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An Empirically Based Approach to Self-Organization in Forest Ecosystems

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The concept of synergetics is applied to forest ecosystem theory in order to bridge the current gap to forestry and land-use planning. Forest ecosystem types are introduced as statistical ensembles populating the basins of attraction of natural and man-made forests in multidimensional ecological state spaces. Ecosystem types can be considered as elementary units of a holistic approach to ecosystems. A universally applicable formalism is developed to derive, to model, and to visualize forest ecosystem types from an ecological data set. A series of natural and artificial forest ecosystem types of the Northeast German lowlands is modeled in an ecogram in dependence on nutrient and water supply status. The practical applications of the presented approach are discussed finally.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Systems Research, University of Osnabrück, 49069, Osnabrück, Germany

    Michael Matthies  & Horst Malchow  & 

  2. Department of Psychology and Health Sciences, University of Osnabrück, 49069, Osnabrück, Germany

    Jürgen Kriz

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Dedicated to Prof. Dr. habil. Gerhard Hofmann, on the occasion of his 70th birthday

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Jenssen, M. (2001). An Empirically Based Approach to Self-Organization in Forest Ecosystems. In: Matthies, M., Malchow, H., Kriz, J. (eds) Integrative Systems Approaches to Natural and Social Dynamics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-56585-4_14

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