Detecting Ecological Impacts
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Detecting Ecological Impacts
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Author : Russell J. Schmitt
language : en
Publisher: Elsevier
Release Date : 1996-01-25
Detecting Ecological Impacts written by Russell J. Schmitt and has been published by Elsevier this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-25 with Science categories.
Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats focuses on crucial aspects of detecting local and regional impacts that result from human activities. Detection and characterization of ecological impacts require scientific approaches that can reliably separate the effects of a specific anthropogenic activity from those of other processes. This fundamental goal is both technically and operationally challenging. Detecting Ecological Impacts is devoted to the conceptual and technical underpinnings that allow for reliable estimates of ecological effects caused by human activities. An international team of scientists focuses on the development and application of scientific tools appropriate for estimating the magnitude and spatial extent of ecological impacts. The contributors also evaluate our current ability to forecast impacts. Some of the scientific, legal, and administrative constraints that impede these critical tasks also are highlighted. Coastal marine habitats are emphasized, but the lessons and insights have general application to all ecological systems.
Development Of An Environmental Impact Assessment And Decision Support System For Seawater Desalination Plants
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Author : Sabine Latteman
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2010-05-11
Development Of An Environmental Impact Assessment And Decision Support System For Seawater Desalination Plants written by Sabine Latteman and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-05-11 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Seawater desalination is a coastal-based industry. The growing number of desalination plants worldwide and the increasing size of single facilities emphasises the need for greener desalination technologies and more sustainable desalination projects. A comprehensive evaluation of potential environmental impacts of desalination plants, this book emphasizes discusses strategies for impact mitigation. The author proposes a best-available technology concept for seawater desalination technologies in combination with a methodological approach for the environmental impact assessment (EIA) of desalination projects. It outlines the scope of EIA studies, including environmental monitoring and toxicity and hydrodynamic modeling studies. The book also explores the usefulness of multi-criteria analysis as a decision support tool for EIAs and then uses them to compare different intake and pretreatment options for seawater reverse osmosis plants.
Methods For Performing Monitoring Impact And Ecological Studies On Rocky Shores
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Author : Steven Nelson Murray
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Methods For Performing Monitoring Impact And Ecological Studies On Rocky Shores written by Steven Nelson Murray and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Intertidal ecology categories.
Defining And Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact From Power Plant Impingement And Entrainment Of Aquatic Organisms
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Author : Douglas Dixon
language : en
Publisher: CRC Press
Release Date : 2005-08-12
Defining And Assessing Adverse Environmental Impact From Power Plant Impingement And Entrainment Of Aquatic Organisms written by Douglas Dixon and has been published by CRC Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-12 with Science categories.
The U.S. Clean Water Act calls for the minimization of "adverse environmental impact" at cooling water intake structures. To facilitate an exchange of information among all stakeholders in the issue, the Electric Power Research Institute organised a national symposium in 2001 to discuss the meaning of adverse environmental impact and methods for its assessment. Technical experts in federal and state resource agencies, academia, industry and non-governmental organizations attended the symposium. This is a collection of peer-reviewed papers, intended both to inform and to encourage the development of rules regarding the minimization of adverse environmental impact at cooling water intake structures.
Monitoring Ecological Impacts
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Author : Barbara J. Downes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2008-06-12
Monitoring Ecological Impacts written by Barbara J. Downes and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-12 with Nature categories.
Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect, and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. The procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic, and the statistical models needed to analyse complex data are given. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols which can be applied in any region of the world, a wide range of human impacts, and any ecosystem. In addition, real examples are used to show how the theory can be put into practice.
Atmospheric Ammonia
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Author : Mark Sutton
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-12-30
Atmospheric Ammonia written by Mark Sutton and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-12-30 with Science categories.
Anthropogenic emissions of ammonia cause a host of environmental impacts, including loss of biodiversity, soil acidification and formation of particulate matter in the atmosphere. Under the auspices of the UNECE Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution, around 80 international experts met to review the state of scientific knowledge. This book reports their analysis. It concludes that threshold levels for ammonia effects have been underestimated and sets new values, it assesses the independent evidence to verify reported reductions in regional ammonia emissions, and it reviews the uncertainties in modelling ammonia, both in "hot spots" and at the regional scale.
Monitoring Rocky Shores
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Author : Steven N. Murray
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2006-04-03
Monitoring Rocky Shores written by Steven N. Murray and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-03 with Nature categories.
“Intertidal ecologists have been struggling with how to adequately monitor the tremendous diversity and heterogeneity of rocky shores for decades. Finally three of the most experienced and established people in the field have done it. Monitoring Rocky Shores will serve as THE central reference guide for scientists intent on understanding the complexities of intertidal ecology.”—John Pearse, coauthor of Animals Without Backbones “The incredibly high taxic, morphological, ecological, as well as biotic diversity of rocky shores makes them ideal sites for ecological studies; however this same diversity also presents innumerable challenges. Monitoring Rocky Shores is long overdue in helping investigators tackle these innumerable challenges. This book provides a broad and important introduction to the habitat, the animals, the methods, and the analyses required constructing informed hypotheses and scenarios for life on rocky shores.”—David R. Lindberg, Museum of Paleontology, co-editor of Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca
Ecological Impacts Of Toxic Chemicals
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Author : Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, Paul J. van den Brink, Reinier M. Mann
language : en
Publisher: Francisco Sanchez-Bayo
Release Date : 2011-09-09
Ecological Impacts Of Toxic Chemicals written by Francisco Sánchez-Bayo, Paul J. van den Brink, Reinier M. Mann and has been published by Francisco Sanchez-Bayo this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-09-09 with Nature categories.
Ecological Impacts of Toxic Chemicals presents a comprehensive, yet readable account of the known disturbances caused by all kinds of toxic chemicals on both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. Topics cover the sources of toxicants, their fate and distribution through the planet, their impacts on specific ecosystems, and their remediation by natural systems. Each chapter is written by well-known specialists in those areas, for the general public, students, and even scientists from outside this field. The book intends to raise awareness of the dangers of chemical pollution in a world dominated by industry and globalization of resources. Because the problems are widespread and far reaching, it is hoped that confronting the facts may prompt better management practices at industrial, agricultural and all levels of management, from local to governmental, so as to reduce the negative impacts of chemical contaminants on our planet.
Real World Ecology
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Author : ShiLi Miao
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2008-11-20
Real World Ecology written by ShiLi Miao and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-20 with Science categories.
Ecological and environmental research has increased in scope and complexity in the last few decades, from simple systems with a few managed variables to complex ecosystems with many uncontrolled variables. These issues encompass problems that are inadequately addressed using the types of carefully controlled experiments that dominate past ecological research. Contemporary challenges facing ecologists include whole ecosystem responses to planned restoration activities and ecosystem modifications, as well as unplanned catastrophic events such as biological invasions, natural disasters, and global climate changes. Major perturbations implicated in large-scale ecological alterations share important characteristics that challenge traditional experimental design and statistical analyses. These include: * Lack of randomization, replication and independence * Multiple scales of spatial and temporal variability * Complex interactions and system feedbacks. In real world ecology, standard replicated designs are often neither practical nor feasible for large-scale experiments, yet ecologists continue to cling to these same standard designs and related statistical analyses. Case studies that fully elucidate the currently available techniques for conducting large-scale unreplicated analyses are lacking. Real World Ecology: Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods is the first to focus on case studies to demonstrate how ecologists can investigate complex contemporary problems using new and powerful experimental approaches. This collection of case studies showcases innovative experimental designs, analytical options, and interpretation possibilities currently available to theoretical and applied ecologists, practitioners, and biostatisticians. By illustrating how scientists have answered pressing questions about ecosystem restoration, impact and recovery, global warming, conservation, modeling, and biological invasions, this book will broaden the acceptance and application of modern approaches by scientists and encourage further methodological development.
Methods For The Study Of Marine Benthos
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Author : Anastasios Eleftheriou
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
Methods For The Study Of Marine Benthos written by Anastasios Eleftheriou and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Technology & Engineering categories.
Ecosystems of the benthic environment are a sensitive index toecological change, and as such demand long-term and effectivemonitoring. Methods for the Study of Marine Benthos providescomprehensive information on the tools and techniques available tothose working in areas where the declining health of the sea,depletion of marine resources and the biodiversity of marine lifeare major concerns. In response to the need for increasingly detailed information onbottom-living communities, this fully revised new editionoffers: Contributions from a broad range of internationally recognisedexperts New information for those compiling environmental impactstatements, pollution assessments and working with eco-systemmanagement Two separate chapters on Imaging Techniques and DivingSystems A vital tool for all marine and environmental scientists,ecologists, fisheries workers and oceanographers, libraries in alluniversities and research establishments where these subjects arestudied and taught will find this book a valuable addition to theirshelves.