Ecosystem Homeostasis

All the main theoretical and practical issues of contemporary ecology are focused on the concept of the ecosystem homeostasis, the crucial theme of this book.

Based on the author's personal experience and innumerable discussions held among ecologists in a number of countries, the book presents a complete overview of modern concepts of the ecosystem homeostasis and shows how they have emerged from the classical idea of balance of nature. A thesis is advanced that the community organization is the carrier of the homeostatic mechanisms in the ecosystem. These mechanisms affect the cycling of matter, energy flow, production and structure.

Professor Trojan offers an original approach to ecosystem equilibrium, defined as a dynamic state of ecological process in which the production and decomposition of organic matter are balanced within a complete natural cycle.