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Complexity in Landscape Ecology (Landscape Series)

By David G. Green , Nicholas Klomp

Book information

Year
2006
ISBN
140204285X, 9781402042850, 9781402042874
Open Library ID
OL8371812M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3168489 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
220\217
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Interactions matter. To understand the distributions of plants and animals in a landscape you need to understand how they interact with each other, and with their environment. The resulting networks of interactions make ecosystems highly complex. Recent research on complexity and artificial life provides many new insights about patterns and processes in landscapes and ecosystems. This book provides the first overview of that work for general readers. It covers such topics as connectivity, criticality, feedback, and networks, as well as their impact on the stability and predictability of ecosystem dynamics. With over 60 years of research experience of both ecology and complexity, the authors are uniquely qualified to provide a new perspective on traditional ecology. They argue that understanding ecological complexity is crucial in today’s globalized and interconnected world. Successful management of the world's ecosystems needs to combine models of ecosystem complexity with biodiversity, environmental, geographic and socioeconomic information.

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