By
Walter Adey, Natural History Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., USA
Karen Loveland, Emeritus Natural History Producer
Description
In its third edition, this praised book demonstrates how the living systems modeling of aquatic ecosystems for ecological, biological
and physiological research, and ecosystem restoration can produce answers to very complex ecological questions. This book further offers
an understanding developed in 25 years of living ecosystem modeling and discusses how this knowledge has produced methods of efficiently
solving many environmental problems. Public education through this methodology is the additional key to the broader ecosystem understanding
necessary to allow human society to pass through the next evolutionary bottleneck of our species. Living systems modeling as a wide spectrum
educational tool can provide a primary vehicle for that essential step.
This third editon covers the many technological and biological
developments in the eight plus years since the second edition, providing updated technological advice and describing many new example
aquarium environments.
Audience:
Living system modelers, ecologists, aquatic biologists and physiologists, teachers at all levels, restoration ecologists, ecological engineers,
environmental scientists and engineers, ecological engineers, aquaculturalists, biogeographers, global change scientists and aquarium
hobbyists.
