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> Prologue Part I: Introducting Geoecosystems 1. Terrestrial Spheres 2. Interdependence in Geoecosystems 3. Climate and Soils 4. The Climate of a Life 5. Altitude 6. Substrate 7. Topography 8. Insularity 9. Disturbance