Introduction

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(The idea was by Jen Richardson ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/2638.html ), who's been happily busy ( https://jenrichardson.dreamwidth.org/4393.html ) - I do recommend everything else on her blog! All errors and awful puns my fault only.)

This community is attempt to take Jen's idea and run with it, follwoing the plan in https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2009/02/deindustrial-reading-list.html (hence "Deindustrial Reading Ynitiative", that and bad taste on my part), which resembles Jen's list, but is already planned and ordered. We'll go through this DRY reading 1 chapter/month, with a post for each - though, since I don't expect to deal with anywhere as many comments as JMG does in total, the discussions of each chapter on each post needn't end with each month (if there's that much interest!).

The first post on a chapter will be on April 1st; before each book's first chapter, there will be a post on the book itself to see whether anything needs prior consideration (such as for the first book; in the future, I'm thinking about making them at the midpoint of the last month for the concluding book; items 4, 7, and 10 probably will need to be discussed earlier).

(Regarding items 7 and 10 on the list, I think the right thing to do would be for each member to pick one such book and review it, but we'll have *plenty* of time to consider that until we get there. (Meaning I think we should converge on a single book regarding item 4, but can leave that for even a lot later.))

(In the looking-for-interest phase, there was prior discussion at https://deketemoisont.dreamwidth.org/1715.html#comments .)

Fundamentals of Ecology: Introduction

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Item 1 in https://thearchdruidreport-archive.200605.xyz/2009/02/deindustrial-reading-list.html didn't have to be one of the specific books named; I tried to pick an ecology textbook with a digital version available (unlike either of those) - but it appears the good stuff lacks that, so I just went with Eugene P. Odum's Fundamentals of Ecology because I like the author's other book( title)s better than Brewer's, which might suggest higher quality of the textbook in question. The result of discussion at https://deketemoisont.dreamwidth.org/1715.html is that we'll be referencing the 1971 edition, with the following chapters (in my translation from Portuguese back to English):

1 - Introduction: Ecology's Domain
2 - Principles and Concepts Regarding the Ecosystem
3 - Principles and Concepts Regarding Energy in Ecological Systems
4 - Principles and Concepts Regarding Biogeochemical Cycles
5 - Principles Regarding Limiting Factors
6 - Principles and Concepts Regarding Community-Level Organization
7 - Principles and Concepts Regarding Population-Level Organization
8 - Species and Individual in the Ecosystem
9 - Ecosystem Development and Evolution
10 - Systems Ecology: Systems Analysis Approach and Mathematical Modelling in Ecology
11 - Freshwater Ecology
12 - Sea Ecology
13 - Estuary Ecology
14 - Land Ecology
15 - Resources
16 - Pollution and Environmental Health
17 - Radiation Ecology
18 - Remote Detection as Tool for Ecosystems Study and Ordering
19 - Perspectives in Microbial Ecology
20 - Space Flight Ecology
21 - For an Applied Human Ecology

. If you use a different edition, see whether you can find the sections equivalent to those chapters; also, you may not be reading the same stuff in some important sense; let's see how all this works out.