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Agroecology :

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9781439895610

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Agroecology :

[Book]

the ecology of sustainable food systems /

Stephen R. Gliessman (Professor Emeritus of Agroecology, University of California, Santa Cruz) with Eric W. Engles (PhD) ; technical editing by Eric W. Engles.

Third edition.

Boca Raton :

CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group,

[2014]

xvii, 371 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :

illustrations (some color) ;

28 cm

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sec. I. Introduction to agroecology -- Case for fundamental change in agriculture -- Agroecology and the agroecosystem concept -- Sec. II. Plants and abiotic factors of the environment -- The plant -- Light -- Temperature -- Humidity and rainfall -- Wind -- Soil -- Water in the soil -- Fire -- Sec. III. A more complete autecological perspective -- Biotic factors -- The environmental complex -- Heterotrophic organisms -- Sec. IV. System-level interactions -- Population ecology of agroecosystems -- Genetic resources in agroecosystems -- Species interactions in crop communities -- Agroecosystem diversity -- Disturbance, succession, and agroecosystem management -- Animals in agroecosystems -- Energetics of agroecosystems -- Landscape diversity -- Sec. V. The transition to sustainability -- Converting to ecologically based management -- Indicators of sustainability -- Sec. VI. Bringing about a sustainable world food system -- Agriculture, society, and agroecology -- Community and culture in the remaking of the food system -- From sustainable agroecosystems to a sustainable food system.

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Resource added for the Sustainable Food & Agriculture Systems program 100903.

Ecology of sustainable food systems

Agricultural ecology.

Agricultural systems.

Sustainable agriculture.

Gliessman, Stephen R.

Engles, Eric

20180710142923.0

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