Odum School Faculty

Bernard C. Patten Regent's Professor Odum School of Ecology University of Georgia Ecology Bldg. Athens, GA   30602-2602 (706) 542-6035 Fax: (706) 542-3390 e-mail: bmpatten@earthlink.net Graduate Faculty

Education
Ph.D. - Rutgers

Research Interests
Systems ecology
Comparative ecosystems

Research Projects
Ecological network theory: applications to ecosystem structure and function, indirect effects, trophic dynamics and utility.

Selected Publications
Patten, B. C., and Fath, B. D. 2000.  The network variable in ecology: a partial account of Georgia systems ecology, with research sketches from the Okefenokee.  Chapter 10, pages 168-222, in Barrett, G. W., Barrett, T. L, and Smith, M. H. (eds.). Holistic Science: The Evolution of the Georgia Odum School of Ecology (1940-2000).  Gordon and Breach Science Publishers.

Jørgensen, S. E., B. C. Patten, and M. Straskraba. 2000.  Ecosystems emerging: growth.  Ecol. Mod. 126: 149-284.

Fath, B. D. and B. C. Patten. 1999.  Review of the foundations of network environ analysis.  Ecosystems 2: 167-179.

Fath, B. D. and B. C. Patten. 1999. Network synergism: emergence of positive relations in ecological models.  Ecol. Mod. 107: 127-143.

Patten, B. C. 1999.  Out of the Clockworks-Ecology, The Ascendent Perspective by Robert E. Ulanowicz, Columbia University Press, New York. Estuaries (book review & critique): 22(2A): 339-342.

Patten, B. C. 1998.  Steps toward a cosmography of ecosystems: orientors for directional development, self-organization, and autoevolution.  In Müller, F., and Leupelt, M., Eco Targets, Goal Functions, and Orientors. Proc. Worshop on Unifying Goal Functions, August 30-September 4, 1996, Salzau, Germany.  Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.  pp. 137-160, 619 p.

Patten, B. C. 1998.  Ecology's AWFUL Theorem: sustaining sustainability. Ecol. Mod. 108: 97-105.

Patten, B. C. and  S. E. Jørgensen. (eds.). 1995.  Complex Ecology. The Part-Whole Relation in Ecosystems. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey. 705 p.

Patten, B. C. 1995. Environs, emergy, transformity and energy value. In Hall, C.A.S. (ed.). Maximum Power: Application of the Ideas of Howard Odum to Ecology, Economics and Engineering. University of Colorado Press, Niwot, Colorado.  pp. 255-278.

Last Updated: January 22, 2007

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