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Complexity in landscape ecology
David G. Green ... [et al.]
Dordrecht ; [Great Britain] : Springer, c2006
ISBN: 140204285X
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Book 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.
About the author
Professor David Green is Professor in the Faculty of
Information Technology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.
Nicholas Klomp, Charles Sturt University, Albury, NSW, Australia.
Glyn Rimmington, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA.
Dr Suzanne Sadedin is Research Fellow in the Clayton School of
Information Technology, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash
University, Australia.
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