[PDF] Ecological Modeling For Resource Management eBook

Author : Virginia H. Dale
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,78 MB
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387215638

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This book will serve as a readable introduction to ecological modeling for people involved in resource management and will also review models for specific applications of interest to more experienced modelers. Successful uses of ecological models as well as discussions of important issues in modeling are addressed. The authors of this volume hope to close the gap between the state of the art in ecological modeling and the state of the practice in the use of models in management decision making.

Author : Clifford S. Russell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 19,17 MB
Release : 2015-09-25
Category : Nature
ISBN : 1317327160

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This volume, originally published in 1975, grew out of Resources for the Future’s involvement as a consultant to the Marine Ecosystem Analysis programme management within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. Here, researchers look at the state of the art in aquatic ecological modelling in a resource management context. Although the aim of the research in this volume is specific, the models used can be applied in broader contexts and provide conceptual frameworks for regional residuals-environmental quality management and other ecological modelling. This title is suitable for students interested in Environmental Studies.

Author : William E. Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 28,10 MB
Release : 1997-03-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780471137863

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This book explores the theory and methods of systems analysis and computer modeling as applied to problems in ecology and natural resource management. It reflects the problems and conflicts between competing uses of limited space and the need for quantitative predictors of the outcome of various management strategies.

Author : Tanya M. Shenk
Publisher : Shearwater Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 24,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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This work covers topics in natural resource modelling to explain how they can be, have been, and should be used in making decisions about the management of natural resources. It aims to give managers and students the tools they need to assess and apply models effectively.

Author : William E. Grant
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 1444359932

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Ecological Modeling:A Commonsense Approach to Theory and Practice explores how simulation modeling and its new ecological applications can offer solutions to complex natural resource management problems. This is a practical guide for students, teachers, and professional ecologists. Examines four phases of the modeling process: conceptual model formulation, quantitative model specification, model evaluation, and model use Provides useful building blocks for constructing systems simulation models Includes a format for reporting the development and use of simulation models Offers an integrated systems perspective for students, faculty, and professionals Features helpful insights from the author, gained over 30 years of university teaching "I can strongly recommend the book as textbook for all courses in population dynamic modeling particularly when the course is planned for the second or third year of a bachelor study in ecology, environmental science or ecological engineering. It uncovers very clearly for the readers the scientific idea and thinking behind modeling and all the necessary steps in the development of models." Ecological Modeling Journal, 2009

Author : Robert G. Woodmansee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2021-03-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1108497551

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Brings scientists, policy makers, land and water managers and citizen stakeholders together to resolve natural resource and environmental problems.

Author : Robert E. Keane
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 49,30 MB
Release : 2019-08-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 100073255X

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Managing today’s lands is becoming an increasingly difficult task. Complex ecological interactions across multiple spatiotemporal scales create diverse landscape responses to management actions that are often novel, counter-intuitive and unexpected. To make matters worse, exotic invasions, human land use, and global climate change complicate this complexity and make past observational ecological studies limited in application to the future. Natural resource professionals can no longer rely on empirical data to analyze alternative actions in a world that is rapidly changing with few historical analogs. New tools are needed to synthesize the high complexity in ecosystem dynamics into useful applications for land management. Some of the best new tools available for this task are ecological and landscape simulation models. However, many land management professionals and scientists have little expertise in simulation modeling, and the costs of training these people will probably be exorbitantly high because most ecosystem and landscape models are exceptionally complicated and difficult to understand and use for local applications. This book was written to provide natural resource professionals with the rudimentary knowledge needed to properly use ecological models and then to interpret their results. It is based on the lessons learned from a career spent modeling ecological systems. It is intended as a reference for novice modelers to learn how to correctly employ ecosystem landscape models in natural resource management applications and to understand subsequent modeling results.