Geoecology: An Evolutionary Approach

<p>Animals plants and soils interact with one another with the terrestrial spheres and with the rest of the Cosmos. On land this rich interaction creates landscape systems or geoecosystems.<br><em>Geoecology</em> investigates the structure and function of geoecosystems their components and their environment. The author develops a simple dynamic systems model the `brash' equation to form the conceptual framework for the book suggesting an `ecological' and `evolutionary' approach.<br> Exploring internal of `ecological' interactions between geoecosystems and their near-surface environments - the atmosphere hydrosphere toposhere and lithosphere - and external influences both geological and cosmic <em>Geoecology</em> presents geoecosystems as dynamic entities constantly responding to changes within themselves and their surroundings.<br> An `evolutionary' view emerges of geoecological systems and the animals plants and soils comprising them providing a new way of thinking for the whole environmental complex and the rich web of interdependencies contained therein.</p>