The Complexity of Ecosystems

The modular approach sort of appeals to our attraction to reductionism, right. But it really does oversimplify what's really going on. I think that we need to move in a more computational and mathematical way of describing the system. Many of these systems have nonlinear cascades of events that are so sensitive to the local conditions they can develop in very different ways even in nearly repeatable initial conditions.

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