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Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making

Scientists and managers have largely abandoned classic models that assume natural systems are in equilibrium and recognize the importance of understanding interactions between, and among, biotic and abiotic factors in ecosystems, and how these interactions lead to complexities that should be factore...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Guntenspergen, Glenn R. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
Edición:1st ed. 2014.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Threshold Concepts: Implications for the Management of Natural Resources
  • Thresholds for conservation and management: structured decision making as a conceptual framework
  • Identifying objectives and alternative actions to frame a decision problem
  • Optimization in Natural Resources Conservation
  • Application of Threshold Concepts to Ecological Management Problems: Occupancy of Golden Eagles in Denali National Park, Alaska
  • Monitoring for threshold-dependent decisions
  • Applying Threshold Concepts to Conservation Management of Dryland
  • Using Natural Range of Variation to Set Decision Thresholds: A Case Study for Great Plains Grasslands
  • Evaluating bioassessment designs and decision thresholds using simulation techniques
  • Getting the message across: Using ecological integrity to communicate with resource managers
  • Use, misuse, and limitations of Threshold Indicator Taxa Analysis (TITAN) for natural resource management
  • Ecosystem trajectories: A statistical approach to analyze changing pressure-response relationships over time
  • Detection of Harbingers of Catastrophic Regime Shifts in Drylands
  • Case Study Chapter: Ecological Thresholds for Salt Marsh Nekton and Vegetation Communities
  • Index.