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Computing the adaptive cycle.

Sci. Rep. 10:18175 (2020)
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Gunderson's and Holling's adaptive cycle metaphor provides a qualitative description of the development of a dynamically evolving complex system. According to the metaphor, a complex system alternately passes through phases of stability and predictability and phases of reorganization and stochasticity. So far, there have been no attempts to quantify the underlying notions in a way which is independent of the concrete realization of the system. We propose a method which can be applied in a generic way to estimate a system's position within the adaptive cycle as well as to identify drivers of change. We demonstrate applicability and flexibility of our method by three different case studies: Analyzing data obtained from a simulation of a model of interaction of abstract genotypes, we show that our approach is able to capture the nature of these interactions. We then study European economies as systems of economic state variables to illustrate the ability of system comparison. Finally, we identify drivers of change in a plant ecosystem in the prairie-forest. We hereby confirm the conceptual dynamics of the adaptive cycle and thus underline its usability in understanding system dynamics.
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Publication type Article: Journal article
Document type Scientific Article
Keywords Resilience; Eurozone
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Publication Year 2020
HGF-reported in Year 2020
ISSN (print) / ISBN 2045-2322
e-ISSN 2045-2322
Quellenangaben Volume: 10, Issue: 1, Pages: , Article Number: 18175 Supplement: ,
Publisher Nature Publishing Group
Publishing Place London
Reviewing status Peer reviewed
POF-Topic(s) 30505 - New Technologies for Biomedical Discoveries
Research field(s) Enabling and Novel Technologies
PSP Element(s) G-503890-001
Grants Projekt DEAL
Scopus ID 85093914631
PubMed ID 33097789
Erfassungsdatum 2020-12-03