Systems ecology; An introduction

Book · Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1983

OSTI ID:5545893

Odum, H T

The purposes of this book are to help in: (1) teaching the nature and theory of systems, (2) introducing the systems ecology, (3) introducing systems of nature of many scales of sizes in a comparative way, (4) using energy language to generalize the compare systems of nature and humans, (5) teaching systems languages and modeling approaches to understanding systems, (6) unifying concepts of kinetics, dynamics, energetics, environment, and economics, (7) presenting evidence, for generality of energy hierarchy, energy quality, maximum power selection, and pulsing control, (8) introducing theory of energy analysis, and (9) seeking a more rigorous and holistic way to introduce and unify general ecology.

• OSTI ID: 5545893
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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