Schlagwort(e):
Ecosystem management - Research.
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Electronic books.
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
What can ecological science contribute to the sustainable management and conservation of the natural systems that underpin human well-being? Written for researchers and graduate students in ecology and environmental management, this book shows how ecosystem ecology can inform the ecosystem services approach as well as mainstream ecological and social science.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
Seiten:
1 online resource (174 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780511743153
Serie:
Ecological Reviews Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=534735
DDC:
577
Sprache:
Englisch
Anmerkung:
Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- CHAPTER ONE: The evolution of ecosystem ecology -- Introduction -- Origins of the concept of the ecosystem -- Holistic frameworks for exploring complex, interacting systems: the contributions of Lindeman and Elton -- The International Biological Programme -- Systems-analysis approaches -- Resilience thinking -- A move towards more inclusive approaches to ecosystem ecology -- What can be learned from the history of ecosystem ecology? -- Acknowledgements -- References -- CHAPTER TWO: Linking population, community and ecosystem ecology within mainstream ecology -- Introduction -- An overview of population-, community- and ecosystem-level modelling approaches -- Population-level models -- Community-level models -- Ecosystem-level models -- Model evaluation -- How do ecologists evaluate models? -- Statistical evaluation of models -- Suggested approaches for scaling between population and ecosystem ecology -- Linearised, equilibrium approaches -- Aggregating state variables -- Aggregating parameters -- Isolated models for components of a complex community -- Final thoughts and remaining challenges -- Acknowledgements -- References -- CHAPTER THREE: Thermodynamic approaches to ecosystem behaviour: fundamental principles with case studies from forest succession and management -- Introduction -- Historical development and motivation -- Definitions and terms -- Systems science -- Physical principles -- Classical thermodynamics -- Statistical thermodynamics (statistical mechanics) -- Information theory -- Ecosystem applications -- The Strategy of Ecosystem Development (SED) -- Ascendancy -- Ecological Law of Thermodynamics and Life as the Second Law -- Critiques and a simple reformulation -- Critique of the Strategy of Ecosystem Development.
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Critique of ascendancy -- Critique of the Ecological Law of Thermodynamics -- Reconciling system and individual perspectives: ecological statistical mechanics -- Application: global forest management -- References -- CHAPTER FOUR: Ecosystem health -- Introduction: origins and development of the ecosystem health concept -- Approaches for assessing ecosystem health -- Indicators and indices derived from direct measurement -- Ecological indicators -- Multimetric indices -- Problems with the use of biological monitoring and indicators -- Using models to assess ecosystem health -- Odum's conjectures and mass-balance approaches -- Adaptive cycles and resilience -- System-level metrics from mass-balance models -- Interdisciplinary indicators of ecosystem health -- The HEHI approach -- MEHTA (Monitoring of Ecosystem Health by Trends Analysis): an alternative interdisciplinary indicator -- Application of the MEHTA approach: Ythan catchment case study -- Conclusions and recommendations -- Is the ecosystem health concept valuable? -- Operational approaches to assessing ecosystem health -- Gaps in knowledge -- Acknowledgements -- References -- CHAPTER FIVE: Interdisciplinarity in ecosystems research: developing social robustness in environmental science -- Introduction -- Being interdisciplinary - rationales and definitions -- Multi-, inter- and trans-disciplinarity -- Science and society: developing social robustness in ecosystems research -- Contextualising ecology -- Ecology and the public -- Conclusions -- References -- CHAPTER SIX: The links between biodiversity, ecosystem services and human well-being -- Introduction: managing ecosystems for people -- Ecosystems services and the Ecosystem Approach -- Ecosystem service typologies -- Service cascades -- Evolving service typologies -- Biodiversity, ecosystem function and service output.
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Species complementarity -- The importance of functional groups and functional traits -- Alien vs. native species -- The insurance value of biodiversity -- Biodiversity and social-ecological ecosystems -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- References -- CHAPTER SEVEN: Ecosystem ecology and environmental management -- Introduction -- Environmental management, biodiversity and ecosystem sustainability -- Recognising Darwin's Tangled Bank -- Sustainability and the balance of nature -- An ecosystem-based approach -- Concluding remarks -- References -- Index.
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