Chapter 1: Introduction to Outdoor Recreation and Recreation Ecology.-Chapter 2: Recreational Walking -- Chapter 3 Mountain Marathons, Adventure Racing, and Mountain Tours -- Chapter 4 Recreational Climbing and Scrambling -- Chapter 5 Gorge Walking, Canyoneering, or Canyoning -- Chapter 6 Off-Road and All-Terrain Vehicles, Including Snowmobiling -- Chapter 7 Mountain Biking -- Chapter 8 Camping…
Chapter1: Introduction -- Chapter2: The importance of native plants and the pressures they face -- Chapter3: The importance of ecosystems -- Chapter4: Conservation of plant species -- Chapter5: Land ownership, land management and land use -- Chapter6: Restoring the future -- Chapter7: Looking ahead.This book provides a general overview of the natural landscapes and vegetation types of the U.S.,…
Introduction -- Section 1: Biodiversity and physical health -- Section 2: Biodiversity and mental wellbeing -- Section 3: Biodiversity and social wellbeing -- Section 4: Implications of the biodiversity and health relationship -- Section 5: Planning and managing urban green spaces for biodiversity and health in a changing climate.Open AccessThis open access book identifies and discusses biodi…
1. Introduction -- 2. Starting points for creating ecological networks -- 3. Methodological base for development of the territorial system of ecological stability -- 4. Method and procedures of designing the territorial system of ecological stability -- 5. Conclusion -- 6. Summary -- 7. References -- 8. Case study: Evaluation of linear formations of non-forest woody vegetation (biocorridors) fo…
The Traditional Approach -- General Principles -- Scoping -- Baseline Conditions -- Alternatives -- Impact Assessment -- Writing the Impact Statement -- The Modern Approach -- Moving to the New Paradigm -- to Fuzzy Sets and Logic -- Environmental Conditions -- Impact Inference and Assessment -- Multi-Objective, Multi-Criteria Decision-Making -- Application -- Scoping -- Baseline Environment -- …
General description of partly meromictic hypertrophic Lake Verevi, its ecological status, changes during the past eight decades, and restoration problems -- Water and nutrient mass balance of the partly meromictic temperate Lake Verevi -- Distribution of sediment phosphorus fractions in hypertrophic strongly stratified Lake Verevi -- Optical properties and light climate in Lake Verevi -- Sedime…
Harmful Cyanobacteria: From mass mortalities to management measures -- Molecular Biology Of Cyanobacterial Toxins: Genetic basis of microcystin production -- Dynamics Of Cyanobacterial Toxins: Sources of variability in microcystin concentrations -- Nutrient Limitation Of Freshwater Cyanobacteria: Tools to monitor phosphorus limitation at the individual level -- Nutrient Limitation Of Marine Cya…
Forest Landscape Restoration in Context -- Overview of Forest Restoration Strategies and Terms -- Impact of Forest Loss and Degradation on Biodiversity -- The Impacts of Degradation and Forest Loss on Human Well-Being and Its Social and Political Relevance for Restoration -- Restoring Forest Landscapes in the Face of Climate Change -- Restoration as a Strategy to Contribute to Ecoregion Visions…
Challenges and Conceptual Approaches -- Ecosystem Function in Heterogeneous Landscapes -- Causes and Consequences of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystem Function -- The Template: Patterns and Processes of Spatial Variation -- Thoughts on the Generation and Importance of Spatial Heterogeneity in Ecosystems and Landscapes -- Reciprocal Cause and Effect Between Environmental Heterogeneity and Trans…
Fish community assemblages -- Patterning riverine fish assemblages using an unsupervised neural network -- Predicting fish assemblages in France and evaluating the influence of their environmental variables -- Fish diversity conservation and river restoration in southwest France: a review -- Modelling of freshwater fish and macro-crustacean assemblages for biological assessment in New Zealand -…