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J. M. Grove - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Urban ecosystems: What would Tansley do?
    Urban Ecosystems, 2009
    Co-Authors: Steward T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove
    Abstract:

    The ecosystem concept was introduced in ecology originally to solve problems associated with theories of succession and ecological communities. It has evolved to become one of ecology’s fundamental ideas, and has proven to be applicable to a wide variety of research questions and applications. However, there is controversy about whether or how well the ecosystem concept is suited to urban habitats. By examining Arthur Tansley’s original presentation of the ecosystem concept, and exploring how the ecological context of the concept has changed, we indicate that the fundamental concept of the ecosystem is well suited to urban ecological studies. The concept can be clarified for urban use by including a social complex and a built complex to insure that human social institutions and actions, and the structures and infrastructure they build are explicitly included in the ecosystem concept. The ecosystem concept is thus seen as clearly robust to use in urban areas.

  • urban ecosystems what would Tansley do
    Urban Ecosystems, 2009
    Co-Authors: Steward T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove
    Abstract:

    The ecosystem concept was introduced in ecology originally to solve problems associated with theories of succession and ecological communities. It has evolved to become one of ecology’s fundamental ideas, and has proven to be applicable to a wide variety of research questions and applications. However, there is controversy about whether or how well the ecosystem concept is suited to urban habitats. By examining Arthur Tansley’s original presentation of the ecosystem concept, and exploring how the ecological context of the concept has changed, we indicate that the fundamental concept of the ecosystem is well suited to urban ecological studies. The concept can be clarified for urban use by including a social complex and a built complex to insure that human social institutions and actions, and the structures and infrastructure they build are explicitly included in the ecosystem concept. The ecosystem concept is thus seen as clearly robust to use in urban areas.

  • Urban ecosystems: What would Tansley do?‘ Urban Ecosystems 12
    2009
    Co-Authors: Steward T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove
    Abstract:

    Abstract The ecosystem concept was introduced in ecology originally to solve problems associated with theories of succession and ecological communities. It has evolved to become one of ecology’s fundamental ideas, and has proven to be applicable to a wide variety of research questions and applications. However, there is controversy about whether or how well the ecosystem concept is suited to urban habitats. By examining Arthur Tansley’s original presentation of the ecosystem concept, and exploring how the ecological context of the concept has changed, we indicate that the fundamental concept of the ecosystem is well suited to urban ecological studies. The concept can be clarified for urban use by including a social complex and a built complex to insure that human social institutions and actions, and the structures and infrastructure they build are explicitly included in the ecosystem concept. The ecosystem concept is thus seen as clearly robust to use in urban areas

Steward T. A. Pickett - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • Urban ecosystems: What would Tansley do?
    Urban Ecosystems, 2009
    Co-Authors: Steward T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove
    Abstract:

    The ecosystem concept was introduced in ecology originally to solve problems associated with theories of succession and ecological communities. It has evolved to become one of ecology’s fundamental ideas, and has proven to be applicable to a wide variety of research questions and applications. However, there is controversy about whether or how well the ecosystem concept is suited to urban habitats. By examining Arthur Tansley’s original presentation of the ecosystem concept, and exploring how the ecological context of the concept has changed, we indicate that the fundamental concept of the ecosystem is well suited to urban ecological studies. The concept can be clarified for urban use by including a social complex and a built complex to insure that human social institutions and actions, and the structures and infrastructure they build are explicitly included in the ecosystem concept. The ecosystem concept is thus seen as clearly robust to use in urban areas.

  • urban ecosystems what would Tansley do
    Urban Ecosystems, 2009
    Co-Authors: Steward T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove
    Abstract:

    The ecosystem concept was introduced in ecology originally to solve problems associated with theories of succession and ecological communities. It has evolved to become one of ecology’s fundamental ideas, and has proven to be applicable to a wide variety of research questions and applications. However, there is controversy about whether or how well the ecosystem concept is suited to urban habitats. By examining Arthur Tansley’s original presentation of the ecosystem concept, and exploring how the ecological context of the concept has changed, we indicate that the fundamental concept of the ecosystem is well suited to urban ecological studies. The concept can be clarified for urban use by including a social complex and a built complex to insure that human social institutions and actions, and the structures and infrastructure they build are explicitly included in the ecosystem concept. The ecosystem concept is thus seen as clearly robust to use in urban areas.

  • Urban ecosystems: What would Tansley do?‘ Urban Ecosystems 12
    2009
    Co-Authors: Steward T. A. Pickett, J. M. Grove
    Abstract:

    Abstract The ecosystem concept was introduced in ecology originally to solve problems associated with theories of succession and ecological communities. It has evolved to become one of ecology’s fundamental ideas, and has proven to be applicable to a wide variety of research questions and applications. However, there is controversy about whether or how well the ecosystem concept is suited to urban habitats. By examining Arthur Tansley’s original presentation of the ecosystem concept, and exploring how the ecological context of the concept has changed, we indicate that the fundamental concept of the ecosystem is well suited to urban ecological studies. The concept can be clarified for urban use by including a social complex and a built complex to insure that human social institutions and actions, and the structures and infrastructure they build are explicitly included in the ecosystem concept. The ecosystem concept is thus seen as clearly robust to use in urban areas

Dean L. Urban - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • On Scale and Pattern
    Bulletin of the Ecological Society of America, 2014
    Co-Authors: Dean L. Urban
    Abstract:

    Landscape ecologists embrace scale and pattern. If, as Simon Levin argued in his MacArthur Award lecture, “the problem of pattern and scale is the central problem in ecology” (Levin 1992:1943) then the paper trail for the discipline of landscape ecology must trace these concepts of scale and pattern. My favorite invocation of scale comes from Sir Arthur Tansley (1935), in his classic essay on the nature of vegetation. This essay is famous, of course, for his coining the term ecosystem. But in the same paper—indeed, in the same paragraph—Tansley noted (pages 299–300) that these systems are arrayed over a continuous range of scales, “from the universe as a whole down to the atom.” We mentally slice particular scales out of this continuum as objects of study, isolating a phenomenon of interest while censoring distractions at other scales. Many decades later, this hierarchical approach to scaling has come to be the norm for ecologists.

Tansley Review - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

Clinton Joseph Regan - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.