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Complexity and Complex Ecological Systems covers the basic aspects of analysis, synthesis and optimization of ecological systems. The book focuses on the study of environmental systems, presenting how organisms behave and live with each other in unique physical environs. It covers ecology-related topics, such as biological diversity in fluid systems, living complexity behavior, and organismic changes in unique environments, as well as other ecological problems such as biological organization, life with each other, energy degradation, gradient reduction, organisms' adaptation, population dynamics, spatial patterns, ecological integrity, sustainability and environmental strategies.
This complexity-oriented book complements Sieniutycz' recently published books Complexity and Complex Thermo-Economic Systems and Complexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems.
List of contents
1. Early Works in Ecology and Ecological Optimization 2. Further Development of Thermodynamic Views in Ecology 3. Ascendent Perspective of Ulanowicz 4. Genetic diversity and the spread of populations 5. Robust statistic inference for complex computer models 6. Trophic Relations of Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystems 7. Dynamic Food Webs 8. Outline of Mathematical Ecology 9. Optimizing in Ecological Systems
About the author
Stanislaw Sieniutycz is a former member of the Committee of Engineering at the Polish Academy of Sciences and also a professor of chemical engineering at the Warsaw University of Technology, Poland. His research focuses on problems of chemical, environmental, ecological, and biomechanical engineering with emphasis on analysis, control, and optimization of these systems. He is a former member of the Editorial Board of Open System and Information Dynamics and an honorary editor of the Journal of Non-Equilibrium Thermodynamics. He has served as an associate editor of Advances in Thermodynamics Series and Energy & Conversion Management. He has published 12 books, 250 articles, and 152 conference papers. He has been a visiting professor at the University of Budapest, University of Bern, University of San Diego, University of Delaware, and University of Chicago.
