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The first book entirely devoted to this topic, Ecosystem Engineers begins with the history of the concept, presenting opposing definitions of ecosystem engineering. These varied definitions advance the debate and move past trivial difficulties to crystallize key issues such as the value of process-b...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cuddington, Kim
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2007.
Colección:Theoretical ecology series.
Temas:
Habitat (Ecology) > Modification.
Ecology.
Habitat (Écologie) > Modification.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
NATURE > Ecosystems & Habitats > Wilderness.
NATURE > Ecology.
SCIENCE > Life Sciences > Ecology.
Beeinflussung
Organismus
Ökosystem
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Section 1 History and Concepts
  • Section 2 Examples and Applications
  • Section 3 Theory and Models
  • Section 4 Socio-economic issues and management solutions.
  • Section I. History and definitions of ecosystem engineering
  • 1. On the purpose, meaning, and usage of the physical ecosystem engineering concept
  • 2. A historical perspective on ecosystem engineering
  • 3. A new spirit and concept for ecosystem engineering?
  • 4. Ecosystem engineering: utility, contention, and progress
  • Section II. Examaples and applications
  • 5. Earthworms as key actors in self-organized soil systems
  • 6. Microhabitat manipulation: ecosystem engineering by shelter-building insects
  • 7. Carpobrotus as a case study of the complexities of species impacts
  • 8. Ecosystem engineering in the fossil record: early examples from the Cambrian period
  • 9. Habitat conversion associated with bioeroding marine isopods
  • 10. Lessons from disparate ecosystem engineers
  • Section III. Theories and models
  • 11. Community responses to environmental change: results of Lotka-Volterra community theory
  • 12. Model studies of ecosystem engineering in plant communities
  • 13. Balancing the engineer-environment equation: the current legacy
  • 14. Synthesis of ecosystem engineering theory
  • Section IV. Socio-economic issues and management solutions
  • 15. Restoring oyster reefs to recover ecosystem services
  • 16. Managing invasive ecosystem engineers: the case of Spartina in Pacific estuaries
  • 17. Livestock and engineering network in the Israeli Negev: implications for ecosystem management
  • 18. Ecosystem engineers and the complex dynamics of non-native species management on California's Channel Islands
  • 19. The diverse faces of ecosystem engineers in agroecosystems
  • 20. Management and ecosystem engineers: current knowledge and future challenges.

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