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Enclosed Experimental Ecosystems and Scale Tools for Understanding and Managing Coastal Ecosystems /

The environmental challenges now facing humanity, ranging from climate change to urbanization to invasive species to agricultural and industrial pollutants are particularly acute in the coastal zone. Research in this region and in other aquatic ecosystems is complicated by interactions that occur ov...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Petersen, John E. (Editor ), Kennedy, Victor S. (Editor ), Dennison, William C. (Editor ), Kemp, W. Michael (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2009.
Edición:1st ed. 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Introduction and Background: Coastal ecosystems, management, and research
  • Concepts of scale in ecology
  • Mesocosms and scaling patterns
  • Using mesocosms to study the effects of scale
  • Designing Experimental Ecosystem Studies: General principles
  • Temporal and spatial scaling
  • Mixing and flow
  • Materials exchange
  • Light
  • Walls
  • Temperature
  • Physical and biological complexity
  • Aquatic grasses
  • Marshes
  • Sediments
  • Chemistry
  • Tools for Design and Analysis of Experiments: The world is variable
  • Dimensional analysis
  • Modeling tools
  • Applications: Benthic organisms
  • Nutrient enrichment and trophic efficiency
  • Aquatic grasses, nutrients, and suspended sediments
  • Index.