Ecosystem Dynamics

Acknowledgements ix

About the companion website xi

1 Where Are We and How Did We Arrive Here? 1

1.1 Why this book? 1

1.2 Ecosystems in crisis 2

1.3 Relevance of the past 5

1.4 Forecasting the future 7

1.5 Chapter details and logic 9

1.6 For whom is the book intended? 12

1.7 Four key questions and the links to policy 13

2 Modelling 15

2.1 Introduction 15

2.1.1 How did these models develop? 16

2.1.2...