Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape : Long-Term Research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany /
edited by Otto Fränzle, Ludger Kappen, Hans-Peter Blume, Klaus Dierssen.
- xx, 392 páginas 155 ilustraciones, 5 ilustraciones en color. recurso en línea.
- Ecological Studies, 202 0070-8356 ; .
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Research Programme and Study Area -- General Concept of the Research Pogramme and Methodology of Investigations -- Ecological Setting of the Study Area -- Structure and Function of Ecosystems in a Complex Landscape -- Ecophysiological Key Processes in Agricultural and Forest Ecosystems -- Carbon and Energy Balances of Different Ecosystems and Ecosystem Complexes of the Bornhöved Lake District -- Water Relations at Different Scales -- Site-Related Biocoenotic Dynamics -- Biocoenotic Interactions between Different Ecotopes -- Element Fluxes in Atmosphere, Vegetation and Soil -- Transport Processes between Lake Belau and its Drainage Basin -- Lake Belau -- Ecological Gradients as Causes and Effects of Ecosystem Organization -- From Research to Application -- An Indicator-Based Characterization of the Bornhöved Key Ecosystems -- Ecosystem Research and Sustainable Land Use Management -- Conclusions: Perspectives for Integrative Landscape Planning, Management and Monitoring.
This volume provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhöved Lake District as a representative landscape of northern Germany. The emphasis is on the comprehensive assessment of matter and energy fluxes in and between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their biocoenotic structures and dynamics on the one hand, and on transdisciplinary landscape planning approaches on the other. In each respect the development of novel hierarchical modelling approaches at various spatial and temporal scales is fundamental to the understanding of the structure and function of systems and to integrative resource management strategies. Thus, the book is not only commendable for ecologists, but is equally useful for botanists, zoologists, geographers, landscape planners, soil scientists, agronomers, hydrologists, climatologists and other scientists interested in energy balances or the quality and quantity of waterflows and nutrient cycles, and managers looking for relevant case studies and model answers to their questions.