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It is astounding how systems in nature can survive under completely different environmental conditions and in the presence of huge parameter variations. Structural analysis aims at explaining why this is possible by studying properties of biological models that hold regardless of parameter values. Here, we discuss selected system properties that have been successfully investigated and explained just looking at the structure, without the need of quantitative information.
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Blanchini, F., Franco, E., Giordano, G. (2021). Structural Properties of Biological and Ecological Systems. In: Baillieul, J., Samad, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Systems and Control. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44184-5_100060
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