Part I. The systems and engineering perspective -- Part II. A function-structure-process framework for ecological system dynamics -- Part III. Complex systems theory : networks, nonlinear dynamics, cellular automata, and fractals (roughness) -- Part IV. A view of the characteristics of ecological network dynamics based -- Part V. Modeling ecological network dynamics and the generation and analysis of results -- Part VI. Pulling it all altogether -- Appendix: selections from the dynamics model programmong code.