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Ecosystem engineers : plants to protists

Author: Kim Cuddington; et al
Publisher: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2007.
Series: Theoretical ecology series.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Illustrates how to inform and manage natural resources. This book provides definitions, case studies, and examples of ecological models. It discusses how ecosystem engineering can inform and improve  Read more...

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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Kim Cuddington; et al
ISBN: 9780123738578 0123738571
OCLC Number: 123818304
Description: xix, 405 p., [10] p. of plates : ill. (some col.) ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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.
Series Title: Theoretical ecology series.
Responsibility: [editors] Kim Cuddington ... [et al.].
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