 | James I. McClintock - 1994 - Broj stranica: 200
...Ethic." There, "community" includes "soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land" which is "not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals" (SCA, 239, 253).3 Game Management earned Leopold the title of "Father of Game Management," and in 1933,... | |
 | Susan L. Flader - 1994 - Broj stranica: 317
...the Ecological Society of America. Here he first presented the image of land as a biotic pyramid— "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals"— and drew ecological interrelationships into an evolutionary context. The whole trend of evolution,... | |
 | Don E. Marietta - 1995 - Broj stranica: 254
...Leopold's description of the land as a community and as a pyramid of life, which he also described as a "fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals." u The interrelatedness of species can be seen in their development in a shared process of evolution.... | |
 | Herman E. Daly - 1994 - Broj stranica: 548
...much as is coal or copper. So is a human being. Aldo Leopold characterized the economy of nature as "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals" (Leopold 1966, p. 253). But in dealing with human beings, energy is far too remote an abstraction to... | |
 | Andrew Light, Jonathan M. Smith - 1997 - Broj stranica: 308
..."biotic mechanism," whose diverse components are bound together by the exchange of energy. "Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals" (216). The image of an energy circuit allows Leopold to emphasize the interrelatedness of the components.... | |
 | Roger S. Gottlieb - 1996 - Broj stranica: 690
...they ones of predation and competition or ones of mutuality. When Aldo Leopold described the land as "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals," he was describing land in relational terms.28 Second, the most critical single question facing ecological... | |
 | Robert V. Percival, Dorothy C. Alevizatos - 1997 - Broj stranica: 468
...intermediate layer with the bears, raccoons, and squirrels which eat both meat and vegetables Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. The circuit is not closed; some energy is dissipated in decay, some is added by absorption from the... | |
 | Eric Katz - 1997 - Broj stranica: 294
...natural entities. These entities are organized in such a way as to transfer energy throughout the system, "a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals."10 Although the land, a biotic pyramid, is a collection of individual entities, it is similar... | |
 | Clare Palmer - 1998 - Broj stranica: 264
...passage of energy from the sun through different ecological levels — the biotic pyramid: 'Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy, flowing...energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil.' The image of the land as a flow of energy is one which has become increasingly common since Leopold's... | |
 | Dane R. Gordon - 1998 - Broj stranica: 232
...food chains short and simple. Evolution has added layer after layer, link after link.... Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing...conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil.31 When the entire environment is regarded in this way we are less likely to dismiss those parts... | |
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Land, then, is not merely soil; it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals. Food chains are the living channels which conduct energy upward; death and decay return it to the soil. 
