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Cross-Scale Morphology, Craig R. Allen, C.S. Holling
Cross-Scale Morphology, Craig R. Allen, C.S. Holling
Nebraska Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit: Staff Publications
The scaling of physical, biological, ecological and social phenomena has become 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. But there are regular patterns of departures both from those scaling laws and from continuous distributions of attributes of systems; these departures often demonstrate the development of self-organized interactions between living systems and physical processes over narrower ranges of scale. Cross-scale morphology refers to morphological attributes of animals that are influenced by interaction with ecological structures and patterns …