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Beeby & Brennan: First Ecology - Ecological Principles and Environmental Issues 3e

13. Stability and ecological organisation

Species interaction and community organisation

Case study 13a - Ecological hierarchies and stability

  1. Section 8.1 - sub-section on hierarchy theory - hierarchy theory explained and the impact of forest fires

  2. Section 9.2 - how hierarchy theory helps to explain ecological stability

  3. Section 9.3 - sub-section on stability and diversity - ecological stability and diversity

  4. Section 9.4 - models of complexity and ecological stability in species-rich and species-poor communities

  5. Section 8.2 - effect of scale on ecological stability and hierarchy theory in landscape ecology

  6. Box 8.1 - hierarchy theory applied to urban landscape ecology


Scale and stability in ecological processes

Case study 13b - Ecological stability as a feature of the scale of an ecological process

  1. Section 9.3 - concepts of ecological stability

  2. Section 8.1 - hierarchy theory and the effect of scale on ecological processes

  3. Section 7.1 - the macro- and microscale of nutrient transfers - microbial factors controlling key nutrient transfers

  4. Section 8.3 - local, regional and global indicators of change in glaciers and the arctic tundra

  5. Box 8.6 - using marine phytoplankton to reduce the carbon content of the atmosphere