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The mechanistic paradigm is gone, so the scientific description of natural phenomena is shifting to a point of view where every event or situation is thought as the concrete realization of a set of possible events or situations, and consequently what is relevant is to describe the probabilities associated to the different events or transitions among them. The image of a stable universe composed of immutable orbits and equilibria modelled by normal distributions and linear relations between the variables is fading away, diluted in the colossal flow of incoming data.
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Gutiérrez, E., Guardans, R., Canela, M.A. (1988). Different Responses in Ecosystems to Environmental Stress. In: Wolff, W., Soeder, CJ., Drepper, F.R. (eds) Ecodynamics. Research Reports in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73953-8_19
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