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Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow

By Lev Ginzburg , Mark Colyvan

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2004
ISBN
019516816X, 9780195168167, 9781423720317
Open Library ID
OL7390826M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2656023 bytes)
Pages
183\183
Topic
Biology Ecology
Library
mexmat
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

Ginzburg (ecology and evolution, Stony Brook U.) and Colyvan (philosophy, U. of Queensland) suggest that ecological theory is fundamentally flawed because it fails to take into account the inertial character of population growth-the fact that biological populations increase exponentially unless something restrains them. The flaw may be the cause of repeated and dramatic failures of biological management around the world, leading to the collapse of fisheries, ineffectiveness of game management, and inability to control pest outbreaks. The remedy, they argue, is to repair the underlying theory.

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