Ecological Systems as Complex Systems: Challenges for an Emerging Science
Complex systems science has contributed to our understanding of ecology in important areas such as food webs, patch dynamics and population fluctuations. This has been achieved through the use of simple measures that can capture the difference between order and disorder and simple models with local...
Main Authors: | Lael Parrott, Jurek Kolasa, Frédéric Guichard, Andrew Gonzalez, Madhur Anand |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2010-03-01
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Series: | Diversity |
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Online Access: | http://www.mdpi.com/1424-2818/2/3/395/ |
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