Ecosystem Classification for Environmental Management
When Lovelock published his 'Gaia', it was for many people quite a relief. We would not be able to destroy life on earth. Lovelock illustrated this argument with a wealth of mechanistic feedback processes, as we know them to occur in ecosystems. These feedback processes would, somehow, lea...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1994, 1994
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1994 |
| Series: | Ecology & Environment
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1 Theory
- 1. Environmental Policy and Ecosystem Classification
- 2. Basic Principles of Classification
- 3. Systems Ecological Concepts for Environmental Planning
- 4. The Natural Hierarchy of Ecological Systems
- 2 Approaches to Classification
- 5. Spatially Nested Ecosystems, Guidelines for Classification from a Hierarchical Perspective
- 6. Ecosystem Classification by Budgets of Material: the Example of Forest Ecosystems Classified as Proton Budget Types
- 7. The Use of Site Factors as Classification Characteristics for Ecotopes
- 8. The Application of Quantitative Methods of Classification to Strategic Ecological Survey in Britain
- 3 Applications
- 9. A Flexible Multiple Stress Model: who needs a priori Classification?
- 10. Ecosystem Classification and Hydro-ecological Modelling for National Water Management
- 11. Up-to-date Information on Nature Quality for Environmental Management in Flanders
- 12. Monitoring ‘Small Biotopes’
- 13. The Use of Floristic Data to establish the Occurrence and Quality of Ecosystems
- Plates