Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit
Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications
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Date of this Version
2013
Citation
Garmestani, A.S., C. R. Allen, and C. S. Holling. 2013. Cross-scale morphology. In A. H. El-Shaarawi and W. W. Piegorsch, editors. Encyclopedia of Environmetrics. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester, UK.
Abstract
The scaling of physical, biological, ecological, and social phenomena is a major focus of efforts to develop simple representations of complex systems. Much of the attention has been on discovering universal scaling laws that emerge from simple physical and geometric processes. However, there are regular patterns of departures both from those scaling laws and from continuous distributions of attributes of systems. Those departures often demonstrate the development of self-organized interactions between living systems and physical processes over narrower ranges of scale.
Comments
US government work.