TY - JOUR
AU - Beer, Tom
AB - Paul R. Ehrlich and Jonathan Roughgarden, The Science of Ecology, 1987, Mac- millan Publishing Co, New York. Plants and animals are influenced strongly by meteorologic and climatic events. One might assume then that the study of ecology would focus especially on the relation of organisms to their physical world, and, also, that ecologists would need to use and learn a great deal about atmospheric science. But, unfortunately, ecology has been taught and practiced principally by biologists, who have too often had a habit of looking to the biota as the principal factor influencing other biota. Thus the development of ecological theory in such subfields as fisheries and plant distribu- tion patterns has focused far more on biotic than abiotic factors to the detriment, in our opinion, of the development of predictive science. On the other side of the coin, atmospheric scientists traditionally have paid even less attention to ecology. That may be changing as some climatologists become interested in the long term impacts of potential climatic changes on ecosystems and how that, in turn, may effect the atmosphere through changes in albedo and bio- genic gases. Therefore it seems logical and important that the linkages between ecology and the 
TI - Book reviews
JF - Climatic Change
DO - 10.1007/BF00149004
DA - 2004-06-17
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/book-reviews-qCS3FOr0px
SP - 131
EP - 141
VL - 17
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -