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Encyclopedia: Geophysiology |
 | | Howard Odum also extended the nature of the scale of ecosystems from that of a single pond upards, showing that a "nested hierarchy", "heterarchy" or "holarchy" existed in which systems could be considered as elements of larger systems (leaf to tree to glade to forest to bioregion to biotic realm). |
| | It was James Hutton (1727-1797), considered to be the father of modern geoscience, who suggested that the proper study of the Earth should be "geophysiology". |
| | Geophysiology is a very young science and currently lacks a strong theoretical foundation. |
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