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Jorgensen's Ecosystem Ecology provides a thorough and comprehensive overview of the world's aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems.

Table of Contents

Preface

Part I: Ecosystems as Systems
1. Introduction
2. Ecosystem Ecology
3. Ecological Systems Thinking
4. Ecosystems
5. Ecosystem Services
6. Fundamental Laws in Ecology

Part II: Ecosystem Properties
7. Autocatalysis
8. Body Size Patterns
9. Cycling and Cycling Indices
10. Ecological Network Analysis, Ascendency
11. Ecological Network Analysis, Energy Analysis
12. Ecological Network Analysis, Environmental Analysis
13. Inderect Effects in Ecology
14. Emergent Properties
15. Self-organization
16. Ecological Complexity
17. Hierarchy Theory in Ecology
18. Goal Functions and Orientors
19. Energy
20. Overview of Ecosystem Types

Part III: Freshwater & Marine Ecosystems
21. Coral Reefs
22. Estuaries
23. Freshwater Lakes
24. Freshwater Marshes
25. Lagoons
26. Mangrove Wetlands
27. Mediterranean
28. Peatlands
29. Riparian Wetlands
30. Rivers and Streams I
31. Rivers and Streams II
32. Rocky Intertidal Zone
33. Saline and Soda Lakes
34. Salt Marshes
35. Swamps
36. Temporary Water
37. Upwelling Ecosystems

Part IV: Terrestrial Ecosystems
38. Agriculture Systems
39. Alpine Ecosystems and the High-Elevation Treeline
40. Alpine Forest
41. Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems
42. Boreal Forest
43. Botanical Gardens
44. Caves
45. Chaparral
46. Deserts
47. Dunes
48. Floodplains
49. Forest Plantations
50. Greenhouses, Microcosms and Mesocosms
51. Landfills
52. Polar Terrestrial Ecology
53. Savanna
54. Steppes and Praries
55. Temperate Forest
56. Tropical Rainforest
57. Tropical Seasonal Forest
58. Tundra
59. Urban Systems
60. Wind Shelterbelts
Index

About the Author

Sven Erik Jorgensen is professor emeritus in environmental chemistry at the University of Copenhagen. He received a master of science in chemical engineering from the Danish Technical University (1958), a doctor of environmental engineering (Karlsruhe University) and a doctor of science in ecological modelling (Copenhagen University). He is honourable doctor at Coimbra University, Portugal and at Dar es Salaam University (Tanzania). In 1975 he founded the journal Ecological Modelling and in 1978 the ISEM (International Society of Ecological Modelling). He has received several awards, the Ruder Boskovic Medal, the Prigogine Prize, the Pascal Medal, the Einstein professorship at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Santa Chiara Prize for multidisciplinary teaching and the very prestigious Stockholm Water Prize. He has published 366 papers of which 275 were published in peer-reviewed international journals and he has edited or authored 76 books, of which several have been translated to other languages (Chinese, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese). He has authored a successful textbook in ecological modelling "Fundamentals of Ecological Modelling", which was published as a fourth edition together with Brian Fath in 2011. It has been translated into Chinese and Russian (third edition). Rcently he authored a well received textbook in system ecology entitled "Introduction to Systems Ecology". It was published as an English edition in 2012 and as a Chinese edition in 2013. He was editor in chief of the Encyclopedia of Ecology, published in 2008, and of the Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in December 2012. He has taught courses in ecological modelling in 32 different countries. He is the editorial board member of 18 international journals in the fields of ecology and environmental management. He is currently the president of ISEM and he has been elected member of the European Academy of Science's, for which he is the chairman of the Section for Environmental Sciences.