Research Catalog

Title

Evaluating and monitoring the health of large-scale ecosystems / edited by David J. Rapport, Connie L. Gaudet, Peter Calow.

Publication

Berlin ; New York : Springer-Verlag, [1995], ©1995.

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Additional Authors

• Rapport, David.
• Gaudet, Connie L., 1939-
• Calow, Peter.
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division.
• NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems" (1993 : Montebello, Québec)

Description

xi, 454 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Series Statement

NATO ASI series. Series I, Global environmental change ; vol. 28

Uniform Title

NATO ASI series. Series I, Global environmental change ; v. 28.

Subject

• Environmental monitoring > Congresses
• Ecological risk assessment > Congresses

Note

• "Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop "Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large-Scale Ecosystems", held at Montebello, Quebec, Canada, October 10-15, 1993"--T.p. verso.
• "Published in cooperation with NATO Scientific Affairs Division."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

• 1. Ecosystem Health: An Emerging Integrative Science / David J. Rapport -- 2. Ecosystem Health - A Critical Analysis of Concepts / Peter Calow -- 3. Qualitative and Quantitative Criteria Defining a "Healthy" Ecosystem / Francois Ramade -- 4. The Relationship Between Ecosystem Health and Delivery of Ecosystem Services / John Cairns, Jr. and James R. Pratt -- 5. Environmental Health and Ecotoxicology: An Indispensable Link / Jose Jeronimo Amaral-Mendes, Eric Pluygers and Juliania Farina -- 6. Ecological and Economic System Health and Social Decision Making / Robert Costanza -- 7. New Approaches to the Assessment of Marine Ecosystem Health / John S. Gray -- 8. Using Biological Criteria to Protect Ecological Health / James R. Karr -- 9. Biological Changes in the German Bight of the North Sea as Indicators of Ecosystem Health / Volkert Dethlefsen -- 10. Indices for Carcinogenicity in Aquatic Ecosystems: Significance and Development / Paule Vasseur.
• 11. Assessment of Ecosystem Health: Development of Tools and Approaches / Peter-Diedrich Hansen -- 12. Degradation and Rehabilitation of Rivers: A Note on the Ecosystem Approach / Wim Admiraal -- 13. An Influence Diagram Approach to the Diagnosis and Management of the Baltic Sea / Mikael Hilden -- 14. Evaluation of New Techniques for Monitoring and Assessing the Health of Large Marine Ecosystems / Robert Williams -- 15. Desertification: Implications and Limitations of the Ecosystem Health Metaphor / Walter G. Whitford -- 16. Paleolimnological Approaches to the Evaluation and Monitoring of Ecosystem Health: Providing a History for Environmental Damage and Recovery / John P. Smol -- 17. Recovery and Rehabilitation of Mediterranean Type Ecosystem: A Case Study from Turkish Maquis / Munir Ahmet Ozturk -- 18. Forest Recovery Following Pasture Abandonment in Amazonia: Canopy Seasonality, Fire Resistance and Ants / Daniel C. Nepstad et al.
• 19. Temporal and Spatial Variability as Neglected Ecosystem Properties: Lessons Learned from 12 North American Ecosystems / Timothy K. Kratz et al. -- 20. Assessment and Monitoring of Large Marine Ecosystems / Kenneth Sherman and Donna A. Busch -- 21. Remote Sensing and Ecosystem Health: An Evaluation of Time Series AVHRR NDVI Data / David A. Mouat -- Workshop Summary / Peter Calow and David J. Rapport.

ISBN

3540588051 (alk. paper)

LCCN

94043600

OCLC

• 31657507
• ocm31657507

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries