Ecosystems and the biosphere as complex adaptive systems

Levin, S. A. (1998). Ecosystems and the biosphere as complex adaptive systems. Ecosystems, 1(5), 431-436.

Type

Journal article

Intellectual base

Primary research

Year

1998

Volume

1

Issue

5

Pages

431-436

DOI

10.1007/s100219900037

DOI registrant

Springer Nature

Link

https://doi.org/10.1007/s100219900037

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systems_cybernetics

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• Complexity
  • Levin (1998) framed ecosystems and biospheres as complex adaptive systems, with implications for conservation and resource management

    This sourceFrames ecosystems and biosphere as CAS where higher-level patterns emerge from local interaction and selection; nonlinearity, historical dependency, multiple outcomes — supports D26-083. Verified existing and supporting.

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    Levin treats ecosystems and the biosphere as complex adaptive systems, extracting "six fundamental questions that must be addressed to understand ecosystems as complex adaptive systems". He also states that strong management implications follow from the answers: sustainable approaches to system use require understanding what maintains resilience and how human intervention might affect it, with the loss of biodiversity and of the services people depend on among the concerns. That is the framing and the management implication the sentence attributes to the work.

    “Ecosystems, and indeed the global biosphere, are prototypical examples of complex adaptive systems”

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