Ecosystems and the Biosphere as Complex Adaptive Systems

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Sea Otters: Their Role in Structuring Nearshore Communities

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Self-Organized Criticality

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9. Biologically Generated Spatial Pattern and the Coexistence of Competing Species

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Evolution and spatial structure interact to influence plant–herbivore population and community dynamics

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The runaway universe

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Sustainability and resilience for transformation in the urban century

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Looking inside the spiky bits: a critical review and conceptualisation of entrepreneurial ecosystems

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The role of the microbiome in exacerbations of chronic lung diseases

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Towards an ecology of the lung: new conceptual models of pulmonary microbiology and pneumonia pathogenesis

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Answering Schrödinger's question: A free-energy formulation

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Stewardship of global collective behavior

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Three-dimensional Microorganization of the Soil–Root–Microbe System

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A core microbiome signature as an indicator of health

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Guild-based analysis for understanding gut microbiome in human health and diseases

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Parallel ecological networks in ecosystems

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Seeing the Forest and not the Trees: Learning from Nature’s Circular Economy

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Linking climate to population variability in marine ecosystems characterized by non-simple dynamics: Conceptual templates and schematic constructs

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Crafting actionable knowledge on ecological intensification: Lessons from co-innovation approaches in Uruguay and Europe

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Agroecological transitions: a mathematical perspective on a transdisciplinary problem

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Measuring and Modeling the U.S. Regulatory Ecosystem

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Operating Room Management at the Edge of Order and Chaos.

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Modeling and Simulation Analysis of a Complex Adaptive Systems of Systems Approach to Naval Tactical Warfare

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On principles and rules in complex adaptive systems: A financial system case study

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Marine Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Emergent Patterns, Critical Transitions, and Public GoodsPreprint

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Marine Ecosystems as Complex Adaptive Systems: Emergent Patterns, Critical Transitions, and Public Goods

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