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Title Ecosystem organization of a complex landscape : long-term research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany / Otto Fränzle [and others], editors
Published Berlin : Springer, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xix, 391 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series Ecological studies, 0070-8356 ; v. 202
Ecological studies ; v. 202. 0070-8356
Contents General concept of the research programme and methodology of investigations -- Ecological setting of the study area -- Ecophysiological key processes in agricultural and forest ecosystems -- Carbon and energy balances of different ecosystems and ecosystem complexes of the Bornhöved Lake District -- Weather relations at different scales -- Site-related biocoenotic dynamics -- Biocoenotic interactions between different ecotopes -- Element fluxes in atmosphere, vegetation and soil -- Transport processes between Lake Belau and its drainage basin -- Lake Belau -- Ecological gradients as causes and effects of ecosystem organization -- An indicator-based characterization of the Bornhöved key ecosystems -- Ecosystem research and sustainable land use management -- Conclusions : perspectives for integrative landscape planning, management and monitoring -- References -- Index
Summary This book presents the major findings of a 12-year ecological study of the Bornhöved Lake District, situated some 30 km south of Kiel. Historically speaking, the present research scheme, like comparable long-term ecosystem studies at Göttingen, Bayreuth, München, and Berchtesgaden, has been conceived as the core of a comprehensive ecological surveillance system for Germany (Ellenberg et al. 1978). Comprising three interrelated components, namely an ecological monitoring network, comparative ecosystem research, and an environmental specimen bank, this system is intended to promote both ecological science and planning and policy. In this connection the geo- and bioscientifically based ecosystem research aims at understanding the structure and functions of systems, the natural equilibrium and stress tolerance of singular components and the entire system against changes and disturbances from within and from outside, and the relationships between diversity, productivity, and stability. Thus, ecosystem research forms the indispensable basis for the rational analysis of the comprehensive data sets made available by ecological monitoring networks and for the adequate selection of plant, animal, and soil specimens for environmental specimen banking purposes
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-383) and index
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Subject Ecosystem management -- Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein
Environmental monitoring -- Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein
Environmental management.
environmental control.
SCIENCE -- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry -- Environmental)
NATURE -- Ecosystems & Habitats -- Wilderness.
NATURE -- Ecology.
SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Ecology.
Ecosystem management -- Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein.
Environmental monitoring -- Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein.
Biomédecine.
Sciences de la vie.
Ecosystem management
Environmental monitoring
Germany -- Schleswig-Holstein
Form Electronic book
Author Fränzle, Otto.
LC no. 2007941261
ISBN 9783540758112
3540758119
3540758100
9783540758105