Managing Biological and Ecological Systems

✍ Scribed by Brian D. Fath (Editor); Sven Erik Jorgensen (Editor)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Leaves: 445
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Bringing together a wealth of knowledge, Environmental Management Handbook, Second Edition, gives a comprehensive overview of environmental problems, their sources, their assessment, and their solutions. Through in-depth entries and a topical table of contents, readers will quickly find answers to questions about environmental problems and their corresponding management issues. This six-volume set is a reimagining of the award-winning Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, published in 2013, and features insights from more than 400 contributors, all experts in their field.

The experience, evidence, methods, and models used in studying environmental management are presented here in six stand-alone volumes, arranged along the major environmental systems.

Features

• The first handbook that demonstrates the key processes and provisions for enhancing environmental management
• Addresses new and cutting-edge topics on ecosystem services, resilience, sustainability, food–energy–water nexus, socio-ecological systems, and more
• Provides an excellent basic knowledge on environmental systems, explains how these systems function, and offers strategies on how to best manage them
• Includes the most important problems and solutions facing environmental management today

In this second volume, Managing Biological and Ecological Systems, the reader is introduced to the general concepts and processes of the biosphere and all its systems. This volume explains how these systems function and provides strategies on how to best manage them. It serves as an excellent resource for finding basic knowledge on the biosphere and ecological systems and includes important problems and solutions that environmental managers face today. This book practically demonstrates the key processes, methods, and models used in studying environmental management.

✦ Table of Contents

Section I: APC: Anthropogenic Chemicals: The Articles Cover Human-Manufactured Chemicals and Activities

1. Animals: Sterility from Pesticides

[William Au]

2. Bacillus thuringiensis: Transgenic Crops

[Julie A. Peterson, John J. Obrycki, and James D. Harwood]

3. Biopesticides

[G. J. Ash and A. Wang]

4. Birds: Chemical Control

[Eric B. Spurr]

5. Birds: Pesticide Use Impacts

[Pierre Mineau]

6. Insect Growth Regulators

[Meir Paul Pener]

Section II: COV: Indicates That the Articles Give Comparative Overviews of Important Topics for Environmental Management

7. Biodiversity and Sustainability

[Odo Primavesi]

8. Biofertilizers

[J. R. de Freitas]

9. Ecosystems: Large-Scale Restoration Governance

[Shannon Estenoz, Denise Vienne, and Alka Sapat]

10. Ecosystems: Planning and Trade-offs

[Ioan M. Ciumasu, Keith Culver, Mihai Costica, and Jean-Paul Vanderlinden]

11. Natural Enemies: Conservation

[Cetin Sengonca]

12. Pests: Landscape Patterns

[F. Craig Stevenson]

Section III: CSS: The Articles Gives a Case Study of a Particular Environmental Management Example

13. Biological Control of Vertebrates: Myxoma Virus and Rabbit Hemorrhagic Disease Virus as Biological Controls for Rabbits

[Peter Kerr and Tanja Strive]

14. Cabbage Disease Ecology and Management

[Anthony P. Keinath, Marc A. Cubeta, and David B. Langston, Jr.]

15. Natural Enemies and Biocontrol: Artificial Diets

[Simon Grenier and Patrick De Clerq]

Section IV: DIA: Means That the Articles Are about Diagnostic Tools: Monitoring, Ecological Modeling, Ecological Indicators, and Ecological Services

16. Animals: Toxicological Evaluation

[Vera Lucia S.S. de Castro]

17. Bioindicators for Sustainable Agroecosystems

[Joji Muramoto and Stephen R. Gliessman]

18. Ecological Indicators: Eco-Exergy to Emergy Flow

[Simone Bastianoni, Luca Coscieme, and Federico M. Pulselli]

19. Ecological Indicators: Ecosystem Health

[Felix Muller, Benjamin Burkhard, Marion Kandziora, Claus Schimming, and Wilhelm Windhorst]

20. Sustainable Fisheries: Models and Management

[Fabian Zimmermann and Katja Enberg]

Section V: ENT: Addresses Environmental Management Using Environmental Technologies

21. Bioremediation: Contaminated Soil Restoration

[Sven Erik Jorgensen]

22. Biotechnology: Pest Management

[Maurizio G. Paoletti]

23. Plant Pathogens (Fungi): Biological Control

[Timothy Paulitz]

24. Plant Pathogens (Viruses): Biological Control

[Hei-Ti Hsu]

25. Stored-Product Pests: Biological Control

[Lise Stengard Hansen]

26. Weeds (Insects and Mites): Biological Control

[Peter Harris]

Section VI: NEC: Natural Elements and Chemicals: The Articles Cover Basic Elements and Chemicals Found in Nature

27. Antagonistic Plants

[Philip Oduor-Owino]

28. Arthropod Host-Plant Resistant Crops

[Gerald E. Wilde]

29. Biomass

[Alberto Traverso and David Tucker]

30. Nematodes: Biological Control

[Simon Gowen]

Section VII: PRO: The Articles Cover Basic Environmental Processes

31. Agroforestry: Water Use Efficiency

[James R. Brandle, Laurie Hodges, and Xinhua Zhou]

32. Bacterial Pest Control

[David N. Ferro]

33. Bioaccumulation

[Tomaz Langenbach]

34. Biodegradation

[Sven Erik Jorgensen]

35. Biological Control of Vertebrates

[Peter Kerr and Tanja Strive]

36. Biological Controls

[Heikki Hokkanen]

37. Biological Factors Impeding Recovery of Predatory Fish Populations

[Catalina Chaparro Pedraza]

38. Bioremediation

[Ragini Gothalwal]

39. Composting

[Nidia Sa Caetano]

40. Insects and Mites: Biological Control

[Ann E. Hajek]

41. Invasion Biology

[Jennifer Ruesink]