Complexity in Landscape Ecology

• Main Authors: Green, David G. (Author), Klomp, Nicholas (Author), Rimmington, Glyn (Author), Sadedin, Suzanne (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Landscape Series ; 4
• Subjects: Life sciences.; Ecology.; Landscape ecology.; Statistical physics.; Dynamical systems.; Life Sciences.; Landscape Ecology.; Theoretical Ecology/Statistics.; Statistical Physics, Dynamical Systems and Complexity.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.

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 pro...

Table of Contents:

• 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.