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Editorial: Ecological complex systems

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Main aim of this topical issue is to report recent advances in noisy nonequilibrium processes useful to describe the dynamics of ecological systems and to address the mechanisms of spatio-temporal pattern formation in ecology both from the experimental and theoretical points of view. This is in order to understand the dynamical behaviour of ecological complex systems through the interplay between nonlinearity, noise, random and periodic environmental interactions. Discovering the microscopic rules and the local interactions which lead to the emergence of specific global patterns or global dynamical behaviour and the noise’s role in the nonlinear dynamics is an important, key aspect to understand and then to model ecological complex systems.

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  1. Institute of Physical Chemistry, National Center for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, 15310, Athens, Greece

    Astero Provata

  2. Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Newtonstr. 15, 12489, Berlin, Germany

    Igor M. Sokolov

  3. Dipartimento di Fisica e Tecnologie Relative, Group of Interdisciplinary Physics, Università di Palermo, Viale delle Scienze pad. 18, 90128, Palermo, Italy

    Bernardo Spagnolo

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Provata, A., Sokolov, I.M. & Spagnolo, B. Editorial: Ecological complex systems. Eur. Phys. J. B 65, 307–314 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjb/e2008-00380-9

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