Title: Modelling community structure in freshwater ecosystems
Description: "The book presents approaches and methodologies for predicting the structure and diversity of key aquatic communities (namely diatoms, benthic macroinvertebrates and fish), under natural conditions and under man-made disturbance. Such an approach will make it possible to: 1) set up procedures for robust and sensitive ecosystem evaluation, based on the prediction of the expected community structure; 2) model community structure in disturbed ecosystems, taking into account all the relevant ecological variables; 3) test ecosystem sensitivity to natural and anthropic disturbance; and 4) explore specific actions to be taken for the restoration of ecosystem integrity"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Water, Management, Freshwater ecology, Écologie d'eau douce, Ressources en eau, Aménagement intégré, Ecosystem management, Environmental sciences, Biology, Data processing, Applied Ecology, Endangered ecosystems, Ecology, Environmental toxicology, Environment, Ecotoxicology, Ecosystems, Geoecology/Natural Processes, Math. Appl. in Environmental Science, Computer Appl. in Life Sciences