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Synopsis
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.
Robert O Neill
This is a clear, well-written exposition of the ascendency concepts in terms that ecologists will understand and appreciate. It is the next generation of the energy paradigm and the trophic dynamic paradigm wrapped together in a logical and useful way.