Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems /

Discontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems / / ed. by C. S. Holling, Craig Allen.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Abades, Sebastian,
Allen, Craig R.,
Arango, Natalia,
Barkley Rosser, J.,
Cumming, Graeme S.,
Garmestani, Ahjond S.,
Gunderson, Lance H.,
Havlicek, Tanya D.,
Holling, Crawford S.,
Keymer, Juan E.,
Ludwig, Donald,
Marquet, Pablo A.,
Maurer, Brian A.,
Michael Bessey, K.,
Peterson, Garry D.,
Restrepo, Carla,
Sendzimir, Jan P.,
Skillen, Jennifer J.,
Stow, Craig A.,
Zeballos, Horacio,
HerausgeberIn:
Allen, Craig,
Holling, C. S.,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2008]
©2008
Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
Series:Complexity in Ecological Systems
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 103 illus.; 17 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Synthesis
  • References
  • Contributors
  • Index
  • Preface

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