Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems /

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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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Allen, Craig R., Holling, C. S.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2008.
Series:Complexity in ecological systems series.
Subjects:
Ecology > Statistical methods.
Discontinuous groups.
Groupes discontinus.
NATURE > Ecology.
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Discontinuous groups
Ecology > Statistical methods
Ökosystem
Diskontinuität
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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