Ask HN: Good book on resilience of natural systems, for non-biologists?

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I find the way how natural systems (animals, plants) organize and respond to outside influences interesting and would like to learn from that - is there some good book that is understandable for engineers with just common understanding of biology?

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This isn't a biology book but does tall about resilient systems in an accessible way:

https://www.chelseagreen.com/product/thinking-in-systems/

Try _Wood: The Internal Optimization of Trees_ [1], or anything else by Mattheck.

My background is more bio than eng, but it's very digestible despite being dense.

Truly one of my favorite reads.

[1] https://g.co/kgs/ACnrCS

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