Applied ecology and natural resource management

✍ Scribed by McPherson G.R., DeStefano S.

• Publisher: CUP
• Year: 2003
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 181
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume bridges the gap between ecology and natural resource management and, in particular, focuses on plant ecology as a foundation for vegetation and wildlife management. It describes how concepts and approaches used by ecologists to study communities and ecosystems can be applied to their management. Guy R. McPherson and Stephen DeStefano emphasize the importance of thoughtfully designed and conducted scientific studies to both the advancement of ecological knowledge and the application of techniques for the management of plant and animal populations.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Dedication......Page 7
Contents......Page 9
Preface......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 14
1 Integrating ecology and management......Page 17
ECOLOGY AS A SCIENCE......Page 18
TESTING ECOLOGICAL HYPOTHESES......Page 23
LIMITS TO THE APPLICATION OF ECOLOGY......Page 25
LINKING SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT......Page 26
MAKING MANAGEMENT DECISIONS......Page 27
PURSUING RELEVANT ECOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE......Page 30
SUMMARY......Page 32
CLASSIFYING INTERACTIONS......Page 33
Descriptive studies......Page 38
Comparative studies......Page 41
Models......Page 42
Experiments......Page 45
Removal experiments......Page 47
Additive experiments......Page 50
Laboratory experiments......Page 51
Field experiments......Page 52
DETECTING INTERACTIONS......Page 55
MANAGING INTERACTIONS......Page 57
Interference......Page 58
Herbivory......Page 60
Seed dispersal......Page 61
SUMMARY......Page 63
THE COMMUNITY CONCEPT......Page 65
DESCRIBING COMMUNITIES......Page 66
General considerations......Page 68
Typical sampling methods......Page 71
Data management......Page 78
Richness......Page 79
Simpson’s index......Page 83
Shannon–Weaver index......Page 84
Models of community structure......Page 85
Models of community organization......Page 86
Ordination......Page 88
Classification......Page 102
Clustering algorithms......Page 105
Process models......Page 113
SUMMARY......Page 114
4 Succession......Page 115
TRADITIONAL VIEW......Page 116
CHANGING VIEWS......Page 119
THE CONTEMPORARY VIEW......Page 123
Retrospective approaches......Page 124
Monitoring......Page 130
Comparative studies......Page 132
IMPLICATIONS FOR WILDLIFE POPULATIONS......Page 135
SUMMARY......Page 140
5 Closing the gap between science and management......Page 143
GOALS FOR APPLYING ECOLOGY......Page 145
EVALUATING PROGRESS......Page 146
THE RELEVANCE OF ECOLOGY TO NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT......Page 148
CONSTRAINTS ON APPLYING ECOLOGY......Page 151
The terminology of scale......Page 152
Ecology and management within a socio-political context......Page 153
APPLYING ECOLOGY......Page 156
References......Page 159
Index......Page 177

✦ Subjects

Экологические дисциплины;Экологический менеджмент;