Complexity and Complex Ecological Systems
- 1st Edition - March 22, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Stanislaw Sieniutycz
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 2 3 7 - 1
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 1 9 2 3 8 - 8
Complexity and Complex Ecological Systems is an extension of Elsevier’s 2021 book Complexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems directed toward the analysis and synthesis of divers… Read more
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Request a sales quoteComplexity and Complex Ecological Systems is an extension of Elsevier’s 2021 book Complexity and Complex Chemo-Electric Systems directed toward the analysis and synthesis of diverse ecological processes running in heterogeneous macrosystems. Contemporary advanced techniques such as averaged analysis, food webs approaches, and classical optimization results along with some numerical algorithms are commonly used in ecosystems. This book treats ecological systems as specific functional integrities. In Complexity and Complex Ecological Systems, one can observe how various types of ecological heterogeneities can contribute to flows of living and inanimate parts of the moving pseudo-continuum.
This book is a valuable reference for scientists, engineers, and graduate students of environmental, chemical, and biological engineering, helping them better understand complex macroscopic systems and enhance their technical skills in theoretical and practical research.
- Covers the basic aspects of modeling, analysis, synthesis, and optimization of ecological systems
- Contains theory of selected ecosystems and explanations of how it can be used in applications
- Includes original drawings and drafts that illustrate the properties of diverse ecosystems
- Written by an expert in advanced methods of biophysics and macroscopic physics
University students and researchers in theoretical and applied ecology specialized in energy sources. Researchers in industry involved in operations linked with unit processes, e.g. chemical transformation or purification of out-coming streams. Researchers in industry involved in the environment, linked with chemical or other processes, e.g. chemical transformation or purification of outgoing streams
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- References
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Early works in ecology and ecological approaches
- Abstract
- 1.1: Introduction
- 1.2: Classical thermodynamics and the second law
- 1.3: Extended laws of thermodynamics
- 1.4: Dissipative structures, degraders, and related problems
- 1.5: Destructive entropy production
- 1.6: The origin of life: A brief introduction
- 1.7: Thermodynamics of ecosystems as energy degraders
- 1.8: Order from disorder and order from order
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 2: Further development of thermodynamic views in ecology
- Abstract
- 2.1: Introduction
- 2.2: Thermodynamics and ecology
- 2.3: Thermodynamics and living world
- 2.4: The origin of quantification: A brief introduction
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 3: Ascendant perspective of Ulanowicz
- Abstract
- 3.1: Introduction
- 3.2: A cause driving the development
- 3.3: Quantification of growth and development
- 3.4: System ascendancy
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 4: Genetic diversity and the spread of populations
- Abstract
- 4.1: Introduction
- 4.2: Methods
- 4.3: Results
- 4.4: Discussion
- Appendix
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 5: Robust statistical inference for complex computer models
- Abstract
- 5.1: Introduction
- 5.2: Why does the model error affect statistics differently?
- 5.3: A toolbox for statistical inference in complex computer simulations
- 5.4: Discussion
- References
- Chapter 6: Biodiversity maintenance in food webs
- Abstract
- 6.1: Introduction
- 6.2: Toward trophic relationships of coastal and estuarine ecosystems
- 6.3: Benthic-pelagic coupling and sediment transport
- 6.4: Plecoptera (Stoneflies)
- 6.5: Mangrove trophic interactions and estuarine ecosystems
- 6.6: Spatial aspects of food webs
- 6.7: Summary
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 7: Dynamic food webs
- Abstract
- 7.1: Introduction
- 7.2: Food-web science on the path from abstraction to prediction
- 7.3: Food webs as units
- 7.4: Components of food webs
- 7.5: Food-web links
- 7.6: Drivers of temporal and spatial variation
- 7.7: Theories, tests, and applications
- 7.8: Discussion and conclusions
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 8: Outline of mathematical ecology by E.C. Pielou
- Abstract
- 8.1: Pielou's preface and introduction
- 8.2: Population dynamics
- 8.3: Spatial patterns in one-species populations
- 8.4: Spatial relations of two or more species
- 8.5: Many species populations
- 8.6: Feldman's (1969) review
- References
- Further reading
- Chapter 9: Optimizing in ecological systems
- Abstract
- 9.1: Introducing the standard form of continuous optimization problem
- 9.2: Dynamic programming investigation of optimal quality function
- 9.3: Continuous maximum principle
- 9.4: Solving methods for maximum principle equations
- 9.5: Discrete versions of maximum principle
- 9.6: Classification and comparison of computational methods for optimization
- References
- Glossary
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 22, 2023
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 186
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443192371
- eBook ISBN: 9780443192388
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Stanislaw Sieniutycz
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.
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Professor of Chemical Engineering, Warsaw University of Technology, Faculty of Chemical and Process Engineering, PolandRead Complexity and Complex Ecological Systems on ScienceDirect