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Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems
- Title
- Discontinuities in ecosystems and other complex systems / Craig R. Allen and C.S. Holling, editors.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2008], ©2008.
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- Description
- xii, 272 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- Complexity in ecological systems series
- Uniform Title
- Complexity in ecological systems series.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-263) and index.
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Background -- 1. Panarchies and Discontinuities / Crawford S. Holling, Garry D. Peterson and Craig R. Allen -- 2. Self-organization and Discontinuities in Ecosystems / Garry D. Peterson -- 3. Discontinuity, Multimodality, and the Evolution of Pattern / Graeme S. Cumming and Tanya D. Havlicek -- 4. Discontinuities in Body-Size Distributions: A View from the Top / Pablo A. Marquet, Sebastian Abades, Juan E. Keymer and Horacio Zeballos -- Pt. 2. Patterns -- 5. Patterns of Landscape Structure, Discontinuity, Mammal Phylogeny, and Body Size / Jan P. Sendzimir -- 6. Biophysical Discontinuities in the Everglades Ecosystem / Lance H. Gunderson -- 7. Discontinuities in the Geographical Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies / Carla Restrepo and Natalia Arango -- 8. Discontinuities in Urban Systems: Comparison of Regional City-Size Structure in the United States / Ahjond S. Garmestani, Craig R. Allen and K. Michael Bessey -- 9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis: A Case for Adaptive Inference / Craig A. Stow, Jan P. Sendzimir and Crawford S. Holling -- Pt. 3. Consequences -- 10. Dynamic Discontinuities in Ecologic-Economic Systems / J. Barkley Rosser, Jr. -- 11. The Ecological Significance of Discontinuities in Body-Mass Distributions / Jennifer J. Skillen and Brian A. Maurer -- 12. Cross-Scale Structure and the Generation of Innovation and Novelty in Discontinuous Complex Systems / Craig R. Allen and Crawford S. Holling -- Synthesis / Donald Ludwig.
- ISBN
- 9780231144445 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 023114444X (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780231144452
- 0231144458
- 9780231516822 (ebook)
- 0231516827 (ebook)
- LCCN
- 2008006382
- OCLC
- ocn184821814
- 184821814
- SCSB-5415346
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries