Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Individuals and single populations
  • Population interactions
  • Community ecology
  • Materials and energy
  • Scales in space and time
  • Analog, generic, and pilot studies and treatment of a project as an experiment
  • Indicator species and biological monitoring
  • Dealing with uncertainty
  • The special problem of cumulative effects
  • A scientific framework for environmental problem-solving
  • References
  • North Pacific halibut fishery management / David Policansky
  • Vampire bat control in Latin America / G. Clay Mitchell
  • Biological control of California red scale / Robert F. Luck
  • Experimental control of malaria in West Africa / Robert M. May
  • Protecting caribou during hydroelectric development in Newfoundland / David J. Kiell, Edward L. Hill, and Shane P. Mahoney
  • Conserving a regional spotted owl population / Hal Salwasser
  • Restoring derelict lands in Great Britain / Peter Wathern
  • Optimizing timber yields in New Brunswick forests / Thom A. Erdle and Gordon L. Baskerville
  • Control of eutrophication in Lake Washington : Raising the level of a subarctic lake / John T. Lehman
  • Ecological effects of nuclear radiation : Ecological effects of forest clearcutting / Carl F. Jordan
  • Environmental effects of DDT / John Buckley.