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_d199228
020 _a9780080454054
040 _cDepartment of Botany
245 _aEncyclopedia of ecology/
_cedited by Sven Erik Jorgensen, Brian D. Fath
260 _aAmsterdam:
_bElsevier,
_c2008.
300 _aOnline resource
505 _aVol. 1. Abiotic and Biotic Diversity in the Biosphere -- Abundance -- Abundance Biomass Comparison Method -- Acclimation -- Acidification -- Acute and Chronic Toxicity -- Adaptation -- Adaptive Agents -- Adaptive Cycle -- Adaptive Management and Integrative Assessments -- Adsorption -- Age Structure and Population Dynamics -- Age-Class Models -- Agriculture -- Agriculture Models -- Agriculture Systems -- Agroforestry -- Air Quality Modeling -- Allee Effects -- Allometric Principles -- Allopatry -- Alpine Ecosystems and the High-Elevation Treeline -- Alpine Forest -- Altruism -- Amensalism -- Ammonification -- Animal Defense Strategies -- Animal Home Ranges -- Animal Physiology -- Animal Prey Defenses -- Antagonistic and Synergistic Effects of Antifouling Chemicals in Mixture -- Anthropospheric and Anthropogenic Impact on the Biosphere -- Antibiotics in Aquatic and Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Antipredation Behavior -- Application of Ecological Informatics -- Applied Ecology -- Aquatic Organisms -- Artificial Neural Networks -- Artificial Neural Networks: Temporal Networks -- Ascendency -- Assimilative Capacity -- Association -- Astrobiology -- Atmospheric Deposition -- Autecology -- Autocatalysis -- Autotrophs -- Average Taxonomic Diversity and Distinctness -- Bayesian Networks -- Behavioral and Ecological Genetics -- Benthic Response Index -- Benzene -- Berger-Parker Index -- Bifurcation -- Bioaccumulation -- Bioavailability -- Biodegradability -- Biodegradation -- Biodiversity -- Biogeochemical Approaches to Environmental Risk Assessment -- Biogeochemical Models -- Biogeocoenosis as an Elementary Unit of Biogeochemical Work in the Biosphere -- Biological Control Models -- Biological Integrity -- Biological Nitrogen Fixation -- Biological Rhythms -- Biological Wastewater Treatment Systems -- Biomagnification -- Biomass -- Biomass, Gross Production, and Net Production -- Biophilia -- Biosphere: Vernadsky's Concept -- Biotopes -- Body Residues -- Body Size, Energetics, and Evolution -- Body-Size Patterns -- Boltzmann Learning -- Boreal Forest -- Botanical Gardens -- Buffer Zones -- Calcium Cycle -- Cannibalism -- Carbon Cycle -- Carrying Capacity -- Catastrophe Theory -- Caves -- Cellular Automata -- Chaos -- Chaparral -- Chemical Communication -- Classical and Augmentative Biological Control -- Classification and Regression Trees -- Climate Change 1: Short-Term Dynamics -- Climate Change 2: Long-Term Dynamics -- Climate Change 3: History and Current State -- Climate Change Models -- Clines -- Coastal and Estuarine Environments -- Coastal Zone Management -- Coastal Zone Restoration -- Coevolution -- Coevolution of the Biosphere and Climate -- Coevolutionary Research -- Coexistence -- Cognition and Behavioral Ecology -- Colonization -- Commensalisms -- Communication -- Community -- Competition and Behavior -- Competition and Coexistence in Model Populations -- Competition and Competition Models -- Composting and Formation of Humic Substances -- Computer Languages -- Conceptual Diagrams and Flow Diagrams -- Connectance and Connectivity -- Conservation Biological Control and Biopesticides in Agricultural -- Constructed Wetlands, Subsurface Flow -- Constructed Wetlands, Surface Flow -- Cooperation -- Copper -- Coral Reefs -- Crude Oil, Oil, Gasoline and Petrol -- Cybernetics -- Cycling and Cycling Indices. Vol. 2. Data Mining -- Death -- Decomposition and Mineralization -- Defense Strategies of Marine and Aquatic Organisms -- Deforestation -- Demography -- Denitrification -- Desert Streams -- Deserts -- Design Principles -- Detritus -- Development Capacity -- Dioxin -- Dispersal-Migration -- Dominance -- Dominance and Its Evolution -- Dormancy -- Dose-Response -- Driver-Pressure-State-Impact-Response -- Dunes -- Eco-Exergy as an Ecosystem Health Indicator -- Eco-Exergy to Emergy Flow Ratio -- Ecological Catastrophe -- Ecological Complexity -- Ecological Economics -- Ecological Economics -- Ecological Effects of Acidic Deposition -- Ecological Efficiency -- Ecological Engineering: Overview -- Ecological Feminism -- Ecological Footprint -- Ecological Health Indicators -- Ecological Informatics: Overview -- Ecological Models, Optimization -- Ecological Network Analysis, Ascendency -- Ecological Network Analysis, Energy Analysis -- Ecological Network Analysis, Environ Analysis -- Ecological Niche -- Ecological Risk Assessment -- Ecological Stoichiometry: Overview -- Ecological Systems Thinking -- Ecophysiology -- Ecosystem Ecology -- Ecosystem Health Indicators -- Ecosystem Patterns and Processes -- Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystems -- Ecotoxicological Model of Populations, Ecosystems, and Landscapes -- Ecotoxicology Nomenclature: LC, LD, LOC, LOEC, MAC -- Ecotoxicology: The Focal Topics -- Ecotoxicology: The History and Present Directions -- Edaphic Factor -- Edge Effect -- Emergent Properties -- Emergy -- Emergy and Network Analysis -- Empirical Models -- Endangered Species -- Endemism -- Endocrine Disruptors -- Endocrine Disruptors: Effect in Wildlife and Laboratory Animals -- Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals: Overview -- Endotherm -- Energy Balance -- Energy Flows in the Biosphere -- Entropy -- Entropy and Entropy Flows in the Biosphere -- Environmental and Biospheric Impacts of Nuclear War -- Environmental Impact Assessment and Application -- Part 1 -- Environmental Impact Assessment and Application -- Part 2 -- Environmental Impact of Sludge Treatment and Recycling in Reed Bed Systems -- Environmental Protection and Ecology -- Environmental Security -- Environmental Space -- Environmental Stress and Evolutionary Change -- Environmental Tolerance -- Enzymatic Processes -- Epidemiological Studies of Reproductive Effects in Humans -- Epifauna and Epiflora -- Equilibrium Concept in Phytoplankton Communities -- Erosion -- Estuaries -- Estuarine Ecohydrology -- Estuary Restoration -- Eukaryotes, Origin of -- Evapotranspiration -- Evolution of Defense Strategies -- Evolution of Oceans -- Evolution of 'Prey-Predator' Systems -- Evolutionary Algorithms -- Evolutionary and Biochemical Aspects -- Evolutionary Ecology: Overview -- Excretion -- Exergy -- Exergy Destruction as an Ecological Indicator -- Exploitation -- Exposure and Exposure Assessment -- Fecundity -- Feldmann Index -- Fermentation -- Fire -- Fish Growth -- Fisheries Management -- Fishery Models -- Fishes as Indicators of Estuarine Health and Estuarine Importance -- Fitness -- Fitness Landscapes -- Floodplains -- Food Chains and Food Webs -- Food Specialization -- Food-Web Bioaccumulation Models -- Forest Management -- Forest Models -- Forest Plantations -- Forestry Management -- Freshwater Lakes -- Freshwater Marshes -- Fundamental Laws in Ecology -- Fungal Defense Strategies -- Fungi and Their Role in the Biosphere -- Fuzzy Models. Vol. 3. Gaia Hypothesis -- Gause's Competitive Exclusion Principle -- Generation Time -- Global Change Impacts on the Biosphere -- Global Warming Potential and the Net Carbon Balance -- Goal Functions and Orientors -- Grassland Models -- Grazing -- Grazing Models -- Greenhouses, Microcosms, and Mesocosms -- Growth Constraints: Michaelis-Menten Equation and Liebig's Law -- Growth Models -- Habitat -- Habitat Selection and Habitat Suitability Preferences -- Halogenated Hydrocarbons -- Hardy-Weinberg Equilibrium -- Herbivore-Predator Cycles* -- Hierarchy Theory in Ecology -- Hill's Postulates -- History of Ecology -- Homeostasis -- Homeotherms -- Hopfield Network -- Human Ecology: Overview -- Human Population Growth -- Hunting -- Hydrodynamic Models -- Hydrosphere -- Hysteresis -- Impoundments -- Imprinting -- Indirect Effects in Ecology -- Individual-Based Models -- Industrial Ecology -- Information and Information Flows in the Biosphere -- Insect Pest Models and Insecticide Application -- Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis -- Internet -- Intertidal Zonation -- Invasive Plants -- Invasive Species -- Iron Cycle -- Irrigation in Agriculture -- Island Biogeography -- Isolation -- k-Dominance Curves -- Kin Selection -- Lagoons -- Lake Models -- Lake Restoration -- Lake Restoration Methods -- Landfills -- Landscape Ecology -- Landscape Modeling -- Landscape Planning -- Land-Use Modeling -- Lead -- Leaf Area Index Models -- Leaf Area Index -- Learning -- Life Forms, Plants -- Life-Cycle Assessment -- Life-History Patterns -- Light Extinction -- Limiting Factors and Liebig's Principle -- Limits to Growth -- Macroevolution -- Mangrove Wetlands -- Margalef's Index -- Mariculture Waste Management -- Marine Models -- Mass Cultivation of Freshwater Microalgae -- Mass Production of Marine Macroalgae -- Material and Metal Ecology -- Mathematical Ecology -- Mating Systems -- Matrix Models -- Matter and Matter Flows in the Biosphere -- Maximum Sustainable Yield -- Mediterranean -- Mesocosm Management -- Metacommunities -- Metapopulation Models -- Methane in the Atmosphere -- Microbial Communities -- Microbial Cycles -- Marine and Aquatic Defense Strategies -- Microbial Ecological Processes: Aerobic/Anaerobic -- Microbial Ecology -- Microbial Models -- Microclimate -- Microcosms -- Mine Area Remediation -- Model Development and Analysis -- Model Types: Overview -- Modules in Modeling -- Monitoring, Observations, and Remote Sensing -- Global Dimensions -- Monocultures versus Polycultures -- Mortality -- Multilayer Perceptron -- Multitrophic Integration for Sustainable Marine Aquaculture -- Mutagenesis -- Mutualism -- Natural Wetlands -- Neutral Theory -- Nitrification -- Nitrogen -- Nitrogen Cycle -- Noosphere -- Numerical Methods for Distributed Models -- Numerical Methods for Local Models -- Ocean Currents and Their Role in the Biosphere -- Optimal Foraging -- Optimal Foraging Theory -- Optimal Reproductive Tactics -- Ordination -- Organic Farming -- Organismal Ecophysiology -- Orientation, Navigation, and Searching -- Oxygen Cycle -- Ozone Layer. Vol. 4. Paleoecology -- Panarchy -- Parameters -- Parasites -- Parasitism -- Participatory Modeling -- Peatlands -- Pedosphere -- Pelagic Predators -- Persistent Organic Pollutants -- Phenols -- Phenomenon of Life: General Aspects -- Phenotypic Plasticity -- Pheromones -- Philosophy of Ecology: Overview -- Phosphorus Cycle -- Photolysis -- Phthalates -- Physical Transport Processes in Ecology: Advection, Diffusion, and Dispersion -- Physiological Ecology -- Phytoremediation -- Phytosociology -- Pioneer Species -- Plant Competition -- Plant Defense -- Plant Defense Strategies -- Plant Demography -- Plant Ecology -- Plant Growth Models -- Plant Physiology -- Plutonium -- Poikilotherms -- Polar Terrestrial Ecology -- Pollination -- Pollution Indices -- Polychaetes/Amphipode Index -- Polychlorinated Biphenyls -- Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons -- Population and Community Interactions -- Population Viability Analysis -- Populations: r- and K-Selection -- Precaution and Ecological Risk -- Precipitation Pattern -- Predation -- Prey-Predator Models -- Principal Components Analysis -- Radiation Balance and Solar Radiation Spectrum -- Radiation Ecology -- Radioactivity -- Radionuclides: Their Biogeochemical Cycles and the Impacts on the Biosphere -- Reaeration -- Recruitment -- Remote Sensing -- Reproductive Toxicity -- Resilience -- Resistance and Buffer Capacity -- Respiration -- Retrospective Analysis -- Rhizosphere Ecology -- Riparian Wetlands -- Riparian Zone Management and Restoration -- Risk Management Safety Factor -- River Models -- Rivers and Streams: Ecosystem Dynamics and Integrating Paradigms -- Rivers and Streams: Physical Setting and Adapted Biota -- Rocky Intertidal Zone -- r-Strategist/K-Strategists -- Saline and Soda Lakes -- Salinity -- Salt Marshes -- Saprobic System -- Savanna -- Scale -- Scavengers -- Schrödinger's Ratio -- Seasonality -- Sediment Retention and Release -- Sediments: Setting, Transport, Mineralization, and Modeling -- Seed Dispersal -- Self-Organization -- Self-Organizing Map -- Semiotic Ecology -- Sensitivity and Uncertainty -- Sensitivity, Calibration, Validation, Verification -- Sewage Sludge Technologies -- Sex Ratio -- Shannon-Wiener Index -- Simpson Index -- Simulated Annealing -- Social Behavior -- Socioecological Systems -- Software -- Soil Ecology -- Soil Erosion by Water -- Soil Formation -- Soil Movement by Tillage and Other Agricultural Activities -- Spatial Distribution -- Spatial Distribution Models -- Spatial Models and Geographic Information Systems -- Spatial Subsidy -- Specific Exergy as Ecosystem Health Indicator -- Stability -- Stability versus Complexity -- Statistical Methods -- Statistical Prediction -- Steppes and Prairies -- Stream Management -- Stream Restoration -- Structural Dynamic Models -- Structure and History of Life -- Succession -- Sulfur Cycle -- Support Vector Machines -- Suspension Feeders -- Sustainable Development -- Swamps -- Sympatry -- Synecology -- Synthetic Polymers -- System Omnivory Index -- Systems Ecology. Vol. 5. Taxis -- Technology for Sustainability -- Temperate Forest -- Temperature Patterns -- Temperature Regulation -- Temporary Waters -- Teratogenesis -- Terrestrial Arthropods -- The Significance of O2 for Biology -- Thermoregulation in Animals -- Tolerance Range -- Trace Elements -- Tragedy of the Ecological Commons -- Transport in Porous Media -- Transport over Membranes -- Tree Growth -- Trophic Classification for Lakes -- Trophic Index and Efficiency -- Trophic Structure -- Tropical Ecology -- Tropical Rainforest -- Tropical Seasonal Forest -- Tundra -- Turnover Time -- Units of Selection -- Upwelling Ecosystems -- Uranium -- Urban Systems -- Urbanization as a Global Ecological Process -- Veterinary Medicines -- Visualization and Interaction Design for Ecosystem Modeling -- Vitalism versus Physical-Chemical Explanations -- Volatalization -- Wastewater Treatment Models -- Water Availability -- Water Cycle -- Water Cycle Management -- Watershed Management -- Watershed Models -- Wavelet Network -- Waves as an Ecological Process -- Weathering -- Weed Control Models -- Wetland Models -- Wildlife Ecology -- Wind Effects -- Wind Shelterbelts -- Wireless Sensor Networks Enabling Ecoinformatics -- Xenobiotic (Pesticides, PCB, Dioxins) Cycles -- Appendix -- Useful Tables of Ecological Properties.
650 _aEnvironmental Science
700 _aJorgensen, Sven Erik, ed.
700 _aFath, Brian D., ed.
856 _uhttps://www.elsevier.com/books/encycl%20opedia-of-ecology/jorgensen/978-0-444-%2052033-3
942 _cEBK