Ecological Complex Systems
arXiv:0810.1223 · doi:10.1140/epjb/e2008-00380-9
Abstract
Main aim of this topical issue is to report recent advances in noisy nonequilibrium processes useful to describe the dynamics of ecological systems and to address the mechanisms of spatio-temporal pattern formation in ecology both from the experimental and theoretical points of view. This is in order to understand the dynamical behaviour of ecological complex systems through the interplay between nonlinearity, noise, random and periodic environmental interactions. Discovering the microscopic rules and the local interactions which lead to the emergence of specific global patterns or global dynamical behaviour and the noises role in the nonlinear dynamics is an important, key aspect to understand and then to model ecological complex systems.
13 pages, Editorial of a topical issue on Ecological Complex System to appear in EPJ B, Vol. 65 (2008)
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