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Article: Ecological Microcosms.
- Article from:
- Ecology
- Article date:
- April 1, 1995
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1995 Ecological Society of America. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Beyers and Odum describe ecological microcosms (or the synonym "microecosystems") as "small ecosystems held in containers." Almost any container is considered, from small petri dishes to the giant Biosphere 2. The authors, among the most qualified in the world to discuss these systems, set out both to review the uses of microecosystems in ecological research and to set ecology in the framework of ecosystems as true self-organizing systems, not populations acting in isolation. The authors suggest that this book could be used as "a text for an ecology course organized around students' microcosms." That suggestion is not terribly far off base. There is a lot of ecology in this ...
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