- Title
- Constructing post-classical ecosystems ecology
- Creator
- Gao, Yin; Herfel, William
- Relation
- Philosophy of Complex Systems p. 389-416
- Relation
- Handbook of the Philosophy of Science 10
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-444-52076-0.50014-6
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2011
- Description
- This chapter focuses on articulating elements of a new dynamic perspective that is emerging from the application of self-organizing and complex adaptive systems (CAS) in ecology. New dynamic perspective is the largest contribution that complex systems dynamics is currently making to ecology today. First, it discusses some of the various complex dynamics traditions that form the intellectual backdrop for the new dynamic perspective in ecology. Further, it identifies more features of complex dynamic models in general. The mathematical techniques for modelling complex systems fall into two distinct categories. Standard dynamic models employ (normally, ordinary) differential equations to construct models of systems dynamics. These equations enable follow the “flow” of the system variables through state space. Such systems are continuous in space and time. The network models of complex adaptive systems instead employ transition rules characterizing the interaction between individual elements. These systems are discrete in space and time. The differences in the mathematical properties of these types of systems can cause subtle and difficult issues. In addition, it discusses some important philosophic implications of applying complex systems dynamics to new paradigm in ecology.
- Subject
- ecology; ecosystems; complex adaptive systems (CAS)
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1059254
- Identifier
- uon:16553
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780444520760
- Language
- eng
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