Providing an entirely fresh view of the origins of organization in living systems, this book mounts a powerful challenge to prevailing mechanistic paradigms of ecology. Current work in information theory, ecosystem energetics, and complexity theory combines in a theoretical and empirical toolkit that is better able to measure the developmental status of any living community, and to provide more effective means of ensuring its health.
Anyone seriously interested in ecosystems or in theoretical ecology will find this book to be well written, stimulating, and worth reading. Quarterly Review of Biology
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