Ecosystem Management: Selected Readings / Edition 1

Ecosystem Management: Selected Readings / Edition 1

ISBN-10:
0387946675
ISBN-13:
9780387946672
Pub. Date:
05/29/1996
Publisher:
Springer New York
ISBN-10:
0387946675
ISBN-13:
9780387946672
Pub. Date:
05/29/1996
Publisher:
Springer New York
Ecosystem Management: Selected Readings / Edition 1

Ecosystem Management: Selected Readings / Edition 1

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Overview

Ecosystem management has emerged in the past several years as the new paradigm for managing public and private land. It combines the principles of ecosystem-level ecology with the policy requirements of resource and public land management. This collection of selected readings will serve as an introduction to the concepts of biological diversity, ecological process, biotic integrity, and ecological sustainability that underlie ecosystem management.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780387946672
Publisher: Springer New York
Publication date: 05/29/1996
Edition description: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996
Pages: 462
Product dimensions: 7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.04(d)

Table of Contents

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.- 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 Vegetation Mosaic Hypothesis: A Hypothesis to Explain the Decline and Extinction of Australian Mammals.- 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.- 31. Scale and Biodiversity Policy: A Hierarchical Approach.- 32. Population, Sustainability, and Earth’s Carrying Capacity.- 33. Biodiversity and Ecosystem Function.

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