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1 online resource (400 pages) |
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""Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Problem-Solving""; ""Copyright""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""STRUCTURE AND AUDIENCE OF THE REPORT""; ""Structure""; ""Audience""; ""TYPES OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE""; ""Complex Linkages""; ""Density Dependence""; ""The Uniqueness of Individuals""; ""Keystone Species""; ""Biological Magnification""; ""Population Fragmentation""; ""Stability Boundaries""; ""Aggregate Variables""; ""Complexity and Uncertainty""; ""Scales in Space and Time""; ""APPLICATIONS OF ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE""; ""Renewable-Resource Management"" |
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""Conservation of Species""""Control of Pests and Diseases""; ""Impact Assessment and Prediction of Effects""; ""Preservation of Communities""; ""Preservation of Habitat""; ""Contaminants and Toxic Substances""; ""Mitigation of Effects of Construction""; ""Restoration""; ""General Applications""; ""THE CASE STUDIES""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""I Kinds of Ecological Knowledge and Their Applications""; ""1 Individuals and Single Populations""; ""IDENTIFYING KEY FACTORS""; ""BEHAVIOR""; ""Habitat Selection""; ""Mating Systems""; ""Social Interactions""; ""POPULATION DYNAMICS"" |
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""Population Regulation""""Population Stability""; ""Dispersion and Population Movements""; ""Growth Rates, Age, and Size""; ""Age Structure""; ""Sex Ratios and Sex Biases""; ""GENETIC AND EVOLUTIONARY CONCERNS""; ""The Evolution of Resistance to Pesticides""; ""Genetic Consequences of Differential Harvesting by Sex and Size""; ""Genetic Consequences of Small Population Size""; ""2 Population Interactions""; ""PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTIONS""; ""COMPETITIVE INTERACTIONS""; ""MUTUALISTIC INTERACTIONS""; ""INDIRECT EFFECTS""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""3 Community Ecology""; ""INTRODUCTION"" |
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""SPECIES COMPOSITION""""FACTORS AFFECTING SPECIES DIVERSITY""; ""Predation""; ""Competition""; ""Productivity""; ""Spatial Factors""; ""Summary""; ""COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION""; ""STABILITY AND RESILIENCE OF ECOLOGICAL COMMUNITIES""; ""INVADABILITY""; ""SUBSTITUTABILITY""; ""ECOLOGICAL SUCCESSION""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""4 Materials and Energy ""; ""PERTURBATIONS AND PRODUCTIVITY""; ""CHEMICAL PATHWAYS AND BIOLOGICAL CONCENTRATION""; ""NUTRIENT FLUXES""; ""INTERACTIONS AMONG PRODUCTIVITY, BIOMASS, AND NUTRIENTS""; ""INDEXES OF ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING""; ""CONCLUSIONS"" |
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""5 Scales in Space and Time""""PATCHINESS AND COMMUNITY COMPOSITION""; ""Species-Area Relationship""; ""Extinction of Small Populations""; ""Patch Geometry and Edge Effects""; ""DISTRIBUTION OF PATCHES IN SPACE AND TIME""; ""Spatial Considerations""; ""Temporal Considerations""; ""CONCLUSIONS""; ""6 Analog, Generic, and Pilot Studies and Treatment of a Project as an Experiment ""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""ANALOG STUDIES""; ""GENERIC STUDIES""; ""PILOT-SCALE EXPERIMENTS""; ""TREATING A PROJECT OR ACTION AS AN EXPERIMENT""; ""7 Indicator Species and Biological Monitoring "" |
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""Choice of organisms to use for biological monitoring"" |
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Print version record |
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Nature conservation -- Case studies
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Environmental protection -- Case studies
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Conservation of natural resources -- Case studies
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Ecology.
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Conservation of natural resources
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Ecology
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Environmental protection
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Nature conservation
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780309542517 |
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0309542510 |
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