Wolfgang Haber Quotes

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Scientific ecology works along a very great number of different lines - perhaps a typical feature of this discipline. In ecological research each element of these different approaches to work and the of the varied opinions formed about them plays its part.

Wolfgang Haber

All environmental areas, from the primeval forest to the large city, can be regarded as ecosystems and investigated accordingly, most of the attention being given to the lasting existence and functioning or 'equilibrium' of these systems.

Wolfgang Haber

Ecosystems are thus phenotypic and functional images of our environment and are divided up and delimited in different ways. New concepts such as agricultural ecosystems, urban ecosystems, etc... are now coming to be accepted. Together with natural, nearly natural and seminatural ecosystems they provide the pattern which makes up a landscape.

Wolfgang Haber

It is not enough to transfer the concept of the agricultural ecosystem to agricultural science and then to believe that justice has been done to ecological interests. We must at the same time go a step further and examine the role of the agricultural ecosystem in the cultivated landscape.

Wolfgang Haber