Front cover; Ecological Understanding: The Nature of Theory and the Theory of Nature, Second Edition; Copyright page; Table of contents; PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION; PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION; Part I: Advancing the Discipline and Enhancing Applications; Chapter 1: Integration in Ecology; Chapter 2: Understanding in Ecology; Part II: The Nature of Theory; Chapter 3: The Anatomy of Theory; Chapter 4: The Ontogeny of Theory; Chapter 5: The Taxonomy of Theory; Part III: From Theory to Integration and Application; Chapter 6: Fundamental Questions: Changes in Understanding
Chapter 7: Integration and SynthesisPart IV: Theory and Its Environment; Chapter 8: Constraint and Objectivity in Ecological Integration; Chapter 9: Ecological Understanding and the Public; LITERATURE CITED; INDEX
Summary
A new edition of this thought provoking review of the relationship between varying ecological theories
