科图分类法:	Q14 版次：
中图分类法:	Q14 版次：
著者:	Reiners, William A.
题名:	Philosophical foundations for the practices of ecology / / ,
出版发行:	出版地： Cambridge, UK ; 出版社： Cambridge University Press, 出版日期： c2010.
载体形态:	xiii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容提要:	"Ecologists use a remarkable range of methods and techniques to understand complex, inherently variable, and functionally diverse entities and processes across a staggering range of spatial, temporal and interactive scales. These multiple perspectives make ecology very different to the exemplar of science often presented by philosophers. In Philosophical Foundations for the Practices of Ecology, designed for graduate students and researchers, ecology is put into a new philosophical framework that engages with this inherent pluralism while still placing constraints on the ways that we can investigate an