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Title New models for ecosystem dynamics and restoration / edited by Richard J. Hobbs and Katharine N. Suding.

Imprint Washington : Island Press, c2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  333.73153 N42m 2009    ---  Available
Description xii, 352 p. : ill., maps ; 26 cm.
Series The science and practice of ecological restoration
Science and practice of ecological restoration.
Note "Society for Ecological Restoration International."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Models of ecosystem dynamics as frameworks for restoration ecology / Katharine N. Suding and Richard J. Hobbs -- Critical transitions and regime shifts in ecosystems : consolidating recent advances / Stephen R. Carpenter and Marten Scheffer -- Transition dynamics in succession : implications for rates, trajectories, and restoration / Lawrence R. Walker and Roger del Moral -- Inference about complex ecosystem dynamics in ecological research and restoration practice / Arne Schroder -- Thresholds in ecological and linked social-ecological systems : application to restoration / Elizabeth G. King and Steven Whisenant -- Resilience theory in models of rangeland ecology and restoration : the evolution and application of a paradigm / Brandon T. Bestelmeyer ... [et. al.] -- Long-term dynamics and rehabilitation of woody ecosystems in Dryland South Island, New Zealand / Susan Walker ... [et. al.] -- Dryland dynamics and restoration : perspectives for the use of climatic swings / Milena Holmgren -- Developing data-driven descriptive models for Californian grasslands / James W. Bartolome, Randall D. Jackson, and Barbara H. Allen-Diaz -- Management and restoration in African Savannas : interactions and feedbacks / Mahesh Sankaran and T. Michael Anderson -- Rapid internal plant-soil feedbacks lead to alternative stable states in temperate Australian grassy woodlands / Suzanne M. Prober, Ian D. Lunt, and John W. Morgan -- Revised state-and-transistion model for the restoration of woodlands in Western Australia / Rachel J. Standish, Viki A. Cramer, and Colin J. Yates -- State-and-transition model for the recovery of abandoned farmland in New Zealand / Rachel J. Standish ... [et. al.] -- Dynamics and restoration of Australian tropical and subtropical rainforests / John Kanowski, Robert M. Kooyman, and Carla P. Catterall -- Interactions between lesser snow geese and Arctic coastal vegetation leading to alternative stable states / I.Tanya Handa and Robert L. Jefferies -- Feedbacks that might sustain natural, invaded, and restored states in herbaceous wetlands / Joy B. Zedler -- Development of conceptual models for ecological regime change in temporary Australian wetlands / Lien L. Sim, Jenny A. Davis, and Jane M. Chambers -- State-and-transition models for mining restoration in Australia / Carl Grant -- Alternative stable state model for landscape-scale restoration in South Australia / Peter Cale and Nigel Willoughby -- Alternative stable states for planning and implementing restoration of production systems in Michoacan, Mexico / Roberto Lindig-Cisneros -- Synthesis : are new models for ecosystem dynamics scientifically robust and helpful in guiding restoration projects? / Richard J. Hobbs and Katharine N. Suding.
Subject Restoration ecology.
Ecological succession.
Ecosystem management.
Added Author Hobbs, R. J. (Richard J.)
Suding, Katharine N. (Katharine Nash)
Society for Ecological Restoration International.
ISBN 9781597261852 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1597261858 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9781597261845 (cloth : alk. paper)
159726184X (cloth : alk. paper)

 
    
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