A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - References docx
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - References docx
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A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 2 docx
... spatial scale, and time scale are inverse to hierarchical scale.
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Energy and matter exchange at each level depend on openness, measured as available exchange area relative
to volume. Electromagnetic ... to be able make exact
measurements. Ecologists rarely do this anyway. Approximations can yield an approxi-
mate science, and that is what ecology is. Modeling in particular approximates rea...
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 8 docx
... is the area of the cli-
matic zones. Tropical landmasses have a larger climatically similar total surface area than
landmasses at higher latitudes with similarly small temperature fluctuations
(Rosenzweig, ... as a mechanism of adaptation in a feedback loop
creates an interactive system between an animal’s phenotype and its environment.
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Williams’ and Milan Straškraba’s Foundation” after two of my close scientist friends who
passed away in 2002 and 2000. William Williams has contributed significantly to inte-
grated lake management ... record is available from the Library of Congress
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A catalogue record is available from the British Library
ISBN: 97 8-0 -4 4 4-5 316 0...
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 1 pot
... organism, soil type,
drainage basin or depth in a water body. At a larger scale, regional and even globally
distributed ecosystems can be evaluated based on a commonality of basic structural ... but they can be improved considerably when
new methods, additional information, and additional observations are available. It may
take 20 or maybe 50 years before we have the quality of an eco...
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 3 pot
... fact that our standard deviations on any
measurement that we make are far beyond the levels accepted by our “colleagues” from
physics and chemistry.
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Meaning ... that Einstein agreed with Born on the fact that the mathematical formalism of quantum
mechanics, which originated in Göttingen and was subsequently elaborated at Cambridge and Copenhage...
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... 8.
One disadvantage of ascendency as an index of directionality is that its calculation
requires a large amount of data. Currently, the networks accompanying a seres of ecologi-
cal stages have not ... Feedback, after all, has played a central role in
much of what is known as the theory of “self-organization” (e.g. Eigen, 1971; Maturana and
Varela, 1980; DeAngelis et al., 1986; Haken, 1...
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 5 doc
... political, stem from the lack
of a systems perspective that goes to remote, primary causes rather than stopping at
proximate, derivative ones.
Many systems analysis approaches are based on state-space ... recently WAND by Allesina
and Bondavalli (2004) and NEA by Fath and Borrett (2006) are available to perform the
necessary computation on network data and will ease the dissemination...
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 6 doc
... that local instabilities
can be leading to regional steady-state situations. What we can see is that there are many
empirical traps we can fall into. Maybe the connection of empirical research ... plus an additional
mortality rate due to food shortage and an additional mortality rate caused by a dis-
agreement between bill depth and the size and hardness of seeds.
The beak depth can vary .....
A New Ecology - Systems Perspective - Chapter 7 pptx
... contains amino
base coding redundant amino base coding combinations in the sense that for some
amino acids two or more combinations of amino bases are valid. As an alphabet is a
constraint for an ... constraints are interacting and constantly changing; therefore, the maximum
degree of mutual adaptation is a dynamic variable as well. This is a focal reason why
the orientor approach is no...