Detecting Ecological Impacts

Author : Russell J. Schmitt,Craig W. Osenberg
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0126272557

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Detecting Ecological Impacts by Russell J. Schmitt,Craig W. Osenberg Pdf

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.

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
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-12
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0521065291

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Monitoring Ecological Impacts by Barbara J. Downes,Leon A. Barmuta,Peter G. Fairweather,Daniel P. Faith,Michael J. Keough,P. S. Lake,Bruce D. Mapstone,Gerry P. Quinn Pdf

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.

Author : Sabine Latteman
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780203093245

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Development of an Environmental Impact Assessment and Decision Support System for Seawater Desalination Plants by Sabine Latteman Pdf

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

Author : Barbara J. Downes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Stream ecology
ISBN : 0511049560

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Monitoring Ecological Impacts by Barbara J. Downes Pdf

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.

Author : Douglas Dixon,John A. Veil,Joe Wisniewski
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203971192

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Defining and Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact from Power Plant Impingement and Entrainment of Aquatic Organisms by Douglas Dixon,John A. Veil,Joe Wisniewski Pdf

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.

Author : Steven Nelson Murray
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Intertidal ecology
ISBN : UCSD:31822033173634

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Methods for Performing Monitoring, Impact, and Ecological Studies on Rocky Shores by Steven Nelson Murray Pdf

Author : Ned Horning,Julie A. Robinson,Eleanor J. Sterling,Woody Turner,Sacha Spector
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780191551468

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Remote Sensing for Ecology and Conservation by Ned Horning,Julie A. Robinson,Eleanor J. Sterling,Woody Turner,Sacha Spector Pdf

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.

Author : Donald A. Falk,Margaret A. Palmer,Joy B. Zedler
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597266048

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Foundations of Restoration Ecology by Donald A. Falk,Margaret A. Palmer,Joy B. Zedler Pdf

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.

Author : ShiLi Miao,Susan Carstenn,Martha Nungesser
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780387779423

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Real World Ecology by ShiLi Miao,Susan Carstenn,Martha Nungesser Pdf

Ecological and environmental research has increased in scope and complexity in the last few decades, from simple systems with a few managed variables to complex ecosystems with many uncontrolled variables. These issues encompass problems that are inadequately addressed using the types of carefully controlled experiments that dominate past ecological research. Contemporary challenges facing ecologists include whole ecosystem responses to planned restoration activities and ecosystem modifications, as well as unplanned catastrophic events such as biological invasions, natural disasters, and global climate changes. Major perturbations implicated in large-scale ecological alterations share important characteristics that challenge traditional experimental design and statistical analyses. These include: * Lack of randomization, replication and independence * Multiple scales of spatial and temporal variability * Complex interactions and system feedbacks. In real world ecology, standard replicated designs are often neither practical nor feasible for large-scale experiments, yet ecologists continue to cling to these same standard designs and related statistical analyses. Case studies that fully elucidate the currently available techniques for conducting large-scale unreplicated analyses are lacking. Real World Ecology: Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods is the first to focus on case studies to demonstrate how ecologists can investigate complex contemporary problems using new and powerful experimental approaches. This collection of case studies showcases innovative experimental designs, analytical options, and interpretation possibilities currently available to theoretical and applied ecologists, practitioners, and biostatisticians. By illustrating how scientists have answered pressing questions about ecosystem restoration, impact and recovery, global warming, conservation, modeling, and biological invasions, this book will broaden the acceptance and application of modern approaches by scientists and encourage further methodological development.

Author : Peter H. Liotta,David A. Mouat,W.G. Kepner,Judith Lancaster
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-07-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402085512

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Environmental Change and Human Security: Recognizing and Acting on Hazard Impacts by Peter H. Liotta,David A. Mouat,W.G. Kepner,Judith Lancaster Pdf

Environmental and Human Security: Then and Now 1 2 ALAN D. HECHT AND P. H. LIOTTA * 1 U. S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development 2 Pell Center for International Relations and Public Policy Salve Regina University 1. Nontraditional Threats to Security The events of September 11, 2001 have sharpened the debate over the meaning of being secure. Before 9/11 there were warnings in all parts of the world that social and environmental changes were occurring. While there was prosperity in North America and Western Europe, there was also increasing recognition that local and global effects of ecosystem degradation posed a serious threat. Trekking from Cairo to Cape Town thirty years after living in Africa as a young teacher, for example, travel writer Paul Theroux concluded that development in sub-Saharan Africa had failed to improve the quality of life for 300 million people: “Africa is materially more decrepit than it was when I first knew it—hungrier, poorer, less educated, more pessimistic, more corrupt, and you can’t tell the politicians from the witch-doctors” (2002). While scholars and historians will debate the causes of 9/11 for some time, one message is clear: An often dizzying array of nontraditional threats and complex vulnerabilities define security today. We must understand them, and deal with them, or suffer the consequences. Environmental security has always required att- tion to nontraditional threats linked closely with social and economic well-being.

Author : Ricardo D Lopez,Robert C Frohn
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-09
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781498754392

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Remote Sensing for Landscape Ecology: New Metric Indicators by Ricardo D Lopez,Robert C Frohn Pdf

This book provides the practical basis for the use of remote sensing to accomplish landscape ecological projects, through the merging of theory and practice, with examples. This is a specialized application and both these topics have evolved rapidly in the past decade. This evolution is not in the previous edition, and indeed this update provides much new information and valuable ideas for the professional and assist in directing the training of new personnel. The new edition will feature a combination of landscape ecology metrics, quantitative field measurements, and geospatial analyses.

Author : Anastasios Eleftheriou,Alasdair McIntyre
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9780470995112

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Methods for the Study of Marine Benthos by Anastasios Eleftheriou,Alasdair McIntyre Pdf

Ecosystems of the benthic environment are a sensitive index toecological change, and as such demand long-term and effectivemonitoring. Methods for the Study of Marine Benthos providescomprehensive information on the tools and techniques available tothose working in areas where the declining health of the sea,depletion of marine resources and the biodiversity of marine lifeare major concerns. In response to the need for increasingly detailed information onbottom-living communities, this fully revised new editionoffers: Contributions from a broad range of internationally recognisedexperts New information for those compiling environmental impactstatements, pollution assessments and working with eco-systemmanagement Two separate chapters on Imaging Techniques and DivingSystems A vital tool for all marine and environmental scientists,ecologists, fisheries workers and oceanographers, libraries in alluniversities and research establishments where these subjects arestudied and taught will find this book a valuable addition to theirshelves.

Author : Carolyn T. Hunsaker,Michael F. Goodchild,Mark A. Friedl,Ted J. Case
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461302094

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Spatial Uncertainty in Ecology by Carolyn T. Hunsaker,Michael F. Goodchild,Mark A. Friedl,Ted J. Case Pdf

This is one of the first books to take an ecological perspective on uncertainty in spatial data. It applies principles and techniques from geography and other disciplines to ecological research, and thus delivers the tools of cartography, cognition, spatial statistics, remote sensing and computer sciences by way of spatial data. After describing the uses of such data in ecological research, the authors discuss how to account for the effects of uncertainty in various methods of analysis.

Author : Steven N. Murray,Richard Ambrose,Megan N. Dethier
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780520247284

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Monitoring Rocky Shores by Steven N. Murray,Richard Ambrose,Megan N. Dethier Pdf

“Intertidal ecologists have been struggling with how to adequately monitor the tremendous diversity and heterogeneity of rocky shores for decades. Finally three of the most experienced and established people in the field have done it. Monitoring Rocky Shores will serve as THE central reference guide for scientists intent on understanding the complexities of intertidal ecology.”—John Pearse, coauthor of Animals Without Backbones “The incredibly high taxic, morphological, ecological, as well as biotic diversity of rocky shores makes them ideal sites for ecological studies; however this same diversity also presents innumerable challenges. Monitoring Rocky Shores is long overdue in helping investigators tackle these innumerable challenges. This book provides a broad and important introduction to the habitat, the animals, the methods, and the analyses required constructing informed hypotheses and scenarios for life on rocky shores.”—David R. Lindberg, Museum of Paleontology, co-editor of Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca

Author : Erik A. Beever,Jerrold L. Belant
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781420087222

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Ecological Consequences of Climate Change by Erik A. Beever,Jerrold L. Belant Pdf

Contemporary climate change is a crucial management challenge for wildlife scientists, conservation biologists, and ecologists of the 21st century. Climate fingerprints are being detected and documented in the responses of hundreds of wildlife species and numerous ecosystems around the world. To mitigate and accommodate the influences of climate ch