Download or read book Ecological Monitoring Assessment and Management in Freshwater Systems written by Young-Seuk Park and published by MDPI. This book was released on 2018-09-27 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Ecological Monitoring, Assessment, and Management in Freshwater Systems" that was published in Water
Download or read book Ecological Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems written by Eva Papastergiadou and published by . This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the broad framework of "Ecological Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwaters'', this Special Issue aims to highlight new research findings and significant advances concerning all aspects of bio assessment and aquatic ecosystem processes. Emphasis was given to contributions that explore the dynamics and functioning of freshwater ecosystems, develop new methods for monitoring and assessing ecological quality, investigate the use of biotic metrics or indices, consider environmental DNA methods, include experimental studies, and promote the use of modelling approaches. We believe that this reprint of "Ecological Monitoring and Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems: New Trends and Future Challenges", will offer readers comprehensive and in-depth knowledge, thereby promoting further research in the field of freshwater monitoring and assessment of ecological quality. This collection of twelve original articles, accepted for publication from four continents of the world (Europe, North America, Africa, and Asia), expands our current knowledge on various topics, including the use of freshwater biota as indicators of environmental change, the application of models for predicting biological parameters, and the use of eDNA methods for monitoring invasive species.
Download or read book Ecological Monitoring Assessment and Management in Freshwater Systems written by Young-Seuk Park and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, sustainability of a healthy freshwater ecosystem and its associated ecosystem services are hot issues with ever-growing attention placed upon them. We are increasingly recognizing that they are crucial for the survival of the aquatic biota and human beings on our planet. The efficient monitoring of water resources is fundamental for effective management of water quality and aquatic ecosystems. The first stage in sustainable ecosystem management is the evaluation of the current status of target ecosystems. Traditionally, and even today, physico-chemical parameters have mainly been used to evaluate the quality of water resources. However, they have a large limit to grab the wholeness of water system, particularly in the sense of ecosystem health and integrity, for which ecological monitoring should be based on biological factors. Various approaches are applicable to ecosystem health assessment at different levels of the biological hierarchy, from genes to ecosystems. This Special Issue is designed to improve scientific understanding and strategies for sound aquatic ecosystem management and services for researchers, decision makers, and stakeholders
Download or read book Biological Monitoring of Aquatic Systems written by Stanford, L. Loeb and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1994-01-24 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With regional, national, and global processes affecting both the structure and function of lakes and rivers, assessment methodology must encompass many attributes to evaluate the impact of these processes on water quality. Many of the changes in biological communities correlate to resource exploitation, nonpoint pollutant interactions, and habitat alteration - factors that can be missed by routine chemical sampling. This creates the need for ecologically-based approaches to this problem. Biological monitoring is a fundamental part of an ecologically-based approach. Biological Monitoring of Aquatic Systems brings together contributions by authors recognized as leaders in the development and utilization of biological monitoring techniques for freshwater ecosystems. It provides a conceptual framework for the use of biological monitoring to assess the environmental health of freshwater resources. Biological monitoring is an important part of any water quality assessment program. Biological Monitoring of Aquatic Systems provides you with an understanding of water resources. It includes discussions concerning historical development, ecological basis, experimental design characteristics, case studies, and future concerns. As efforts to maintain and restore the world's water resources intensify, the need to develop accurate methods to assess the health of these resources becomes critical.
Download or read book Monitoring Ecological Condition in the Western United States written by Shabeg S. Sandhu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The monitoring of point sources by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the states, and the tribes has documented and helped reduce the levels of chemical stressors affecting our ecosystems. With the controls on point sources reducing chemical contamination, new environmental challenges associated with nonpoint sources have emerged. To adequately deal with these new problems, EPA's Office of Research and Development recognized the need to develop an overall under standing of the condition of our ecological resources, the trends in their condition, and the stressors affecting these systems on a broad scale. Toward this end, the En vironmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) was established by EPA and has been strategically developing the scientific tools and techniques to monitor and assess the status and trends of aquatic ecosystems. EMAP scientists have developed new indicators and probability-based de signs to fill data gaps in the development of regional-scale assessments of our aquatic resources, as required in the Clean Water Act. We have a scientifically de fensible approach that allows: 100 percent coverage of the aquatic resources within broad geographic areas and the formulation of reference 'conditions for es tablishing the health of these resources. The use of these indicators and designs were successfully demonstrated in the landscapes, streams, and estuaries of the mid-Atlantic states as part of the Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAlA).
Download or read book Air Pollution and Freshwater Ecosystems written by Timothy J Sullivan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2014-11-20 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A practical book for professionals who rely on water quality data for decision making, this book is based on three decades experience of three highly published water and watershed resource professionals. It focuses on the analysis of air pollution sensitive waters and the consequent effects associated with soil and water acidification, nutrient-
Download or read book ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING Volume II written by Hilary I. Inyang and published by EOLSS Publications. This book was released on 2009-10-16 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Environmental Monitoring theme is a component of Encyclopedia of Environmental and Ecological Sciences, Engineering and Technology Resources in the global Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), which is an integrated compendium of twenty one Encyclopedias. The Theme on Environmental Monitoring is largely concerned with strategies in the preparation of environmental impact assessments, as well as in many circumstances in which human activities carry a risk of harmful effects on the natural environment.. All monitoring strategies and programmes on environment have reasons and justifications which are often designed to establish the current status of an environment or to establish trends in environmental parameters. The content of the Theme provides the essential aspects and a myriad of issues that are great relevance to our world with respect to environmental monitoring. These two volumes are aimed at the following five major target audiences: University and College Students Educators, Professional Practitioners, Research Personnel and Policy Analysts, Managers, and Decision Makers and NGOs
Download or read book Bioassessment of Freshwater Ecosystems written by Robert Converse Bailey and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quantifying the effect(s) of human-induced changes on aquatic ecosystems is a fundamental objective in ecological assessment, and one that often requires the use of a reference condition. Because of the widespread degradation of many aquatic ecosystems, finding pristine or even minimally disturbed reference sites can be a challenging (read frustrating) and costly endeavour. This book gives a comprehensive description of present-day concepts and practices in working with the use of references in quantifying departures from conditions expected with no or only minimal anthropogenic effects.
Download or read book Rationale for Sampling and Interpretation of Ecological Data in the Assessment of Freshwater Ecosystems written by Billy G. Isom and published by ASTM International. This book was released on 1986 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating and Monitoring the Health of Large Scale Ecosystems written by North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Scientific Affairs Division and published by Springer. This book was released on 1995 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Good,No Highlights,No Markup,all pages are intact, Slight Shelfwear,may have the corners slightly dented, may have slight color changes/slightly damaged spine.
Download or read book Freshwater Ecology and Conservation written by Jocelyne Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical manual of freshwater ecology and conservation provides a state-of-the-art review of the approaches and techniques used to measure, monitor, and conserve freshwater ecosystems. It offers a single, comprehensive, and accessible synthesis of the vast amount of literature for freshwater ecology and conservation that is currently dispersed in manuals, toolkits, journals, handbooks, 'grey' literature, and websites. Successful conservation outcomes are ultimately built on a sound ecological framework in which every species must be assessed and understood at the individual, community, catchment and landscape level of interaction. For example, freshwater ecologists need to understand hydrochemical storages and fluxes, the physical systems influencing freshwaters at the catchment and landscape scale, and the spatial and temporal processes that maintain species assemblages and their dynamics. A thorough understanding of all these varied processes, and the techniques for studying them, is essential for the effective conservation and management of freshwater ecosystems.
Download or read book Monitoring Ecological Change written by Ian F. Spellerberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2005-08-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The state of ecosystems, biological communities and species are continuously changing as a result of both natural processes and the activities of humans. In order to detect and understand these changes, effective ecological monitoring programmes are required. This book offers an introduction to the topic and provides both a rationale for monitoring and a practical guide to the techniques available. Written in a nontechnical style, the book covers the relevance and growth of ecological monitoring, the organizations and programmes involved, the science of ecological monitoring and an assessment of methods in practice, including many examples from monitoring programmes around the world. Building on the success of the first edition, this edition has been fully revised and updated with two additional chapters covering the relevance of monitoring to the reporting of the state of the environment, and the growth of community based ecological monitoring.
Download or read book Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales written by Shabeg Sandhu and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the proceedings of a symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), held in Albany, NY, USA, in April, 1997. A research programme of the US Environmental Protection Agency, EMAP has been advancing the state of the science in ecological indicator development, statistical sampling design, landscape characterization, and other tools of environmental monitoring since the programme's inception in the late 1980s. EMAP's goal is to develop and demonstrate the science necessary to monitor status and trends in the condition of ecological resources at multiple spatial and temporal scales. These proceedings feature recent research on ecological indicators, and results from seven years of EMAP monitoring in estuarine, forest, and freshwater ecosystems.
Download or read book Effective Ecological Monitoring written by Gene Likens and published by CSIRO PUBLISHING. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist. The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, illustrating key aspects of effective monitoring with case studies and examples. It includes new sections comparing surveillance-based and question-based monitoring, analysing environmental observation networks, and provides examples of adaptive monitoring. Based on the authors’ 80 years of collective experience in running long-term research and monitoring programs, Effective Ecological Monitoring is a valuable resource for the natural resource management, ecological and environmental science and policy communities.
Download or read book Water Quality for Ecosystem and Human Health written by Geneviève M. Carr and published by Earthprint. This book was released on 2009-02-28 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Water quality for ecosystem and human health is the first report of its kind produced by UNEP's GEMS/Water Programme. Drawing on examples from around the world, the report presents assessments of current status and trends in water quality. It also provides an introduction to a diverse range of issues of concern in global water quality, and approaches to their detection, analysis, and resolution. It is difficult to obtain a global picture of water quality as different countries and regions struggle with a range of environmental pressures and the reality of limited resources available for monitoring, assessment and remediation. However, the report highlights five key messages: (1) Human-driven processes often have the greatest negative impact on the quality of water resources, even in remote environments; (2) Impaired aquatic ecosystems can lead to impaired human health and socio-economic decline; (3) There are new threats to the health of aquatic ecosystems for example, pharmaceuticals and personal care products, requiring immediate attention by regulatory authorities at local, national and global levels; (4) Successful procedures have been developed for the restoration of aquatic ecosystems including damage caused by acidification and eutrophication, and (5) Baseline monitoring data for aquatic ecosystems is a priority. Long-term monitoring is also required to track the effectiveness of policies and interventions.
Download or read book Ecological Indicators for the Assessment of the Quality of Air Water Soil and Ecosystems written by E.P.H. Best and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at a Symposium held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, October 1982
Download or read book How to Assess and Monitor Ecological Quality in Freshwaters written by Marja Ruoppa and published by Nordic Council of Ministers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
