Geoecology
Subtitle: an evolutionary approach
By: Richard John Huggett.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1995
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Biogeomorphology.; Ecology.
Description: Animals, plants, and soils interact with one another. They also interact with the terrestrial spheres - the atmosphere, hydrosphere, toposphere, and lithosphere - and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land, this rich interaction creates landscape systems or geoecosystems. Geoecology investigates the structure and function of geoecosystems.

A new 'evolutionary' view of geoecological systems, and the animals, plants and soils comprising them, emerges: geoecosystems are seen as dynamic entities, organized on a hierarchical basis, that perpetually respond to changes within themselves and in their surroundings. Presenting a new ecological and evolutionary approach to the study of geoecological change, Geoecology will interest a wide range of environmental scientists, geographers, ecologists, and pedologists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-300) and index.