Systems Ecology

Encyclopedia of Ecology, Five-Volume Set

Volumn 1-5, Issue , 2008, Pages 3477-3481

  Swannack, T M ^a   Grant, W E ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity; Ecological system; Emergent properties; Hierarchy; Self organization; Self regulation; System; Systems approach; Thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79959346774     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-008045405-4.00698-4     Document Type: Chapter

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