Os Seminários Novos e Velhos Saberes, atividade continuada de extensão, coordenada pelos programas de pós-graduação do Instituto de Biologia da Ufba (Diversidade Animal, Ecologia e Biomonitoramento, Ecologia Aplicada à Gestão Ambiental e Genética e Biodiversidade), apresentam no dia 28 de outubro de 2016, a palestra de Dr. Victor Levèfre,  pesquisador da Université Paris-1 (França), intitulada:

Os valores científicos de organicismo ecológico

28 de outubro de 2016

Salão Nobre do Instituto de Biologia da Ufba

Resumo

The hypothesis that ecological units (ecosystems, landscapes, or the biosphere itself) are analogous to organisms is generally viewed as an outdated or freak idea associated in the history of ecology with the names of Frederic Clements and, more recently, James Lovelock. Against this standard view, I propose that ecological organicism is still relevant for science : it’s the best way to justify the use of functional and health vocabulary in ecosystem ecology and it’s a good hypothesis to explain the dynamics of ecosystems. This view is developed against the idea that ecosystems are simply physical systems which all phenomena are fully explainable by physical theories.