Ecological Emergence
Channel: Systems Innovation
Date: 2016-02-11

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In this video we will be talking about emergence and integration levels, central concepts within systems ecology that help to give some structure to our analysis of ecosystems. We talk about integrative levels, or levels of biological organization, as a set of phenomena emerging on pre-existing elements of a more basic form. How through the process of emergence we get many integrative levels creating a hierarchical structure that can exhibit self-similarity across many scales, called fractal structures, with smaller local phenomena nested within larger more generic structures. Finally we will discuss the complex micro macro dynamic within the hierarchy of ecologies where macro level emergent processes and structures feedback to both enable and constrain the micro level constituent components.

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