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(1979) Philosophy in geography, Dordrecht, Springer.
Spatial systems may be organized hierarchically so that large high order areas in a system may collect flows from, or deliver flows to, small low order areas in the system. Examples at a geographical spatial scale are rivers, alpine glaciers and central place systems. Examples in the organic realm are at a much smaller scale, i.e., trees, blood vessels, airways, bile ducts, and even the microscopic branching of the Purkinje cell in the brain.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-9394-5_20
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Woldenberg, M. J. (1979)., A periodic table of spatial hierarchies, in S. Gale & G. Olsson (eds.), Philosophy in geography, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 429-456.
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