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1005695
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b760065
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Ecology research progress /\ Sebastián I. Muñoz, editor.
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New York :: Nova Science Publishers,, ©2007.
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1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) :: illustrations (some color), map
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1606925601
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: 9781606925607
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1600218075
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9781600218071
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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""ECOLOGY RESEARCH PROGRESS""; ""NOTICE TO THE READER""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""NEW DIRECTIONS IN PALAEOANTHROPOLOGY""; ""REFERENCES""; ""ECOLOGY FOR MANAGEMENT:PATTERN-BASED POLICY""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""I. Natural Patterns are Integrative""; ""II. Consonance between Management Question and Pattern""; ""III. Avoiding the Pathological is Paramount""; ""A Single-species Example""; ""An Ecosystem Example""; ""DISCUSSION""; ""SUMMARY""; ""ACKNOWLEDGMENTS""; ""REFERENCES""
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""2. ATMOSPHERIC N DEPOSITION""""2.1. Emissions of NOx and NH3""; ""2.2. Transformations of N Compounds in the Atmosphere""; ""2.3. Atmospheric Deposition of N""; ""3. NITROGEN CYCLING AND ITS MASS BALANCE""; ""3.1. Nitrogen Transformations in the Soil""; ""3.2. The Mass Balance of N""; ""4. EFFECTS OF ATMOSPHERIC N DEPOSITIONON FOREST ECOSYSTEMS""; ""4.1. Loss of Ca and Other Base Cations""; ""4.2. Acidification""; ""4.3. N Saturation""; ""4.4. Leaching Losses of Ammonium and Nitrate""; ""4.5. Aluminum Toxicity""; ""4.6. The Health of Forests and Trees""
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""2.6. Wide Array of Feeding Strategies""""2.7. Range of Host-specificity""; ""2.8. Ease of Sampling""; ""2.9. Sensitivity to Disturbance""; ""3. SAMPLING PROTOCOLS AND CURATION""; ""3.1. Understorey""; ""3.2. Canopy and Overstorey""; ""3.3. Forest Floor""; ""3.4. Curation and Storage""; ""4. TEMPORAL CHANGES IN POPULATIONS""; ""Case Study 1: Temporal Fluctuations of Hemiptera in a Temperate Forest ofthe Southern Hemisphere""; ""5. RESPONSE TO DISTURBANCE""; ""Case Study 2: Restoration of Forest Hemipteran Assemblages FollowingBauxite Mining""
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""5. CRITICAL LOADS OF ATMOSPHERIC N DEPOSITION""""5.1. The Critical Load Concept""; ""5.2. Indicators and their Thresholds of Acidification for Forest Ecosystems""; ""6. CONCLUSIONS""; ""7. REFERENCES""; ""USING BUGS (HEMIPTERA) AS ECOLOGICALAND ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATORSIN FOREST ECOSYSTEMS""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. INTRODUCTION""; ""2. THE POTENTIAL OF HEMIPTERA AS INDICATORS""; ""2.1. Large Contribution to Global Biodiversity""; ""2.2. Ubiquitous Distribution""; ""2.3. High Abundance in Forest Ecosystems""; ""2.4. Utilize all Levels of Forest Strata""; ""2.5. High Functional Importance""
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""Responses of microbial populationsand processes to pulses of precipitationin semiarid forest ecosystems""""abstract""; ""introduction""; ""distribution and abundance of soil biota""; ""soil respiration""; ""carbon and nitrogen dynamics""; ""decomposition""; ""climate change and invasive species""; ""effects of elevated co2""; ""effects of elevated temperatures""; ""effects of changing precipitation regimes""; ""effects of invasive species""; ""conclusions""; ""references""; ""the role of atmospheric n deposition insoil acidification in forest ecosystems""; ""abstract""; ""1. introduction""
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Ecology-- Research.
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Ecology-- Research.
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NATURE-- Ecology.
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NATURE-- Ecosystems Habitats-- Wilderness.
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Ökologie
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SCIENCE-- Environmental Science (see also Chemistry-- Environmental)
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SCIENCE-- Life Sciences-- Ecology.
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Umweltforschung
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| Dewey Classification
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577
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QH541.2.E255 2007eb
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| Added Entry
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Muñoz, Sebastián I.
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