New book: Biological Organization

7 December 2024

New book: Biological Organization

Author: Leonardo Bich Date of publication: 04 December 2024 Publisher: Cambridge University Press The PDF version of this book is available here. Summary Living systems are complex systems made of components that tend to degrade, but nonetheless they maintain themselves far from equilibrium. This requires living systems to extract energy and materials from the environment […]

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The continental hydrological cycle from the perspective of the organizational theory of ecological functions

10 April 2024

The continental hydrological cycle from the perspective of the organizational theory of ecological functions

In a previous post, we discussed causal circularity in living systems using the continental hydrological cycle as an example (which can be consulted in the text “Do forests play a role in the continental hydrological cycle in tropical regions?”). We concluded that text by asking whether forests indeed play a role in maintaining the continental […]

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