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Spatial optimization in ecological applications /
Whether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or black-tailed prairie dog or strategies for controlling exotic pests, this book explains how capturing ecological relationships across a landscape with pragmatic optimization models can be applied to real world problems. Using linea...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
[2002]
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| Colección: | Complexity in ecological systems series.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Sedimentation
- 3. Stormflow management
- 4. Natural regeneration in any-aged forest management
- 5. Combining simulation with optimization: habitat placement for the northern spotted owl
- 6. Characteristics of the discrete reaction-diffusion model
- 7. The basic model: habitat placement for the black-footed ferret
- 8. Population-dependent dispersal: habitat placement for the black-tailed prairie dog
- 9. Topography-based dispersal: habitat location for the western prairie fringed orchid
- 10. Habitat edge effects
- 11. Strategies for controlling exotic pests
- 12. Strategies for controlling wildfire
- 13. Multiscaled ecological limiting factors
- 14. Carbon fixation in trees as an optimization process
- 15. Postscript.