The emergence of systems theory in ecology, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s, was accompanied by the hope that ecology might turn into an exact science with prognostic potential and a set of uniform theoretical foundations. The impact of systems theory on ecology was manifested mainly in ...
Border Zones of Ecology and Systems Theory. In Ecology Revisited. Reflecting on Concepts, Advancing Science; Schwarz, A., Jax, K., Eds.; Springer: Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2011; pp. 385-403.Becker E, Breckling B (2011) Border Zones of Ecology and Systems Theory. In: Schwarz A, Jax...
In the theory of systems ecology, Jørgensen (2012) proposed three fundamental notions as the basis of ecological systems: 1) biomass, 2) interaction and 3) information in ecological networks. In this section we argue that ecosystem services have in fact been conceptualized as either (bio)mass...
The purposes of this book are to help in: (1) teaching the nature and theory of systems, (2) introducing the systems ecology, (3) introducing systems of nature of many scales of sizes in a comparative way, (4) using energy language to generalize the compare systems of nature and humans...
Theoretical Systems Ecology: Advances and Case Studies aims to relate systems ecology theory to theoretical systems ecologists and other theoreticians in systems science. The main language of systems theory is mathematics. This book somewhat simplifies concepts, advances, and developments of the field ...
The use of models to explain patterns, suggest experiments, or make predictions in ecology. Because ecological systems are idiosyncratic, extremely complex, and variable, ecological theory faces special challenges. Unlike physics or genetics, which use fundamental laws of gravity or of inheritance, ecol...
Using a mechanistic model based on neutral theory, we examined the effects of the ‘Carboniferous rainforest collapse’ on early tetrapod diversity. Our findings highlight the power of mechanistic models for decoding the fossil record and underscore the criticality of adjusting for sampling biases. ...
Systems Theory in Ecology Back to top Innis, George S., and Edward F. Cheslak. 1977. Systems ecology: An introductory course sequence. Paper presented at a conference held at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, in 1975. InNew directions in the analysis of ecological systems: Part 1. Ed...
Rather than explaining ecosystem structure and function under a single “unified theory,” ecologists deploy a strong and diverse body of theory to address a wide range of ecological problems (Weiner 1995; Pickett et al. 2007; Hastings and Gross 2012). Theories come in many forms—predictive sta...
ecological systems theory [Bronfenbrenner, U., The Ecology of Human Development: Experiments by Nature and Design, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, ... AK Swan - 《Journal of Women & Minorities in Science & Engineering》 被引量: 0发表: 2012年 加载更多来源...