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Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed by
professional ecologists, scientists, engineers, planners and
managers 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 the reader with clear and useable protocols, which can be
applied in any region of the world and to a wide range of human
impacts. In addition, real examples are used to show how the theory
can be put into practice. Although the context of this book is
flowing water environments, especially rivers and streams, the
advice for designing assessment programs can be applied to any
ecosystem.
Aquatic insects are the dominant invertebrate fauna in most
freshwater ecosystems, and figure prominently in the work of a
diverse range of researchers, students, and environmental managers.
Often employed as indicators of ecosystem health, aquatic insects
are also commonly used as model systems to test hypotheses in
ecological topics including metapopulation and metacommunity
dynamics, recruitment limitation, trophic interactions, and trophic
networks. Due to their complex life cycles, aquatic insects must
master both terrestrial and aquatic environments, crossing these
ecosystem boundaries during different stages of development and
reproduction. In this wide-ranging text, life under and on top of
the water surface are covered in unusual detail, including the
biomechanics of life in water, locomotion underwater and on surface
films, gas exchange, physico-chemical stressors, feeding, sensory
perception and communication, reproduction, egg-laying and
development, and the evolution of aquatic habits. The threatened
status of freshwaters around the world, coupled with an expanding
population of researchers and managers charged with their
well-being, signals the importance of such a book as many
individuals seek to understand how insects function in these often
challenging physical environments. Interest in freshwaters may
never have been higher with ever-increasing conflict between water
allocation for human (agricultural) use and conservation. Aquatic
Entomology is suitable for graduate students, researchers, and
managers interested in the subject from a perspective of either
basic or applied ecology. It will also be a valuable supplementary
text for courses in limnology or freshwater ecology, entomology,
and water resource management.
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.
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