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In 1947, the late Alex S. Watt highlighted a dilemma in ecology which persists to the present time. Watt recognized that on the one hand studies can concentrate on a particular plant species or community and assess the effects of factors which influence it (autoecology), but it is quite another problem to investigate the interrelationships of all components of an ecosystem equally in all disciplines. The ultimate ideal which Watt foresaw was a fusion of the detailed, isolated information and that this synthesis would be of particular scientific and practical importance. The contribution made by Watt is still very high valued not only in the U.K. (e.g. Newman, 1982) but also in the U.S. A. and elsewhere (e.g. Boormann and Likens, 1979; Shugart, 1984). A shortage of solutions to problems that confront us today, e.g. forest dieback and stream acidification and the influence of rising carbon dioxide levels on global climate, serve to illustrate major shortcomings in environmental research. These are, firstly, a lack of knowledge of certain fundamental processes but, secondly, and now it seems more seriously, an uncertainty of the interdependence and interaction of primary processes in

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Author

J. Roberts

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (John Wiley & Sons); John Wiley & Sons Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0885-6087)

Published

1987

Language

EN

Field

Environmental Science (Physical Sciences)