Landscape Ecology vol 1 no 2 pp 75-83 1987 SPB Academic Publishing The Hague Biocybernetic and thermodynamic perspectives of landscape functions


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    • Author:  by And Land Use  Zev Naveh  

    • Abstract:  This paper develops and applies two concepts which are fundamental to landscape ecology. These concepts concern biocybernetics, which is the theory of regulation of biological and ecological systems, and ther- modynamics, especially the flux of energy and the production of entropy. The landscape state factors, in- cluding site conditions and fluxes of energy, materials, and organisms, are shaped by the biocybernetic and thermodynamic processes. This theory provides us a way of understanding and discussing complex human interactions with landscape systems, expressing our concept of the whole landscape system (what I have termed the Total Human Ecosystem), and linking landscape ecologywith severalof the most powerfully crea- tive ideas in modern science.

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