HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Allen, T. F. H., author.
Subjects
Ecology -- Methodology.
Ecology -- Mathematical models.
Ecology -- Philosophy.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Allen, T. F. H., author.
by title:
Hierarchy : perspect...
MARC Display
Hierarchy : perspectives for ecological complexity / T. F. H. Allen and Thomas B. Starr.
by
Allen, T. F. H., author.
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2017.
Subjects
Ecology -- Methodology.
Ecology -- Mathematical models.
Ecology -- Philosophy.
ISBN:
9780226489544 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
022648954X (hardcover ; alkaline paper)
9780226489681 (paperback ; alkaline paper) :
022648968X (paperback ; alkaline paper)
Description:
417 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Edition:
Second edition.
Contents:
Introduction -- A theory for medium number systems -- Hierarchies -- The Janus-faced holon -- Scales and filters -- Sirens of certainty -- Origins of life as a complex medium number system -- A wrinkle in time: evolution by preadaptation -- Functional and structural boundaries -- The self-replicating hierarchy -- Scaling strategies -- Scale and complex systems -- Identifying the scale in community ecology -- Hierarchy as a context for modeling and simulation -- Diversity and connectedness -- Scale as an investigative tool.
Requests:
0
Summary:
"Ecosystems are incredibly complex, non-linear structures and self-organized entities; they cannot be described by simple models or by statistical approaches. Within each ecosystem are scores of individuals interacting continuously with others and with their biotic and abiotic surroundings, over vast geographic spaces, and over varying time scales as well. To approach the enormity of this complexity, ecologists have developed tools to simplify and aggregate information, and among them is Hierarchy Theory. Instead of analyzing the whole structure to understand the functions of the system, Hierarchy Theory analyzes hierarchical levels only and the interactions between them. It draws upon two different paradigms of complexity, reductionism and holism, adapting the most useful features of each into a viable means of studying ecosystems. It reduces the amount of data the researcher has to deal with, and it explicitly considers the relevant entities and interconnections of a larger complex system according to a specific research question. Originally published in 1982, Hierarchy was the first book to apply the tool to ecological systems. In the three decades since its publication, the work has influenced myriad large scale research initiatives in ecology, and this new, thoroughly revised edition reflects the assimilation of the theory in ecological research, and its successful application to the understanding of complex systems. "--Provided by publisher.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Business, Science & Technology
577 Al
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.