Complexity in landscape ecology
"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."--Jacket
1 online resource (x, 208 pages) : illustrations
9781402042874, 9781402042850, 9786610461400, 9781280461408, 1402042876, 140204285X, 6610461406, 1280461403
65169990
Complexity and ecology
Seeing the wood for the trees
Complexity in landscapes
Oh, what a tangled web
The imbalance of nature
Populations in landscapes
Living with the neighbours
Genetics and adaptation in landscapes
Virtual worlds
Digital ecology
The global picture
English
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