# Systems Ecology **Domain:** Ecology / Systems Theory / Energetics **Doc Type:** Canonical Discipline Node **Maturity:** Developed ## Definition **Systems ecology** studies ecosystems through flows of energy, matter and information, feedback, networks and cross-scale organization. ## Evolutionary Nexus [[articles/The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley|The Evolutionary Roots of Silicon Valley]] needs systems ecology to connect serpentine communities, patch populations and human-built technical niches without reducing ecology to metaphor. ## Machine-Intelligence Context Models and data centers occupy energy and material networks. Their effects include extraction, cooling, labor and institutional feedback. Systems ecology therefore supplies the metabolic layer missing from accounts of intelligence as pure information. ## See Also [[wiki/Ecology|Ecology]], [[wiki/Energetic Sovereignty|Energetic Sovereignty]], [[wiki/Complex Systems|Complex Systems]], [[wiki/Planetary Stewardship|Planetary Stewardship]]