Ecosystem Prediction and Management

A Companion to Environmental Geography

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 419-441

  Francis, Robert A ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem individuality; Ecosystems having characteristics of linearity, organisation, and predictability; Effectiveness of prediction in ecosystem management; Equilibrium and non equilibrium ecosystem paradigms; Monoculture undesirable and uneconomic; Steady state equilibrium spatial and temporal scale; Threshold effect eutrophication in lakes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889966615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444305722.ch25     Document Type: Chapter

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