Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems /
Following the publication of C.S. Holling's seminal work on the relationship between animal body mass patterns and scale-specific landscape structure, ecologists began to explore the theoretical and applied consequences of discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems. Are ecosystems...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | Complexity in ecological systems series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Preface
- PART 1. BACKGROUND
- 1. Panarchies and Discontinuities
- 2. Self- organization and Discontinuities in Ecosystems
- 3. Discontinuity, Multimodality, and the Evolution of Pattern
- 4. Discontinuities in Body- Size Distributions
- PART 2. PATTERNS
- 5. Patterns of Landscape Structure, Discontinuity, Mammal Phylogeny, and Body Size
- 6. Biophysical Discontinuities in the Everglades Ecosystem
- 7. Discontinuities in the Geo graph i cal Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies
- 8. Discontinuities in Urban Systems
- 9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis
- PART 3. CONSEQUENCES
- 10. Dynamic Discontinuities in Ecologic- Economic Systems
- 11. The Ecological Significance of Discontinuities in Body- Mass Distributions
- 12. Cross- Scale Structure and the Generation of Innovation and Novelty in Discontinuous Complex Systems
- References
- Contributors
- Index.