Levels of organization in biology: On the nature and nomenclature of ecology's fourth level

Biological Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 71-78

  Lidicker Jr , William Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Community ecology; Ecological system; Ecoscape; Ecosystem; Emergent properties; Hierarchy theory; Holism; Landscape; Spatial and temporal scales; Spatial ecology

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; BIOSPHERE; COMMUNITY ECOLOGY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; NOMENCLATURE; ORGANISM; ORGANISM COMMUNITY; ORGANIZATION; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENT; PHYLOGENY; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; TERMINOLOGY AS TOPIC;

EID: 38349155184     PISSN: 14647931     EISSN: 1469185X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00032.x     Document Type: Review

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