The organizational approach of ecological systems: some steps further

Nei Nunes-Neto (Institute of Biology. Federal University of Bahia. National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE). Brazil), El-Hani Charbel (Institute of Biology. Federal University of Bahia. National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE). Brazil) , Lefevre Victor (University of Paris1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. France) In this work we present a more elaborated version of the organizational approach of ecological systems, where we aim: 1) To broaden the scope of the functional items in order to include the items of geodiversity or abiotic parts of ecosystems; 2) To point to the organizational approach as a ground to biodiversity itself; 3) To elaborate on the individuality of ecological systems from an organizational point of view. Besides these three main elaborations, we have also been working on the metatheoretical nature of the work we have been developing.