Two Ways to Discover Disturbance
Ecological disturbance is often defined as an event that disrupts the structure of a specific system (Pickett & White, 1985). This kind of material or physical disruption is important because […]
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The Evolution of Urban Heterogeneity Thinking
The heterogeneity of cities has been acknowledged as one of their most striking features for a very long time. Spatial heterogeneity characterized the ancient, cosmologically oriented cities of the Middle […]
The Human Ecosystem: What’s Missing?
The human ecosystem concept is one of the most common tools used in the Baltimore Ecosystem Study LTER. Adopted from a team of social ecologists and sociologists who were involved […]
Just One Book a Year — That’s All We Ask.
BES is a far flung, disciplinarily diverse project. We do many things to apply centripetal force to a situation that seems naturally to be dissipative. One centering activity is to […]
Coupled? Hybrid? Or Just Systems?
Having recently returned from the first Congress of the Society of Urban Ecology, I can report that there was a lot of talk in the plenary sessions about the nature […]
Press-Pulse Dynamics: A Hypothetical Feedback Model for Long-Term Social-Ecological Research
An important conceptual resource for BES III has recently appeared online. This publication presents the feedback cycle between social and ecological structures and functions as mediated by ecosystem services and […]
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