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 Building Living Ecosystems
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Third Edition
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.
Contents
1: Introduction
Part I: Physical Environment
2: The Envelope: Physical Parameters and Energy State
3: Substrate: The Active Role
of Rock, Mud, and Sand
4: Water Composition: Management of Salinity, Hardness, and Evaporation
5: The Input of Solar Energy: Lighting
Requirements
6: The Input of Organic Energy: Particulates and Feeding
Part II : Biochemical Environment
7: Metabolism: Respiration,
Photosynthesis, and Biological Loading
8: Organisms and Gas Exchange: Oxygen, Carbon Dioxide, pH, and Alkalinity
9: The Primary Nutrients?Nitrogen,
Phosphorus, and Silica: Limitation and Eutrophication
10: Biomineralization and Calcification: A Key to Biosphere and Ecosystem Function
11: Control of the Biochemical Environment: Filters, Bacteria, and the Algal Turf Scrubber
Part III: Biological Structure
12:
Community Structure: Biodiversity in Model Ecosystems
13: Trophic Structure: Ecosystems and the Dynamics of Food Chains
14: Primary Producers:
Plants That Grow on the Bottom
15: Herbivores: Predators of Plants and Omnivores, Predators of Plants and Animals
16: Carnivores: Predators
of Animals
17: Plankton and Planktivores: Floating Plants and Animals and Their Predators
18: Detritus and Detritivores: The Dynamics
of Muddy Bottoms
19: Symbionts and Other Feeders
Part IV: Ecological Systems in Microcosms, Mesocosms, and Aquaria
20: Models
of Coral Reef Ecosystems
21: A Subarctic/Boreal Microcosm: Test of a Biogeographic Model
22: Estuaries: Ecosystem Modeling and Restoration:
Where Fresh and Salt Waters Interact
23: Freshwater Ecosystem Models
Part V: The Environment and Ecological Engineering
24: Organisms
and Natural Products: Commercial Ecosystem Culture
25: Large Scale Water Quality Management with Solar Energy Capture
Part VI: Summary
26: Microcosms, Mesocosms, and Macrocosms: Building and Restoring Ecosystems: A Synthesis
Bibliographic & ordering Information
Hardbound, 528 pages, publication date: JAN-2007
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-370641-6
ISBN-10: 0-12-370641-6
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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USD 79.95
EUR 66.95
GBP 45.99
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Last update: 26 Aug 2008
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