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Book SynopsisAre ecosystems and their components continuously distributed and do they adhere to scaling laws, or are they discontinuous and more complex than early models would have us believe? This book argues that ecosystems are inherently discontinuous and that ecology, economics, and urban studies benefit from this paradigm shift.
Trade ReviewDiscontinuities in Ecosystems and Other Complex Systems... is another interesting entry in the resilience literature. Conservation Biology
Table of ContentsPreface Part I. Background 1. Panarchies and Discontinuities, by Crawford S. Holling and Garry D. Peterson 2. Self-organization and Discontinuities in Ecosystems, by Garry D. Peterson 3. Discontinuity, by Multimodality, by Graeme S. Cumming and Tanya D. Havlicek 4. Discontinuities in Body-Size Distributions: A View from the Top, by Pablo A. Marquet, by Sebastian Abades Part II. Patterns 5. Patterns of Landscape Structure, by Discontinuity, by Jan P. Sendzimir 6. Biophysical Discontinuities in the Everglades Ecosystem, by Lance H. Gunderson 7. Discontinuities in the Geographical Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies, by Carla Restrepo and Natalia Arango 8. Discontinuities in Urban Systems: Comparison of Regional City-Size Structure in the United States, by Ahjond S. Garmestani, by Craig R. Allen 9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis: A Case for Adaptive Inference, by Craig A. Stow, by Jan P. Sendzimir Part III. Consequences 10. Dynamic Discontinuities in Ecologic-Economic Systems, by J. Barkley Rosser Jr. 11. The Ecological Significance of Discontinuities in Body-Mass Distributions, by Jennifer J. Skillen and Brian A. Maurer 12. Cross-Scale Structure and the Generation of Innovation and Novelty in Discontinuous Complex Systems, by Craig R. Allen and Crawford S. Holling Synthesis Donald Ludwig References Contributors Index
