As the vast expanses of natural forests and the great populations of salmonids are harvested to support a rapidly expanding human population, the need to understand streams as ecological systems and to manage them effectively becomes increasingly urgent. The unfortunate legacy of such natural resource exploitation is well documented. For several decades the Pacific coastal ecoregion of North America has served as a natural laboratory for scientific and managerial advancements in stream ecology, and much has been learned about how to better integrate ecological processes and characteristics with a human-dominated environment. These in sightful but hard-learned ecological and social lessons are the subject of this book. Integrating land and rivers as interactive components of ecosystems and watersheds has provided the ecological sciences with impor tant theoretical foundations. Even though scientific disciplines have begun to integrate land-based processes with streams and rivers, the institutions and processes charged with managing these systems have not done so successfully. As a result, many of the watersheds of the Pacific coastal ecoregion no longer support natural settings for environmental processes or the valuable natural resources those processes create. An important role for scientists, educators, and decision makers is to make the integration between ecology and con sumptive uses more widely understood, as well as useful for effective management.
Produktkennzeichnungen
Herausgeber
Robert J. Naiman, Sylvia Kantor, Robert E. Bilby
ISBN-10
0387952462
ISBN-13
9780387952468
eBay Product ID (ePID)
4274324
Produkt Hauptmerkmale
Produktart
Lehrbuch
Sprache
Englisch
Anzahl der Seiten
Xxiv Seiten
Verlag
Springer-Verlag Gmbh, Springer Us
Publikationsname
River Ecology And Management
Autor
Robert J. Naiman, Sylvia Kantor, Robert E. Bilby
Format
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsjahr
2001
Zusätzliche Produkteigenschaften
Hörbuch
No
Item Length
25cm
Item Height
3cm
Item Width
17cm
Item Weight
1kg
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