Editorial: Ecological complex systems

Ecological Complex Systems

Astero Provata, Igor M. Sokolov, and Bernardo Spagnolo ♯ Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for Scientific Research ”Demokritos”, 15310 Athens, Greece ∗ Institut fur Physik, Humboldt-Universitat zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, D-12489 Berlin † and ⋆ Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative and CNISM-INFM, Group of Interdisciplinary Physics, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze...

Modeling complex ecological systems: an introduction

The world is replete with all kinds of complex systems, be they ecological, social, economic, or political. Nevertheless, complex systems share several common characteristics. First, they are thermodynamically open, meaning that they exchange energy and/or mass with their environment. Second, they are often composed of a large number of diverse components. Third, system components interact with...

Ecological Systems as Complex Systems: Challenges for an Emerging Science

Complex systems science has contributed to our understanding of ecology in important areas such as food webs, patch dynamics and population fluctuations. This has been achieved through the use of simple measures that can capture the difference between order and disorder and simple models with local interactions that can generate surprising behaviour at larger scales. However, close examination ...

Complex fuzzy linear systems

Editorial: Hybrid Solutions for the Modeling of Complex Environmental Systems