Ecological complexity and agroecology

by Vandermeer, John H.

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Title Statements

Full title :Ecological complexity and agroecology / John Vandermeer and Ivette Perfecto.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

The Physical Object

Description:xxi, 250 pages : : illustrations ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138231962, 1138231967, 9781138231979, 1138231975
oclc:ocn982653449
LC Classification:S589.7
Dewey Decimal:577.4

Introduction -- The idea of ecological complexity -- Early revolutionaries in the new agriculture -- To "understand": nine reasons for generalization -- A note on theory and intuition -- Ecological complexity and the organization of this book -- Basic ecological concepts -- How plants get energy -- How plants get nutrients from soil -- Transformation of nutrients in the soil -- Plants, soil and water -- The ecological niche: a historical backbone -- Population dynamics -- Equilibrium, resilience, persistence -- Basic trophic dynamics -- Feedback in dynamic systems -- The Turing mechanism and geometric pattern -- Dynamic consequences of background exogenous pattern -- Generation of endogenous pattern -- Criticality and power functions -- Percolation points and power functions -- The skeleton of the fundamental niche, the flesh of the realized niche -- Spatial pattern and the agricultural connection -- Chaos -- Introduction -- Intuition of the importance of chaos in a simple system -- Farmer math and the intuition of chaos -- Chaotic attractors, transients and Cantor sets -- Ecological chaos in the real world? -- The generalized structure of chaotic attractors -- From cooked carrots…