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On Methods of Analyzing Ecosystems: Lessons from the Analysis of Forest-Insect Systems

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Potentials and Limitations of Ecosystem Analysis

Part of the book series: Ecological Studies ((ECOLSTUD,volume 61))

Abstract

There are various ways to analyze ecosystems. No approach is unanimously accepted (Ruesink 1976; Getz and Gutierrez 1982). One alternative to this seemingly unresolvable dispute is to analyze past experience in order to learn from it. A fair assessment of any scientific approach would be to compare its achievements with its initial objectives as defined by the scientists directly involved.

Contribution No. 118 of the working Group for the study of Population Dynamics of the Larch Bud Moth of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Zürich, Switzerland

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Baltensweiler, W., Fischlin, A. (1987). On Methods of Analyzing Ecosystems: Lessons from the Analysis of Forest-Insect Systems. In: Schulze, ED., Zwölfer, H. (eds) Potentials and Limitations of Ecosystem Analysis. Ecological Studies, vol 61. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-71630-0_20

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