Network approaches to ecological questions have been increasingly used, particularly in
recent decades. The abstraction of ecological systems–such as communities–through …

In the context of present global changes, interest in understanding how systems respond to
anthropogenic environmental pressures and stress has increased. Indices that characterize …

Rapid urbanization and large-scale industrialization in China have produced problems that
affect resources, the environment, and local ecology, which are obstacles to urban …

Ecological economics is a way of rethinking the relationship between humans and the
environment and working out the implications of how we manage our lives and the planet …

The book addresses the lack of a clear conception of the term'health'in relation to
ecosystems and analyses the normative, conceptual, and biological issues surrounding the …

Bivalves, such as clams and oysters, are species having two-valved shells. In the marine
ecosystem these species play a unique and essential role. This book examines the ecology …

Contemporary science is preoccupied with that which exists; it rarely accounts for what is
missing. But often the key to a system's persistence lies with information concerning …

Rapid deterioration of the world's major ecosystems has intensified the need for effective
environmental monitoring and the development of operational indicators of ecosystem …

Ecosystem health is a normative concept: a bottom line. It repre-sents a desired endpoint of
environmental management, but the concept has been difficult to use because of the …

When conventional economic input-output (IO) analysis is applied to ecological networks, it
traces only the positive benefits that material and energetic exchanges impart to their …