Titlebook: Comparative Analyses of Ecosystems; Patterns, Mechanisms Jonathan Cole,Gary Lovett,Stuart Findlay Book 1991 Springer-Verlag New York, Inc.

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Comparing Apples with Oranges: Methods of Interecosystem Comparisonmade using three general approaches: . strive to measure aggregate similarity of ecosystems; . strive to find how a few important characteristics vary among ecosystems; . concentrate on causal relationships and how mechanical function varies among ecosystems. Although ecologists make all the usual t

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On the Relevance of Comparative Ecology to the Larger Field of Ecologyecology is distinguished quantitatively, but not qualitatively, from the rest of the science by the larger scope of its application and the greater degree of aggregation of its variables. These differences enhance problems of scale, causal attribution, imprecision, and comparability, and tend to iso

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