By Ian F. Spellerberg
Ian Spellerberg offers a pragmatic advent to how alterations in residing groups are measured and monitored. After describing the relevance and progress of ecological tracking and the courses and corporations concerned, this booklet provides the technological know-how of ecological tracking in appreciate to spatial scales, temporal scales, symptoms and indices. The later a part of the e-book presents an evaluation of tools and tracking in perform, together with many foreign case-study examples. First variation Hb (1991): 0-521-36662-3 First version Pb (1991): 0-521-42407-0
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