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1986 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Spatially Heterogeneous Ecosystems: Pattern Formation
verfasst von : Donald L. DeAngelis, Wilfred M. Post, Curtis C. Travis
Erschienen in: Positive Feedback in Natural Systems
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Enthalten in: Professional Book Archive
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No curious person can look out over the valley of a river or stream without wondering at the obstinate refusal of the water to flow in a straight line from higher to lower ground, even when the terrain is gentle enough to allow it the opportunity. Instead, the river meanders, snake-like down the valley. This phenomenon is so counterintuitive that the nineteenth century sociologist Lester Ward offered it as an example of nature’s wastefulness of energy (see Worster, 1977, p. 175).