Reviews for A catalogue of modern works on science and technology. 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th-14th, 1...

The average rating for A catalogue of modern works on science and technology. 2nd, 4th, 5th, 7th, 8th, 10th-14th, 1... based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-04-19 00:00:00 Brian Shipton Ecosystems: Basic Units of the Natural World (Chapters 2-4) explores natural ecosystems—what they are, how they function, and how they change. I no longer employ the five Sustainability Principles (an approach that has outlived its usefulness), although the actual processes they drew attention to are still very much in place. Chapter 5 (Ecosystems and Evolutionary Change) from the older editions have been removed, but the material on natural selection and speciation has been kept in Chapter 4 (Ecosystems: How They Change). Some of the new material that appears in these chapters includes the work of the Heinz Center on the State of the Nation's Ecosystems, the concepts of top-down and bottom-up regulation of populations, and a guest essay by biologist David Lahti on the village weaverbird. The end of Chapter 4 returns to the idea of the ecological footprint to address the issue of human carrying capacity.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-02-04 00:00:00 Lester Hammond 628