Ecosystem Approaches To Landscape Management In Central Europe

Author : J.D. Tenhunen,R. Lenz,Ralph Hantschel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 698 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 3540672672

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Ecosystem Approaches to Landscape Management in Central Europe by J.D. Tenhunen,R. Lenz,Ralph Hantschel Pdf

The challenges in ecosystem science encompass a broadening and strengthening of interdisciplinary ties, the transfer of knowledge of the ecosystem across scales, and the inclusion of anthropogenic impacts and human behavior into ecosystem, landscape, and regional models. The volume addresses these points within the context of studies in major ecosystem types viewed as the building blocks of central European landscapes. The research is evaluated to increase the understanding of the processes in order to unite ecosystem science with resource management. The comparison embraces coastal lowland forests, associated wetlands and lakes, agricultural land use, and montane and alpine forests. Techniques for upscaling focus on process modelling at stand and landscape scales and the use of remote sensing for landscape-level model parameterization and testing. The case studies demonstrate ways for ecosystem scientists, managers, and social scientists to cooperate.

Author : S. Hunter,J.D. Tenhunen,R. Lenz,R. Hantschel
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Science
ISBN : 3662045044

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Ecosystem Approaches to Landscape Management in Central Europe by S. Hunter,J.D. Tenhunen,R. Lenz,R. Hantschel Pdf

Stimulated by the concern for environmental problems that arose during the 1970s and 1980s, related both to global and national questions of sustain ability, the German government committed itself to advancing ecosystem research as a central component of planning for environment ally, economically, and socially sound policies and for resource manage ment during the 21 st century. Ecosystem research has been promoted at institutions spread throughout the country and that are favorably struc tured to conduct interdisciplinary studies. Research funding is derived from both the federal union and state governments. Results from the research programme at several of these institutions are summarized in this volume: 1. to provide a status report on process understanding within ecosystem types that are viewed as building blocks of complex, highly-modified Central European landscapes, 2. to document progress at institutions pursuing ecosystem science and promoting interdisciplinary approaches, 3. to support the next steps in generalizing the research results, e. g., to obtain a picture of ecosystem function in time and space or oflandscape function, and 4. to examine how the results may be applied to better manage natural resources and achieve sustainability.

Author : Taina Veltheim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aforestation
ISBN : MINN:31951D02057937N

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Forest Landscape Restoration in Central and Northern Europe by Taina Veltheim Pdf

Author : Christina von Haaren,Andrew A. Lovett,Christian Albert
Publisher : Springer
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-25
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789402416817

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Landscape Planning with Ecosystem Services by Christina von Haaren,Andrew A. Lovett,Christian Albert Pdf

Human well-being depends in many ways on maintaining the stock of natural resources which deliver the services from which human’s benefit. However, these resources and flows of services are increasingly threatened by unsustainable and competing land uses. Particular threats exist to those public goods whose values are not well-represented in markets or whose deterioration will only affect future generations. As market forces alone are not sufficient, effective means for local and regional planning are needed in order to safeguard scarce natural resources, coordinate land uses and create sustainable landscape structures. This book argues that a solution to such challenges in Europe can be found by merging the landscape planning tradition with ecosystem services concepts. Landscape planning has strengths in recognition of public benefits and implementation mechanisms, while the ecosystem services approach makes the connection between the status of natural assets and human well-being more explicit. It can also provide an economic perspective, focused on individual preferences and benefits, which helps validate the acceptability of environmental planning goals. Thus linking landscape planning and ecosystem services provides a two-way benefit, creating a usable science to meet the needs of local and regional decision making. The book is structured around the Driving forces-Pressures-States-Impacts-Responses framework, providing an introduction to relevant concepts, methodologies and techniques. It presents a new, ecosystem services-informed, approach to landscape planning that constitutes both a framework and toolbox for students and practitioners to address the environmental and landscape challenges of 21st century Europe.

Author : Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781136565397

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Forests in Landscapes by Stewart Maginnis,Jeffrey A Sayer Pdf

At last a really useful book telling us how all the rhetoric about ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management is being translated into practical solutions on the ground CLAUDE MARTIN, WWF INTERNATIONAL For too long, foresters have seen forests as logs waiting to be turned into something useful. This book demonstrates that forests in fact have multiple values, and managing them as ecosystems will bring more benefits to a greater cross-section of the public JEFFREY A. MCNEELY, CHIEF SCIENTIST, IUCN This book demonstrates that [ecosystem approaches and sustainable forest management] are neither alternative methods of forest management nor are they simply complicated ways of saying the same thing. They are both emerging concepts for more integrated and holistic ways of managing forests within larger landscapes in ways that optimize benefits to all stakeholders ACHIM STEINER AND IAN JOHNSON, FROM THE FOREWORD Recent innovations in Sustainable Forest Management and Ecosystem Approaches are resulting in forests increasingly being managed as part of the broader social-ecological systems in which they exist. Forests in Landscapes reviews changes that have occurred in forest management in recent decades. Case studies from Europe, Canada, the United States, Russia, Australia, the Congo and Central America provide a wealth of international examples of innovative practices. Cross-cutting chapters examine the political ecology and economics of forest management, and review the information needs and the use and misuse of criteria and indicators to achieve broad societal goals for forests. A concluding chapter draws out the key lessons of changes in forest management in recent decades and sets out some thoughts for the future. This book is a must-read for practitioners, researchers and policy makers concerned with forests and land use. It contains lessons for all those concerned with forests as sources of people's livelihoods and as part of rural landscapes. Published with IUCN and PROFOR

Author : O. Bastian,Uta Steinhardt
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 523 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401712378

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Development and Perspectives of Landscape Ecology by O. Bastian,Uta Steinhardt Pdf

Development and status of landscape ecology - subject of this book During the last decades, landscape ecology has developed tremendously. It concerns both the theoretical basis and practical application. The roots of landscape ecology are geography and biology. The term "landscape ecology" was first coined by the German scientist Carl Troll in 1939. ünce, the devel opment center of landscape ecology was in Central Europe. Recently, also other parts of the world became powernd centers of landscape ecology, es pecially Northern America. American approaches partly differ essentially from the European, because they are focused esp. on biogeography and population dynamics. In Europe, however, the geographical roots of land scape ecology playamajor role. Landscape is defined as a complex of abiotic, biotic and human components. Mainly due to linguistic barriers, the international discussion does not take notice of approaches and experiences from non-anglophone countries in a sufficient manner. Therefore this book considers more the German and European views on landscape ecology than the books which were published before. It tries to bridge the gaps between theory and practice of landscape ecology, as well between the Ger manlEuropean and American approach es. The book gives a fundamental representation of landscape ecology, which proves to be a young, but an interesting and very important transdisci plinary science for the solution of environmental problems. Both the theo retical basis and practical application of landscape ecology are considered.

Author : Christoph Leuschner,Heinz Ellenberg
Publisher : Springer
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319430423

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Ecology of Central European Forests by Christoph Leuschner,Heinz Ellenberg Pdf

This handbook in two volumes synthesises our knowledge about the ecology of Central Europe’s plant cover with its 7000-yr history of human impact, covering Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Austria, Czech Republic and Slovakia. Based on a thorough literature review with 5500 cited references and nearly 1000 figures and tables, the two books review in 26 chapters all major natural and man-made vegetation types with their climatic and edaphic influences, the structure and dynamics of their communities, the ecophysiology of important plant species, and key aspects of ecosystem functioning. Volume I deals with the forests and scrub vegetation and analyses the ecology of Central Europe’s tree flora, whilst Volume II is dedicated to the non-forest vegetation covering mires, grasslands, heaths, alpine habitats and urban vegetation. The consequences of over-use, pollution and recent climate change over the last century are explored and conservation issues addressed.

Author : Thomas Foken
Publisher : Springer
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319493893

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Energy and Matter Fluxes of a Spruce Forest Ecosystem by Thomas Foken Pdf

This book focuses on fluxes of energy, carbon dioxide and matter in and above a Central European spruce forest. The transition from a forest affected by acid rain into a heterogeneous forest occurred as a result of wind throw, bark beetles and climate change. Scientific results obtained over the last 20 years at the FLUXNET site DE-Bay (Waldstein-Weidenbrunnen) are shown together with methods developed at the site, including the application of footprint models for data-quality analysis, the coupling between the trunk space and the atmosphere, the importance of the Damköhler number for trace gas studies, and the turbulent conditions at a forest edge. In addition to the many experimental studies, the book also applies model studies such as higher-order closure models, Large-Eddy Simulations, and runoff models for the catchment and compares them with the experimental data. Moreover, by highlighting processes in the atmosphere it offers insights into the functioning of the ecosystem as a whole. It is of interest to ecologists, micrometeorologists and ecosystem modelers.

Author : Sun-Kee Hong,Nobukazu Nakagoshi,Bojie Fu,Yukihiro Morimoto
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781402054877

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Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas by Sun-Kee Hong,Nobukazu Nakagoshi,Bojie Fu,Yukihiro Morimoto Pdf

Landscape Ecological Applications in Man-Influenced Areas not only expands the concept of landscape ecology, but also applies its principles to man-influenced ecosystems. New dimensions of landscape ecological research in a global change such as urbanization, biodiversity, and land transformation are explored in this book. The book also includes case studies concerning landscape analysis and evaluation using spatial analysis and landscape modelling for establishing sustainable management strategy in urban and agricultural landscapes.

Author : Lothar Mueller,Viktor G. Sychev,Nikolai M. Dronin,Frank Eulenstein
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 735 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030674489

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Exploring and Optimizing Agricultural Landscapes by Lothar Mueller,Viktor G. Sychev,Nikolai M. Dronin,Frank Eulenstein Pdf

The book informs about agricultural landscapes, their features, functions and regulatory mechanisms. It characterizes agricultural production systems, trends of their development, and their impacts on the landscape. Agricultural landscapes are multifunctional systems, coupled with all nexus problems of the 21th century. This has led to serious discrepancies between agriculture and environment, and between urban and rural population. The mission, key topics and methods of research in order to understanding, monitoring and controlling processes in rural landscapes is being explained. Studies of international expert teams, many of them from Russia, demonstrate approaches towards both improving agricultural productivity and sustainability, and enhancing ecosystem services of agricultural landscapes. Scientists of different disciplines, decision makers, farmers and further informed people dealing with the evolvement of thriving rural landscapes are the primary audience of this book.

Author : Bruce C. Forbes,Manfred Bölter,Ludger Müller-Wille,Janne Hukkinen,Felix Müller,Nicolas Gunslay,Yulian Konstantinov
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2006-03-09
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783540313922

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Reindeer Management in Northernmost Europe by Bruce C. Forbes,Manfred Bölter,Ludger Müller-Wille,Janne Hukkinen,Felix Müller,Nicolas Gunslay,Yulian Konstantinov Pdf

The findings presented in this volume represent a concerted effort to develop a more inclusive form of reindeer management for northernmost Europe. Our guiding principle has been to foster a new paradigm of participatory research. We wish to move beyond the historical reliance on western approaches to basic and applied science. These have been concerned prim- ily with interactions between herded animals and the various components of their biophysical environment, e. g. , plants, insects, predators, climate, and others. In our view,sociocultural and economic drivers,along with herders’ experience-based knowledge,gain equal currency in the effort to understand how management may mitigate against the negative aspects of the challenges modern herding faces, while also exploring concepts of sustainability from different perspectives (see also Jernsletten and Klokov 2002; Kankaanpää et al. 2002; Ulvevadet and Klokov 2004). This broadening of the pool of disciplines and local,national,and int- national stakeholders in policy-relevant research invariably complicates v- tually all aspects of the research process. Multidisciplinary or, in our sense, transdisciplinary approaches also require extraordinary effort from all p- ticipants if they are to succeed. As such, those approaches should not be undertaken lightly, nor without personnel who possess appropriate expe- ence in cooperating with those of different disciplines and, preferably, also with relevant practitioners and public social and administrative institutions. In such settings the potential for misunderstandings is quite high.

Author : R. Bargagli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Nature
ISBN : 3540220917

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Antarctic Ecosystems by R. Bargagli Pdf

This volume provides an overview of climate change data, its effects on the structure and functioning of Antarctic ecosystems, and the occurrence and cycling of persistent contaminants. It discusses the role of Antarctic research for the protection of the global environment. The book also examines possible future scenarios of climate change and the role of Antarctic organisms in the early detection of environmental perturbations.

Author : Otto Fränzle,Ludger Kappen,Hans-Peter Blume,Klaus Dierßen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783540758112

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Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape by Otto Fränzle,Ludger Kappen,Hans-Peter Blume,Klaus Dierßen Pdf

This volume is an essential text for scientists from a huge variety of disciplines, from ecologists to geographers and soil scientists. It provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhöved Lake District of northern Germany. The emphasis is on the comprehensive assessment of matter and energy fluxes. These operate in and between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems on the one hand, and on transdisciplinary landscape planning approaches on the other.

Author : D.O. Hessen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783642560750

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UV Radiation and Arctic Ecosystems by D.O. Hessen Pdf

Although there are some biological processes that are supported by UV radiation, most organisms are stressed by it in various ways, e.g. through DNA damage. Top international experts present an integrated overview of UV radiation and its effects on terrestrial, freshwater and marine Arctic biota. Increased stratospheric ozone depletion and the corresponding increase in ground levels of UV radiation as well as ambient, "natural" UV radiation as a key ecological factor in the Arctic spring and summer are discussed in detail. Additionally, basic information on Arctic ecosystems is given. The volume provides not only an excellent account of present-day knowledge of the subject, but also describes the state of the art on which future research can be built.

Author : Laszlo Nagy,Georg Grabherr,Christian Körner,Desmond B.A. Thompson
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 508 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2003-06-12
Category : Science
ISBN : 3540001085

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Alpine Biodiversity in Europe by Laszlo Nagy,Georg Grabherr,Christian Körner,Desmond B.A. Thompson Pdf

The United Nations Conference on the Environment and Development (UNCED), held in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, spawned a multitude of pro grammes aimed at assessing, managing and conserving the earth's biological diversity. One important issue addressed at the conference was the mountain environment. A specific feature of high mountains is the so-called alpine zone, i. e. the treeless regions at the uppermost reaches. Though covering only a very small proportion of the land surface, the alpine zone contains a rela tively large number of plants, animals, fungi and microbes which are specifi cally adapted to cold environments. This zone contributes fundamentally to the planet's biodiversity and provides many resources for mountain dwelling as well as lowland people. However, rapid and largely man-made changes are affecting mountain ecosystems, such as soil erosion, losses of habitat and genetic diversity, and climate change, all of which have to be addressed. As stated in the European Community Biodiversity Strategy, "the global scale of biodiversity reduction or losses and the interdependence of different species and ecosystems across national borders demands concerted international action". Managing biodiversity in a rational and sustainable way needs basic knowledge on its qualitative and quantitative aspects at local, regional and global scales. This is particularly true for mountains, which are distributed throughout the world and are indeed hot spots of biodiversity in absolute terms as well as relative to the surrounding lowlands.