In Sophocles’ Antigone and Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King), the chief characters, Antigone, Creon, and Oedipus, become entangled in a complex web of events relating in important ways to both oikos (οἶκος) and polis (πολις), and each character threatens the existence or stability of one of the other (or both) of these spheres, by neglecting or rejecting outright their respective claims, rules and...

A. M. Ellison ([email protected]) , Harvard Forest, Harvard Univ., 324 North Main Street, Petersham, MA 01366, USA . – L. Adamec , Inst. of Botany, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Section of Plant Ecology, Dukelsk á 135, CZ-379 82 T ř ebo ň , Czech Republic. Oikos 000: 1–11, 2011 doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0706.2011.19604.x © 2011 Th e Authors. Oikos © 2011 Nordic Society Oikos Subje...

‘Grazing ecosystem’ is typically used to describe terrestrial ecosystems with high densities of mammalian herbivores such as the Serengeti in East Africa or the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem in North America. These abundant, large herbivores determine plant community dynamics and ecosystem processes. The general concepts that define grazing ecosystems also aptly describe many aquatic ecosystems...

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We introduce Oikos adtl, a speciication language for distributed systems based on asynchronous communication via remote writings. The language is designed to support the composition of speciica-tions. It allows expressing the global properties of a system in terms of the local properties of the components and of coordination templates. Oikos adtl is based on an asynchronous, distributed, tempor...

We introduce Oikos adtl, a speciication language for distributed systems based on asynchronous communication via remote writings. The language is designed to support the composition of speciica-tions. It allows expressing the global properties of a system in terms of the local properties of the components and of coordination patterns. Oikos adtl is based on an asynchronous, distributed, tempora...