"Ecology is the study of systems that are complex, dynamic, and full of interacting entities and processes... We think that ecology and the ecosystems it studies may offer a useful analogy to inform the task of understanding and articulating the interactions between users, repositories, and services and the information environments in which they take place." I'm inclined to agree, and even if I weren't, the discussion of "why technical architectures need help" on page 3 would convince me. "Architectures are implicitly static and only address the structures that have been built into them. In particular, technical architectures formalise the technologies they include and the inclusion of a new technology may require the entire architecture to be updated." PDF, from this web page.
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