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Symposium
22: Qualitatively wider scope and failed models: New paradigms for tired old
myths
Friday,
August 12, 8 AM - 11:30 AM, Meeting Room 517a, Level 5, Palais
des congrès de Montréal
Organizer:
Timothy Allen (tfallen@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Description: Scale
change may not just mean more or less of the same, sometimes it is qualitative,
and the discourse shifts. Old models, that used to work, fail. This is a facet
of complexity and hierarchy theory that has consequences all over applied and
basic ecology as a practical matter. In a heterogeneous, more inclusive world,
many old ecological models deserve to be sidelined by new conceptions, invisible
as it may be to practitioners or those deeply invested. The speakers today each
rebut an old model or class of discourse, and present an alternatively
circumscribed scope with details that matter. The ecology presented is expressly
from different ecological arenas: sexual selection, thermodynamics, plasticity,
ecological economics, resource use, and more. Scale
change complexity is not just for specialists. The different sorts of ecologists
here are only secondarily expert complexity scientists. This notion applies in
your specialty too, whatever sort of ecologist you are.
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