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The Odum Legacy: Plant Systems Across Scales Caomhanach, Nuala [1]. The Odum Brothers and Nature’s Pulsing Paradigm. In the 20th century, brothers Eugene and Howard Odum were at the forefront of the groundbreaking discipline of ecology in the United States. In the 1950s and 1960s, they initiated transformational shifts in conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to understand complex and dynamic systems in ecological studies. By viewing nature as a network of habitats, called ecosystems, their research laid a firm foundation for systems ecology. In their book, “Fundamentals of Ecology", they firmly stressed the importance of studying the whole system, and not only individual parts of ecosystems. This presentation will explore the historical context for the development and evolution of the Odum brothers’ transdisciplinary use of cybernetics and ecoenergetics. In this pre-microcomputing era, their pioneering research was provocative, highly debated and revolutionizing.
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1 - American Museum of Natural History
Keywords:
systems biology
ecology
Cybernetics
Howard T. Odum
Eugene P. Odum
Ecoenergetics.
Presentation Type: Symposium Presentation
Session: SY02, The Odum Legacy: Plant Systems Across Scales
Location: Chatham Ballroom - C/Savannah International Trade and Convention Center
Date: Monday, August 1st, 2016
Time: 8:30 AM
Number: SY02001
Abstract ID:660
Candidate for Awards:None | 
