MODEL BUILDING IN ECOLOGY—A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH

Abstract

The necessity and utility of a hierarchical approach to model building in ecology is discussed. Some of the basic properties of hierarchies are described and criteria to discern subsystems are shown. A new approach of measuring the resilience in terms of natural probability of occurrence of a certain perturbation has been suggested, together with a stochastic definition of stability.

Citation

dE MALHERBE, R., TRITTO, V. and dE MALHERBE, M. (1980), "MODEL BUILDING IN ECOLOGY—A HIERARCHICAL APPROACH", Kybernetes, Vol. 9 No. 2, pp. 141-150. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb005551