Authors:John Pernetta, etc.,
Publisher: World Conservation Union
Keywords: ecosystems, climate, species, change, amp, impacts, marine, impact
Number of Pages: 115
Published: 1996-01
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 2831701724
ISBN-13: 9782831701721

Author: P.A. Tyler
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: ecosystems, volume, ocean, world
Number of Pages: 582
Published: 2003-04-10
List price: $227.00
ISBN-10: 044482619X
ISBN-13: 9780444826190

This volume examines the deep sea ecosystem from a variety of perspectives. The initial chapters examine the deep-sea floor, the deep pelagic environment and the more specialised chemosynthetic environments of hydrothermal vents and cold seeps. These environments are examined from the perspective of the relationship of deep-sea animals to their physico-chemical environment.Later chapters examine the biogeography of the main deep oceans (Atlantic, Pacific and Indian) with particular attention to the downward flux of surface-derived organic matter and how this drives the processes within the dee

Author: M. H. Wong
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: ecosystems, volume, developments, management, function, asia, wetlands
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-11-23
List price: $223.00
ISBN-10: 0444516913
ISBN-13: 9780444516916

This book on wetlands ecosystems in Asia deals with function and management. It is the first volume in the Developments in Ecosystems series.

Author: L.R. Walker
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Keywords: ecosystems, world, disturbed, ground
Number of Pages: 900
Published: 1999-11-01
List price: $303.00
ISBN-10: 0444824200
ISBN-13: 9780444824202

Hardbound. As the human population inexorably grows, its cumulative impact on the Earth’s resources is hard to ignore. The ability of the Earth to support more humans is dependent on the ability of humans to manage natural resources wisely. Because disturbance alters resource levels, effective management requires understanding of the ecology of disturbance. This book is the first to take a global approach to the description of both natural and anthropogenic disturbance regimes that physically impact the ground. Natural disturbances such as erosion, volcanoes, wind, herbivory, floodin

Author: Committee on Inland Aquatic EcosystemsNational Re
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: programs, limnology, educational, revitalizing, ecosystems, freshwater
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1996-09-27
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0309054435
ISBN-13: 9780309054430

"Freshwater Ecosystems" tells the story of limnology and its most prominent practitioners and examines the current strengths and weaknesses of the field. The committee discusses how limnology can contribute to appropriate policies for the broad spectrum of problems that threaten the nation’s freshwater supply Pub: 9/96.

Authors:John E. Petersen, Victor S. Kennedy, William C. Denn
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecosystems, managing, coastal, understanding, scale, experimental, enclosed, tools
Number of Pages: 222
Published: 2009-02-27
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0387767681
ISBN-13: 9780387767680

Enclosed ecosystem experiments have gained in popularity as research tools in ecological science, particularly in the study of coastal aquatic environments. These systems provide scientists with a degree of experimental control that is not achievable through field experiments. Yet to date, techniques for systematically extrapolating results from small-scale experimental ecosystems to larger, deeper, more open, more biologically diverse, and more heterogeneous ecosystems in nature have not been well developed. Likewise, researchers have lacked methods for comparing and extrapolating information

Authors:Reinhard F. Hüttl, K. Bellmann,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: ecosystems, roof, nutrients, experiment, forest, atmospheric, chemistry, effects, changes
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 1999-09-30
List price: $160.00
ISBN-10: 0792357132
ISBN-13: 9780792357131

This volume summarises the result of an interdisciplinary research programme entitled `Rehabilitation of the Atmosphere of the New States of Germany -- Effects on Terrestrial Ecosystems’. Before the unification of Germany, emission loads of SO2 and dust particles were up to 18-fold higher in East than in West Germany. However, emission rates have decreased significantly since reunification in 1990, due to the breakdown of a large number of industrial and particularly lignite- fired powerplants and the implementation of clean air technologies. In order to study the effects of the