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Vegetation, soil and climate are the most important components of ecological systems. This long-awaited fourth edition of the well-established textbook by Heinrich Walter summarizes our knowledge of the earth's ecology and constitutes the basis for a deeper understanding of the larger interrelations on a global scale.While Walter's general concept remains unchanged, the individual chapters have been completely revised, enlarged and updated. The author's intimate knowledge of practically all classes of plants and climatic zones allows him to describe the various ecological systems in close detail.This richly illustrated textbook is a must for every student in the plant sciences.

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The highest units of life are the communities of organisms, plans and animals which, together with abiotic environmental factors (e.g. climate and soil), form ecosystems. These are characterized by a continuous cycling of material and flow of energy. Ecology, in the widest sense of the word, is the science of these ecosystems, from the very smallest to the global level - the biosphere. This book is intended to serve as a brief comprehensive introduction to this global ecological system. - from the Introduction

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