The Ecosystem as a Multidimensional Concept: Meaning, Model, and Metaphor
The Ecosystem as a Multidimensional Concept: Meaning, Model, and Metaphor
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DOI：
10.1007/s10021-001-0051-y
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发表时间：
2002
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影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
S. Pickett;M. Cadenasso
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作者：
S. Pickett;M. Cadenasso
生态系统是一个基本的生态概念，并不像它最初出现时那么简单。我们探讨了三个关键方面的概念，使其既复杂又广泛有用的基本定义，其应用程序通过模型具体或特定的情况下，其隐喻的内涵，在科学领域内的一般通信和广大公众。明确确定这些层面是什么以及它们之间的关系有助于保持这一概念在具体科学用途上的严谨性，同时也允许在整合科学原则和公共讨论中有足够的灵活性。这种对生态系统作为一个多维度概念的分析很可能推广到生态学中的其他重要概念。
The ecosystem is a fundamental ecological concept that is not as simple as it first appears. We explore three key dimensions of the concept that make it both complex and broadly useful—its basic definition, its application via models to concrete or specific situations, and its metaphorical connotations as used in general communication within the domain of science and with the public at large. Clarity in identifying what the dimensions are and how they are related can help to maintain the rigor of the concept for specific scientific uses while also allowing enough flexibility for its use in the integration of scientific principles, as well as in public discourse. This analysis of the ecosystem as a multidimensional concept is likely to be generalizable to other important concepts in ecology.