in ecosystems and other complex systems. Are ecosystems and their components continuously distributed and do they adhere … propositions over the structure of complex systems sparked an ongoing debate regarding the mechanisms generating discontinui …

underlying discontinuity hypothesis are relevant to other complex adaptive systems, and can be used to identify and track changes … cases where it has been applied to non-ecological systems, and discuss some examples of social-ecological, archaeological …/ anthropological, and economic systems where a cross-scale resilience analysis could add a quantitative dimension to our current …