Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Jørgensen, Sven; Costanza, Robert; Xu, Liu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This second edition of a bestseller provides a comprehensive account of ecological indicators for evaluating the health of a wide variety of ecosystems. It presents a proven framework for selecting, evaluating, and validating ecological indicators and applies this framework to major ecosystem types, including coastal areas, forests, wetlands, fisheries, and agricultural land. With numerous examples and case studies, it provides a complete overview of all relevant ecological indicators, including thermodynamics, resilience estimates, and exergy and energy indicators and applies them to a number of important ecosystems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 498
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781439858516
• Artikelnr.: 40067691

Autorenporträt

Dr. Sven Erik Jørgensen is a professor of environmental chemistry at Copenhagen University. He received a doctorate of engineering in environmental technology and a doctorate of science in ecological modeling. He is an honorable doctor of science at Coimbra University, Portugal, and at Dar es Salaam University, Tanzania. He was editor in chief of Ecological Modelling from the journal's inception in 1975 to 2009. He has also been the editor in chief of Encyclopedia of Ecology. In 2004 Dr. Jorgensen was awarded the Stockholm Water Prize and the Prigogine Prize. He was awarded the Einstein Professorship by the Chinese Academy of Science in 2005. In 2007 he received the Pascal medal and was elected a member of the European Academy of Science. He has written close to 350 papers, most of which have been published in international peer reviewed journals. He has edited or written 64 books. Dr. Jorgensen has given lectures and courses in ecological modeling, ecosystem theory, and ecological engineering worldwide. Dr. Fu-Liu Xu is a professor at the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University, China. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Pharmaceutics and Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Denmark. His research interests include ecosystem health and ecological indicators, system ecology and ecological modeling, ecotoxicology and risk assessment of POPs. Dr. Robert Costanza is the Gordon and Lulie Gund Professor of Ecological Economics and founding director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont. His transdisciplinary research integrates the study of humans and the rest of nature to address research, policy and management issues on multiple scales, from small watersheds to the global system. He is co-founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and was fou

Inhaltsangabe

Ecological Indicators. Indicators for the Assessment of Ecosystem Health.
Eco-Exergy as Ecological Indicator. Emergy Indices of Biodiversity and
Ecosystem Dynamics. Eco-Exergy to Emergy Flow Ratio for the Assessment of
Ecosystem Health. Natural Capital Security / Vulnerability Related to
Disturbance in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological Landscapes. Species Richness
in Space and Time as an Indicator of Human Activity and Ecological Change.
Landscape Development Intensity and Pollutant Emergy/Empower Density
Indices as Indicators of Ecosystem Health. Ecosystem Services and
Ecological Indicators. Assessment of Ecosystem Health. Application of
Ecological Indicators for the Assessment of Wetland Ecosystem Health.
Application of Ecological Indicators for the Assessment of Ecosystem Health
in Estuaries and Coastal Zones; Application of Ecological and Thermodynamic
Indicators for the Assessment of Ecosystem Health of Lakes; Application of
Ecological Indicators in Forest Management in Africa; Using Ecological
Indicators to Assess the Health of Marine Ecosystems: The North Atlantic.
Indicators for the Management of Coastal Lagoons: Sacca di Goro Case Study.
Ecosystem Indicators for the Integrated Management of Landscape Health and
Integrity. Integrated Indicators for Evaluating Ecosystem Health: An
Application to Agricultural Systems. Ecological Indicators to Assess the
Health of River Ecosystems.