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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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Two by Two Gentoo (Paperback)
Suzanne Sadedin; Illustrated by Nandina Vines; Tracey Hinton
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R296
Discovery Miles 2 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This book examines key concepts and analytical approaches in
complexity theory as it applies to landscape ecology, including
complex networks, connectivity, criticality, feedback, and
self-organisation. It then reviews the ways that these ideas have
led to new insights into the nature of ecosystems and the role of
processes in landscapes. The updated edition explores innovations
in ecotechnology, including automated monitoring, big data,
simulation and machine learning, and shows how they are
revolutionizing ecology by making it possible to deal more
effectively with complexity. Addressing the topic in a progression
of ideas from small to large, and from simple to sophisticated, the
book examines the implications of complexity for major
environmental issues of our time, particularly the urgencies of
climate change and loss of biodiversity. Understanding ecological
complexity is crucial in today's globalized and interconnected
world. Successful management of the world's ecosystems must combine
models of ecosystem complexity with biodiversity, environmental,
geographic, and socioeconomic data. The book examines the impact of
humans on landscapes and ecosystems, as well as efforts to embed
sustainability, commerce and industrial development in the larger
context of ecosystem services and ecological economics.
Well-established as researchers in the field, the authors provide a
new perspective on current and future understanding of complexity
in landscape ecology. The new edition offers a non-technical
account of the topic, so it is both accessible and informative for
general readers. For students of ecology, it provides a fresh
approach to classical ideas.
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