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It can be argued that biophysical ecology (i.e., the science concerned with studying the subject matter of ecology from the physical-mathematical point of view) is developing rather slowly. The rate of development of this science, which is highly important for developing scientifically based management of ecosystems and the biosphere, is limited by the following factors: (1) the absence of systematic experimental approaches (of the type used in physics) connected with the impossibility to make experiments with the ecological object which is unique (e.g., unique is the biosphere itself, a certain lake, river ecosystem, etc.); (2) the rare procedures for the verification of ecosystem mathematical models using field and/or experimental data: (3) the variety of interactions within ecosystems in terms of energy, matter, and control even for small-species communities: and (4) the absence of strict methods for the transfer of laboratory-scale experimental data to full scale. In this chapter we shall discuss some solutions to the situation.
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Degermendzhi, A.G. (2009). New directions in biophysical ecology. In: Global Climatology and Ecodynamics. Springer Praxis Books. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78209-4_14
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