Ecosystem Management Selected Readings
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1996, 1996
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1996 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 31. Scale and Biodiversity Policy: A Hierarchical Approach
- 32. Population, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity
- 33. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function
- 12. Management Practices in Tallgrass Prairie: Large- and Small-Scale Experimental Effects on Species Composition
- 13. Fire History and Vegetation Dynamics of a Chamaecyparis Thyoides Wetland on Cape Cod, Massachusetts
- 14. Organisms as Ecosystem Engineers
- 15. Modeling Complex Ecological Economic Systems: Toward an Evolutionary, Dynamic Understanding of People and Nature
- 16. Disturbance, Diversity, and Invasion: Implications for Conservation
- 3: Emphasize Biotic Integrity
- 17. Biological Invasions and Ecosystem Processes: Towards an Integration of Population Biology and Ecosystem Studies
- 18. No Park Is an Island: Increase in Interference from Outside as Park Size Decreases
- 19. Community-Wide Consequences of Trout Introduction in New Zealand Streams
- 20. Variation Among Desert Topminnows in Their Susceptibility to Attack by Exotic Parasites
- 21. A Test of the VegetationMosaic Hypothesis: A Hypothesis to Explain the Decline and Extinction of Australian Mammals
- 1: Understand Diversity
- 1. Biodiversity and Stability in Grasslands
- 2. Biological Diversity: Where Is It?
- 3. Neotropical Mammals and the Myth of Amazonian Biodiversity
- 4. Conservation of Stream Fishes: Patterns of Diversity, Rarity, and Risk
- 5. Scale Perspectives on Avian Diversity in Western Riparian Ecosystems
- 6. Beyond “Hotspots”: How to Prioritize Investments to Conserve Biodiversity in the Indo-Pacific Region
- 7. Avian Community Dynamics are Discordant in Space and Time
- 8. Identifying Extinction Threats: Global Analyses of the Distribution of Biodiversity and the Expansion of the Human Enterprise
- 2: Restore Ecological Processes
- 9. The Preservation of Process: The Missing Element of Conservation Programs
- 10. Disturbance and Population Structure on the Shifting Mosaic Landscape
- 11. Fire Frequency and Community Heterogeneity in Tallgrass Prairie Vegetation
- 22. Fish Assemblage Recovery Along a Riverine Disturbance Gradient
- 23. Plant Invasions and the Role of Riparian Habitats: A Comparison of Four Species Alien to Central Europe
- 24. Biological Integrity Versus Biological Diversity as Policy Directives: Protecting Biotic Resources
- 4: Promote Ecological Sustainability
- 25. Great Ideas in Ecology for the 1990s
- 26. Can Extractive Reserves Save the Rain Forest? An Ecological and Socioeconomic Comparison of Nontimber Forest Product Extraction Systems in Petén, Guatemala, and West Kalimantan, Indonesia
- 27. Sustainable Use of the Tropical Rain Forest: Evidence from the Avifauna in a Shifting-Cultivation Habitat Mosaic in the Colombian Amazon
- 28. The Effects of Management Systems on Ground-Foraging Ant Diversity in Costa Rica
- 29. An Approach for Managing Vertebrate Diversity Across Multiple-Use Landscapes
- 30. Cross-Scale Morphology, Geometry, and Dynamics of Ecosystems