9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. 1. Panarchies and Discontinuities 3
4. 2. Self- organization and Discontinuities in Ecosystems 20
5. 3. Discontinuity, Multimodality, and the Evolution of Pattern 31
6. 4. Discontinuities in Body- Size Distributions 45
7. 5. Patterns of Landscape Structure, Discontinuity, Mammal Phylogeny, and Body Size 61
8. 6. Biophysical Discontinuities in the Everglades Ecosystem 83
9. 7. Discontinuities in the Geo graph i cal Range Size of North American Birds and Butterflies 101
10. 8. Discontinuities in Urban Systems 136
11. 9. Evaluating the Textural Discontinuity Hypothesis 165
12. 10. Dynamic Discontinuities in Ecologic- Economic Systems 179
13. 11. The Ecological Significance of Discontinuities in Body- Mass Distributions 193
14. 12. Cross- Scale Structure and the Generation of Innovation and Novelty in Discontinuous Complex Systems 219
15. Synthesis 234
16. References 241
17. Contributors 265
18. Index 269
19. Preface vii