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Handbook of ecological indicators for assessment of ecosystem health
- Title
- Handbook of ecological indicators for assessment of ecosystem health / edited by Sven E. Jørgensen, Robert Costanza, Fu-Liu Xu.
- Publication
- Boca Raton : Taylor & Francis, [2005], ©2005.
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- Description
- 439 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health is the first comprehensive account and guidebook to ecological indicators for evaluating the health of a wide variety of ecosystems. It explains what is needed to apply the methods and indicators, including theoretical background and modeling techniques, to evaluate the state of a given ecosystem. It will be useful for a wide range of environmental managers, natural resource managers, land use planners, and policy makers in government and non-governmental organizations worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Ch. 1. Introduction / S. E. Jorgensen -- Ch. 2. Application of indicators for the assessment of ecosystem health / S. E. Jorgensen, F.-L. Xu, F. Salas and J. C. Marques -- Ch. 3. Application of ecological indicators to assess environmental quality in coastal zones and transitional waters : two case studies / J. C. Marques, F. Salas, J. M. Patricio and M. A. Pardal -- Ch. 4. Development and application of ecosystem health indicators in the North American Great Lakes Basin / H. Shear, P. Bertram, C. Forst and P. Horvatin -- Ch. 5. Application of ecological and thermodynamic indicators for the assessment of lake ecosystem health / F.-L. Xu -- Ch. 6. Ecosystem health assessment and bioeconomic analysis in coastal lagoons / J. M. Zaldivar, M. Austoni, M. Plus, G. A. De Leo, G. Giordani and P. Viaroli -- Ch. 7. Application of ecological and thermodynamic indicators for the assessment of the ecosystem health of coastal areas / S. E. Jorgensen -- Ch. 8. Application of ecological indicators for assessing health of marine ecosystems / V. Christensen and P. Cury -- Ch. 9. Using ecological indicators in a whole-ecosystem wetland experiment / W. J. Mitsch, N. Wang, L. Zhang, R. Deal, X. Wu and A. Zuwerink -- Ch. 10. The joint use of exergy and emergy as indicators of ecosystems performances / S. Bastianoni, N. Marchettini, F. M. Pulselli and M. Rosini -- Ch. 11. Application of thermodynamic indices to agro-ecosystems / Y. M. Svirezhev -- Ch. 12. Ecosystem indicators for the integrated management of landscape health and integrity / F. Muller -- Ch. 13. Multi-scale resilience estimates for health assessment of real habitats in a landscape / G. Zurlini, N. Zaccarelli and I. Petrosillo -- Ch. 14. Emergy, transformity, and ecosystem health / M. T. Brown and S. Ulgiati -- Ch. 15. Mass acccounting and mass-based indicators / S. Bargigli, M. Raugei and S. Ulgiati -- Ch. 16. The health of ecosystems : the Ythan Estuary case study / D. Raffaelli, P. White, A. Renwick, J. Smart and C. Perrings -- Ch. 17. Assessing marine ecosystem health - concepts and indicators, with reference to the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine, Northwest Atlantic / P. G. Wells.
- ISBN
- 1566706653
- LCCN
- 2004015982
- OCLC
- ocm56011359
- SCSB-5165800
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries