Ecology is an historical science in which theories can be as difficult to test as they are to devise. This volume, intended for ecologists and evolutionary biologists, reviews ecological theories, and how they are generated, evaluated, and categorized. Synthesizing a vast and sometimes labyrinthine literature, this book is a useful entry into the scientific philosophy of ecology and natural history. The need for integration of the contributions to theory made by different disciplines is a central theme of this book. The authors demonstrate that only through such integration will advances in ecological theory be possible. Ecologists, evolutionary biologists, and other serious students of natural history will want this book.
- ISBN10 0080546048
- ISBN13 9780080546049
- Publish Date 14 May 2014 (first published 1 July 1994)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Academic Press
- Edition 2nd Revised ed.
- Format eBook
- Pages 244
- Language English