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International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics

2nd Edition, as published by Charles François 2004 Presented by the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science Vienna for public access.

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The International Encyclopedia of Systems and Cybernetics was first edited and published by the system scientist Charles François in 1997. The online version that is provided here was based on the 2nd edition in 2004. It was uploaded and gifted to the center by ASC president Michael Lissack in 2019; the BCSSS purchased the rights for the re-publication of this volume in 200?. In 2018, the original editor expressed his wish to pass on the stewardship over the maintenance and further development of the encyclopedia to the Bertalanffy Center. In the future, the BCSSS seeks to further develop the encyclopedia by open collaboration within the systems sciences. Until the center has found and been able to implement an adequate technical solution for this, the static website is made accessible for the benefit of public scholarship and education.

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ECO-INVASION 1)2)4)

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The colonization of a new territory by a vegetal or animal species.

Hundred of dramatic cases are known on all continents. New ones appear every year. Some of them generate enormous economic costs, as for example the South American water hyacinth in Central Africa and in South Asia.

Eco-invasion is perhaps the most significant ecological issue of our time. It started to be an important phenomenon at the time of the great geographical discoveries and its main agent has been, and still is, man. (See Chr. BRIGHT, 1998)

An invading species is frequently devoid of any natural parasite in its new settings. Moreover it benefits in most cases of some advantage as a competitor or predator of older established species. As a result, more than a third of all endangered species of the world are victims of exotic invaders.

From a systemic viewpoint, it is a result of massive development and acceleration of world communications, which are connecting in an evermore efficient way biotopes which were formerly isolated from each others.

The model could be of interest in social sciences.

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  • 1) General information
  • 2) Methodology or model
  • 3) Epistemology, ontology and semantics
  • 4) Human sciences
  • 5) Discipline oriented

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Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science(2020).

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