil,
and nutrients available to the organisms in drylands, clear patterns of spatial heterogeneity …
Chapter 18