Detecting Ecological Impacts
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Detecting Ecological Impacts
Author | : Russell J. Schmitt,Craig W. Osenberg |
Publsiher | : Academic Press |
Total Pages | : 428 |
Release | : 1996-01-17 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0126272557 |
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Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats focuses on crucial aspects of detecting local and regional impacts that result from human activities. Detection and characterization of ecological impacts require scientific approaches that can reliably separate the effects of a specific anthropogenic activity from those of other processes. This fundamental goal is both technically and operationally challenging. Detecting Ecological Impacts is devoted to the conceptual and technical underpinnings that allow for reliable estimates of ecological effects caused by human activities. An international team of scientists focuses on the development and application of scientific tools appropriate for estimating the magnitude and spatial extent of ecological impacts. The contributors also evaluate our current ability to forecast impacts. Some of the scientific, legal, and administrative constraints that impede these critical tasks also are highlighted. Coastal marine habitats are emphasized, but the lessons and insights have general application to all ecological systems.
Monitoring Ecological Impacts
Author | : Barbara J. Downes,Leon A. Barmuta,Peter G. Fairweather,Daniel P. Faith,Michael J. Keough,P. S. Lake,Bruce D. Mapstone,Gerry P. Quinn |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 0521065291 |
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Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect, and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. The procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic, and the statistical models needed to analyse complex data are given. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols which can be applied in any region of the world, a wide range of human impacts, and any ecosystem. In addition, real examples are used to show how the theory can be put into practice.
Development of an Environmental Impact Assessment and Decision Support System for Seawater Desalination Plants
Author | : Sabine Latteman |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2010-05-11 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780203093245 |
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Seawater desalination is a coastal-based industry. The growing number of desalination plants worldwide and the increasing size of single facilities emphasises the need for greener desalination technologies and more sustainable desalination projects. Two complementing approaches are the development and implementation of best available technology (BA
Monitoring Ecological Impacts
Author | : Barbara J. Downes |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Stream ecology |
ISBN | : 0511049560 |
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Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. The procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols, which are applicable to real situations.
Defining and Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact from Power Plant Impingement and Entrainment of Aquatic Organisms
Author | : Douglas Dixon,John A. Veil,Joe Wisniewski |
Publsiher | : CRC Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2005-08-12 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780203971192 |
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The U.S. Clean Water Act calls for the minimization of "adverse environmental impact" at cooling water intake structures. To facilitate an exchange of information among all stakeholders in the issue, the Electric Power Research Institute organised a national symposium in 2001 to discuss the meaning of adverse environmental impact and methods for its assessment. Technical experts in federal and state resource agencies, academia, industry and non-governmental organizations attended the symposium. This is a collection of peer-reviewed papers, intended both to inform and to encourage the development of rules regarding the minimization of adverse environmental impact at cooling water intake structures.
Methods for Performing Monitoring Impact and Ecological Studies on Rocky Shores
Author | : Steven Nelson Murray |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Intertidal ecology |
ISBN | : UCSD:31822033173634 |
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Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation
Author | : Ned Horning,Julie A. Robinson,Eleanor J. Sterling,Woody Turner,Sacha Spector |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2010-07-01 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780191551468 |
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The work of conservation biology has grown from local studies of single species into a discipline concerned with mapping and managing biodiversity on a global scale. Remote sensing, using satellite and aerial imaging to measure and map the environment, increasingly provides a vital tool for effective collection of the information needed to research and set policy for conservation priorities. The perceived complexities of remotely sensed data and analyses have tended to discourage scientists and managers from using this valuable resource. This text focuses on making remote sensing tools accessible to a larger audience of non-specialists, highlighting strengths and limitations while emphasizing the ways that remotely sensed data can be captured and used, especially for evaluating human impacts on ecological systems.
Foundations of Restoration Ecology
Author | : Donald A. Falk,Margaret A. Palmer,Joy B. Zedler |
Publsiher | : Island Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2013-03-19 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781597266048 |
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As the practical application of ecological restoration continues to grow, there is an increasing need to connect restoration practice to areas of underlying ecological theory. Foundations of Restoration Ecology is an important milestone in the field, bringing together leading ecologists to bridge the gap between theory and practice by translating elements of ecological theory and current research themes into a scientific framework for the field of restoration ecology. Each chapter addresses a particular area of ecological theory, covering traditional levels of biological hierarchy (such as population genetics, demography, community ecology) as well as topics of central relevance to the challenges of restoration ecology (such as species interactions, fine-scale heterogeneity, successional trajectories, invasive species ecology, ecophysiology). Several chapters focus on research tools (research design, statistical analysis, modeling), or place restoration ecology research in a larger context (large-scale ecological phenomena, macroecology, climate change and paleoecology, evolutionary ecology). The book makes a compelling case that a stronger connection between ecological theory and the science of restoration ecology will be mutually beneficial for both fields: restoration ecology benefits from a stronger grounding in basic theory, while ecological theory benefits from the unique opportunities for experimentation in a restoration context. Foundations of Restoration Ecology advances the science behind the practice of restoring ecosystems while exploring ways in which restoration ecology can inform basic ecological questions. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the theoretical foundations of restoration ecology, and is a must-have volume for anyone involved in restoration research, teaching, or practice.