David G. Green, Nicholas Klomp, Glyn Rimmington, Suzanne Sadedin

Complexity in Landscape Ecology (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer Netherlands
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781402042874
• Artikelnr.: 37349010

Autorenporträt

¿David Green is Professor of Computer Science at Monash University. His long research career includes many contributions to complexity theory and its applications, especially in forest ecology, computation, communication, proteins and social networks. Nick Klomp is Professor of Environmental Science and President of CQUniversity, Australia. His research and teaching career has included significant contributions in terrestrial and marine ecology, population dynamics and modelling, conservation and land management. Glyn Rimmington is Professor of Global Learning at Wichita State University. His research career includes many contributions to applications of complexity theory, especially environmental simulation and to helping people develop intercultural communication competence to work in globally distributed teams. Suzanne Sadedin is an evolutionary biologist and science writer. Her research at Monash, Tennessee, Harvard, and KU Leuven, and her writing, have contributed many deep insights about the role of evolution in the natural and human world.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Towards a new paradigm.- 2. Complexity in ecology.- 3. Complexity in landscapes.- 4. Lessons from complexity theory.- 5. Individuals in landscapes.- 6. Populations and interactions.- 7. Communities.- 8. Genetics and adaptation in landscapes.- 9. Virtual worlds.- 10. Ecological informatics.- 11. The Global Picture.

Rezensionen

From the reviews of the first edition:

"This book is meant to be a 'gentle introduction' to the field of complexity and landscape ecology. ... the book succeeds in its goal ... . the most inspiring idea in the book is that seemingly complex ecological phenomena can often be explained by simple assumptions ... . As such, this book could serve as a springboard for stimulating research about other general ecological principles ... . I recommend the book to those who need a simple introduction to this complex topic ... ." (Erica A. H. Smithwick, Ecology, Vol. 87 (11), November, 2006)