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"The study of ecological complexity treats an ecosystem 
as a complex system. Complex systems are typically described by the age-old phrase “the whole is more than the sum of the parts”. 
We have defined a complex system as “a network of many components whose aggregate behavior is both due to, and gives rise to, multiple-scale structural and dynamical patterns which are not inferable from a system description that spans only a narrow window of resolution” (Parrott and Kok, 2000). Essential characteristics of a complex system include: local interactions between individual components, feedbacks between processes occurring at different scales, amplification of minor variations in initial conditions, and the emergence of patterns in the absence of a global controller. Typical examples of complex systems include: ecosystems, economies, transportation networks and neural systems."

in http://complexity.ok.ubc.ca/about/ecological-complexity/



"Interactions matter. To understand the distributions of plants and animals in a landscape you need to understand how they interact with each other, and with their environment."

in https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9781402042850