The eco-field: A new paradigm for landscape ecology |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Almo?FARINAEmail author Andrea?BELGRANO |
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Institution: | (1) Institute of Ecology and Environmental Biology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Urbino University, Italy;(2) Department of Biology, University of New Mexico, 167 Castetter Hall, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131, USA |
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Abstract: | In the spirit of the theory of biocomplexity and of the non-linear emergent characters of ecological systems, the eco-field is a new paradigm that integrates the vision of the landscape as a neutral matrix (like a habitat) in which organisms are living, and contemporarily as a product of the human mind. Eco-field is defined a cognitive field created by the interference between functional traits and the real world . Species-specific environmental suitability is the result of the quality of the different eco-fields and the landscape becomes a cognitive entity. The eco-field paradigm can be extended to the emergent properties of the systems. The eco-field of emergences is the geographic space in which the emergent properties appear. The eco-field of organisms and the eco-field of emergences, like results of aggregated entities, have in common the multidimensionality of landscapes, refusing the vision of landscape like a neutral geographic matrix for organisms and processes. |
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Keywords: | biocomplexity eco-field paradigm hierarchical level of complexity landscape ecology theory |
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