理解复杂的生态系统动力学:系统和工程角度

理解复杂的生态系统动力学:系统和工程角度新鲜,跨学科视角复杂系统动力学。文本开头的讨论相关系统和工程技能和实践,包括一个解释的系统方法和它的主要元素。从这个角度看,作者制定一个生态系统动力学功能框架来指导生态调查。

接下来,因为复杂系统理论(跨多个主题区域)这本书的工作至关重要,相关网络理论、非线性动力学理论,元胞自动机理论,粗糙度分形理论是覆盖在一些细节。这种材料作为重要的资源书所得。上下文中的所有上述讨论和调查,一个视图的生态网络动态构造的特点。这种观点,反过来,是这本书的中心假设的基础,即。,ecological networks are ever-changing networks with propagation dynamics that are punctuated, local-to-global, and perhaps most importantly, fractal. To analyze and fully test this hypothesis, an innovative ecological network dynamics model is defined, designed, and developed. The modeling approach, which seeks to emulate features of real-world ecological networks, does not make priori assumptions about ecological network dynamics, but rather lets the dynamics develop as the model simulation runs. Model analysis results corroborate the central hypothesis. Additional important insights and principles are suggested by the model analysis results and by the other supporting investigations of this book―and can serve as a basis for going-forward complex system dynamics research, not only for ecological systems, but for complex systems in general.

附录的MATLAB代码包括建立模型的网络结构和代码和描述之间的关系,实现生态系统动力学分析的活动。此外,完整的MATLAB代码示例可供下载。