Authors:John Davenport, Kenneth Black, Gavin Burnell, Tom
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: ecological, issues, society, british, aquaculture
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2003-05-06
List price: $52.00
ISBN-10: 1405112417
ISBN-13: 9781405112413

Aquaculture: the ecological issues is written by an international team of researchers. Their aim has been to give an accessible account of the scale and diversity of aquaculture and the impact that it has on habitats and ecosystems throughout the world. It deals with the culture of carp and oysters, catfish and crayfish, salmon and tiger prawns. Written by an international team of researchers. Provides an accessible account of the scale and diversity of aquaculture and the impact that it has on habitats and ecosystems throughout the world Controversial topics such as habitat loss, the introduc

Author:
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: ecological, methods, concepts, processing, management, data, design
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2000-04-14
List price: $129.95
ISBN-10: 0632052317
ISBN-13: 9780632052318

Addresses complex issues in ecological data, providing a much-needed resource for those involved in ecological research, including students. Chapters focus on the core issues such as design, data management, and data quality assurance. Softcover. DLC: Ecology--Data processing.

Author: Hormoz BassiriRad
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecological, perspective, studies, plants, acquisition, nutrient
Number of Pages: 347
Published: 2009-06-16
List price: $189.00
ISBN-10: 3540241868
ISBN-13: 9783540241867

Adaptation and evolution of terrestrial plants depend, to a large extent, on their ability to acquire nutrients. This is a modern and integrative treatment of the mechanisms controlling plant nutrient uptake and how plants respond to changes in the environment. The following key topics are covered: soil nutrient bioavailability; root responses to variations in nutrient supply; nitrogen fixation; regulation of nutrient uptake by internal plant demand; root characteristics; kinetics of nutrient uptake; root architecture; life span; mycorrhizae; responses to climate change. This integrated view h

Authors:Andre F. Clewell, James Aronson,
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: ecological, restoration, science, series, profession, practice, structure, principles, values, emerging
Number of Pages: 230
Published: 2008-01-15
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 1597261696
ISBN-13: 9781597261692

The field of ecological restoration is a rapidly growing discipline that encompasses a wide range of activities and brings together practitioners and theoreticians from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives, ranging from volunteer backyard restorationists to highly trained academic scientists and professional consultants. �Ecological Restoration offers for the first time a unified vision of ecological restoration as a field of study, one that clearly states the discipline�s precepts and emphasizes issues of importance to those involved at all levels. In a lively, personal fashion, the auth

Authors:Juan Martinez Alier, Robert Costanza, Olman Segura, J
Publisher: Island Press
Keywords: ecological, economics, society, international, applications, earth, practical, getting
Number of Pages: 494
Published: 1996-08-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1559635037
ISBN-13: 9781559635035

Achieving global sustainability will require the development and integration of three elements: a shared vision of what a sustainable society is; new methods of analysis and modelling to understand and describe that vision; and new institutions and instruments that can make the vision a reality. "Getting Down to Earth" examines these three elements and the importance of their integration for the creation of a sustainable world.Drawing on materials from a workshop following the third international conference of the International Society for Ecological Economics, "Getting Down to Earth" brings t

Author:
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Keywords: ecological, economics, series, issues, current, modelling
Number of Pages: 213
Published: 2005-02-07
List price: $110.00
ISBN-10: 1843762226
ISBN-13: 9781843762225

This book focuses on modelling in ecological economics and offers a comprehensive overview of current and emerging methods of applying mathematical, computational and conceptual methods to environmental issues. Following a detailed introduction, the authors investigate various modelling techniques including: � evolutionary modelling � input-output modelling � neo-Austrian modelling � entropy in ecological economics � thermodynamic models � multi-criteria evaluation � agent-based modelling � the environmental Kuznets curve. In each of the specially commissioned

Authors:D. M. Newbery, H. H. T. Prins, N. D. Brow,
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: society, british, ecological, symposia, symposium, tropical, communities, 37th, dynamics
Number of Pages: 644
Published: 1998-08-01
List price: $140.00
ISBN-10: 0521839998
ISBN-13: 9780521839990

Tropical communities are recognised as among the most species-rich and dynamic in the world. Yet far from existing as dynamic equilibria, large unpredictable disruptive events are seen as dominating the longer-term dynamics set against the background of global change. This volume challenges the dynamic equilibrium idea yet further, arguing for thinking on a timescale of decades to centuries, finding new ways to handle unpredictability and uniqueness, and evaluating species diversity and community change at different scales. The difficult search for robust generalizations and rules in tropical