"Uncertainty, thus, is the parent of #biodiversity, and localized #disturbances such as #fires --which, at least up to a point, increase the level of #uncertainty-- are key to the maintenance of #diversity"
--Simon A. Levin 1999
"... This power law is not a law in the same sense as a geometric law or a law of physics; when we refer to laws in #ecology, we generally mean that there are statistical regularities that seem robust over a wide range of examples"
--Simon A. Levin 1999
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