Biogeography ; Ecology ; Ecosystem ; Forest ; Habitat ; Photosynthesis ; Tree species ; Tropical rain forest
The A. reviews the mainstream ecological literature from 1994 to 1995 to gauge the importance of ecophysiological studies in understanding the ecology of tropical rain forests.
This book is about the making of plans and the taking of decisions, with town and country planning as its central field. The central question adressed is the role of ecology in planning, a role that is accepted but by no means undisputed
. The Ecological Conditions Strategy, which is the pivot of the book, provides an answer to this central question in offering a set of motives and means to be used as a toolkit by all actors involved in the planning process. -(AGD)
The ecology and biogeography of Nothofagus forests
Australia ; Biogeography ; Chile ; Ecology ; New Caledonia ; New Zealand ; Pacific Region ; Papua New Guinea ; Phytogeography ; Tree
Excellent treatment of distribution, history, and ecology of the tree genus Nothofagus with the collaboration of more than 20 specialists. This genus occurs in New Zealand, Australia, New Guinea, New Caledonia, Chile and Argentina and as fossils
Afforestation ; China ; Deforestation ; Ecology ; Forest soil ; Land use ; Mountain ; Pastureland ; Qinghai ; Resource management ; Slope gradient ; Soil ; Tibet
The southeast Qinghai-Xizang (Tibetan) Plateau is a physical region with optimum hydrothermal conditions, alpine soils and most types of Chinese forest soils. At present, partial soil resources are being damaged and the mountain ecology also tends
and improvement and stabilization of mountain ecology in this region.
C 14 dating ; Climatic variation ; Forecast ; Global change ; Holocene ; Mammal ; Palaeo-ecology ; Palaeontology ; Quaternary ; United States of America ; Wyoming
An exceptionally rich paleontological site containing thousands of mammalian fossils and well-dated with 18 radiocarbon samples provides evidence of late-Holocene ecological response to climatic change in northern Yellostone National Park, Wyoming
. These data show that mammalian ecological sensitivity to climatic change over this intermediate time scale holds promise for predictions about the impacts of future global warming.
Deprived people or deprived places? Exploring the ecological fallacy in studies of deprivation with the Samples of Anonymised Records
The unit of analysis in deprivation studies are local-government wards or districts. This type of approach may be subject to ecological fallacy. Although some studies have been besed on purpose-designed individual-level survey data, these often lack
they might make to the management of forested landscapes in the UK. It is concluded that there is a pressing need for further research into the relationship between landscape pattern and ecological process.
Applied ecology ; Geomorphometry ; North Carolina ; Pedestrians ; Soil erosion ; United States of America ; University campus ; Urban area ; Urban ecology
structure of ecological-economic systems requires a pro-ecological transformation. A necessary condition for such a transformation is the discontinuity of the functions of demand, production, saving, and regeneration of the natural environment. Synergetics