title: Evolution Mechanics and Perspectives on Food Web Ecology
creator: Sevinchan, Yunus
subject: ddc-500
subject: 500 Natural sciences and mathematics
subject: ddc-530
subject: 530 Physics
subject: ddc-550
subject: 550 Earth sciences
subject: ddc-570
subject: 570 Life sciences
description: The question how hierarchically modularised structures arise from simpler ones is of central importance when desiring to understand our world.  To that end, I present the Evolution Mechanics framework which aims to find a concise description of the mechanisms by which evolutionary systems unfold into hierarchically organised modules. While inspired by the evolution of biological life, Evolution Mechanics is abstracted from it and takes a more general perspective, providing a consistent language to address the fundamental processes giving rise to the complexity we observe all around and within us.  In a second part, I study the evolution and behaviour of ecological interaction networks. Using an evolutionary food web model, I investigate the structures that arise within it, its response to local and global perturbations, and its capacity to be resilient against these perturbations. These studies not only illustrate aspects of Evolution Mechanics, but stress the importance of taking into account evolutionary processes when aiming to understand these systems.
date: 2021
type: Dissertation
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/30750/1/210827-phd-thesis.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00030750
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-307506
identifier:   Sevinchan, Yunus  (2021) Evolution Mechanics and Perspectives on Food Web Ecology.  [Dissertation]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/30750/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng