ecological assessment Books
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Ecological Causal Assessment
The book provides a deeper understanding of different philosophical and analytical approaches, and of cognitive tendencies that can lead to errors. It describes formal processes for causal assessment that are particularly helpful when the situation is complex or contentious. It also describes how to ...
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Ecological Assessment of Macrophyton: Collection, Use and Meaning of Data
Establishes a baseline of compilation of currently used methods to sample population of aquatic macrophytes. Discusses: designing sampling programs; Statistical problems; Mechanical sampling devices; and aerial ...
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Applied Wetlands Science and Technology, Second Edition
Continuing the tradition of excellence established by the first edition, the Second Edition of Applied Wetlands Science and Technology provides the fundamentals for delineating, identifying, and regulating wetlands. It covers functions and values, ecological assessments, and how to minimize negative ...
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Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar: A Conservation Assessment
As part of a global effort to identify those areas where conservation measures are needed most urgently, World Wildlife Fund has assembled teams of scientists to conduct ecological assessments of all seven continents. Freshwater Ecoregions of Africa and Madagascar is the latest contribution, presenting in a ...
By Island Press
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A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments
Ecological assessments are a critical component of land management planning and regulatory decision-making. In the United States, for example, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 directs that the environmental consequences associated with proposed management of federal lands be fully disclosed to the ...
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A Guidebook for Integrated Ecological Assessments
Ecological assessments are a critical component of land management planning and regulatory decision-making. In the United States, for example, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 directs that the environmental consequences associated with proposed management of federal lands be fully disclosed to the ...
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Ecological Assessments of Effluent Impacts on Communities of Indigenous Aquatic Organisms
Authoritative information ranges from environmental impact analysis of aquatic ecosystems using rational threshold value methodologies to annual macroinvertebrate sampling--a low cost tool for ecological assessment of effluent ...
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Superfund Risk Assessment in Soil Contamination Studies, 2nd Volume
Features the latest state-of-the-art research on soil risk assessment methodology. 12 comprehensive peer-reviewed papers are presented in the following four categories: • Background Determination • Data Collection Validation • Exposure Assessment • and Ecological ...
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Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management
With contributions from a wide array of economists, ecologists, and government agency professionals, Economics and Ecological Risk Assessment: Applications to Watershed Management provides a multidisciplinary approach to environmental decision-making at a watershed level. It introduces the fields of ecological ...
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Assessment and Management of Plant Invasions
Biological invasion of native plant communities is a high-priority problem in the field of environmental management. Resource managers, biologists, and all those involved in plant communities must consider ecological interactions when assessing both the effects of plant invasion and the long-term effects of ...
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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment establishes a framework for goals, methods, and data needs for different assessment applications and for integrating population-level risk assessment into risk management decisions. Highlighting key considerations needed to improve the quality and ...
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Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals
A wide-ranging compilation of techniques, Extrapolation Practice for Ecotoxicological Effect Characterization of Chemicals describes methods of extrapolation in the framework of ecological risk assessment. The book, informally known as EXPECT, identifies data needs and situations where these extrapolations can be ...
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Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment: Using the Relative Risk Model
Regional Scale Ecological Risk Assessment: Using the Relative Risk Model is a collaborative summary and guidebook of the development, methods, and application of the Relative Risk Model (RRM) to meet the need for regional assessments with multiple stressors from diverse sources and numerous desired endpoints. ...
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Species Sensitivity Distributions in Ecotoxicology
In spite of the growing importance of Species Sensitivity Distribution models (SSDs) in ecological risk assessments, the conceptual basis, strengths, and weaknesses of using them have not been comprehensively reviewed. This book fills that need. Written by a panel of international experts, Species ...
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Environmental Toxicology and Risk Assessment: 3rd Vol.
Features the latest advances in determining the impact of chemicals on the environment. A comprehensive overview of the current status of ecological risk assessment and suggested advances for the discipline is the cornerstone of this publication. Twenty-two additional papers are presented in five categories, ...
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Wetland Landscape Characterization: GIS, Remote Sensing and Image Analysis
, and ecological risk assessments. Using numerous technical methods, Wetland Landscape Characterization ...
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Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition
The definitive reference in its field, Ecological Risk Assessment, Second Edition details the latest advances in science and practice. In the fourteen years since the publication of the best-selling first edition, ecological risk assessment (ERA) has moved from the margins into the spotlight. It is now ...
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Interconnections Between Human and Ecosystem Health
This book addresses comparisons between human-environmental health and the health of the natural world by authors from several disciplines such as molecular biology, toxicology, ecology, risk assessment and risk perception, economics, psychology and literature. Because the subject of the book is ...
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Genomics in Regulatory Ecotoxicology: Applications and Challenges
current approaches for ecological risk assessments. It also identifies biomarkers of exposure and ...
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Population-Level Ecological Risk Assessment
Most ecological risk assessments consider the risk to individual organisms or organism-level attributes. From a management perspective, however, risks to population-level attributes and processes are often more relevant. Despite many published calls for population risk assessment and the abundance of ...
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