Enclosed Experimental Ecosystems and Scale : Tools for Understanding and Managing Coastal Ecosystems /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2009.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2009. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction and Background: Coastal ecosystems, management, and research
- Concepts of scale in ecology
- Mesocosms and scaling patterns
- Using mesocosms to study the effects of scale
- Designing Experimental Ecosystem Studies: General principles
- Temporal and spatial scaling
- Mixing and flow
- Materials exchange
- Light
- Walls
- Temperature
- Physical and biological complexity
- Aquatic grasses
- Marshes
- Sediments
- Chemistry
- Tools for Design and Analysis of Experiments: The world is variable
- Dimensional analysis
- Modeling tools
- Applications: Benthic organisms
- Nutrient enrichment and trophic efficiency
- Aquatic grasses, nutrients, and suspended sediments
- Index.