Systems Ecology Articles
Systems Ecology
Systems Ecology Systems ecology can be understood as the application of systems theory to the study of ecology, as it studies the interaction between organisms and their abiotic environment...
Ecosystems
An ecosystem can be defined as a physical system composed of a set of biotic and abiotic elements that are interdependent in affecting each other and the overall state of the system...
Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics, in its generalized sense, is the theory and study of how energy transforms matter within all physical systems, from the formation of stars to photosynthesis to the running of a car...
Ecological Synergies
The term synergy comes from the word meaning "working together" as it describes two or more things that interact to create a combined effect that is greater or less than each effect in isolation....
Ecological Self-Organization
Self-organization is a process in which patterns at the global level of a system emerge solely from numerous interactions among the lower-level components of the system....
Ecosystem Dynamics
Ecosystem dynamics is the study of how ecosystems change over time....
Stability Landscape
A stability landscape is a mathematical model representing the various stable and unstable states that a system (such as an ecosystem) may occupy....
Ecological Feedback Loops
Ecosystem feedback is the effect that change in one part of an ecosystem has on another and how this effect then feeds back to affect the source of the change inducing more or less of it....
Ecosystem Regime Shifts
Regime shifts are large, abrupt, systemic changes in the structure and function of a system....
Ecological Networks
An ecological network is a map of the interaction between the biotic(and possibly abiotic) elements of an ecosystem, the classical example being a food web which is a network capturing the...
The Anthropocene
The name Anthropocene is a combination of the Greek root "anthropo" meaning "human" and "cene" meaning "new."...
Industrial Ecology
Industrial ecology has arisen over the past few decades as the study to coupled environmental and industrial systems, offering a systems-based approach to modelling, designing and managing...