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Book/Printed Material The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

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Title

  • The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks

Summary

  • Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance. It will mostly be used by technical specialists with a responsibility for biodiversity monitoring to establish and refine their systems. It is written at a technical level, but one that is not discipline-bound: it should be intelligible to anyone in the broad field with a tertiary education.

Names

  • Scholes, Robert J. editor.
  • Walters, Michele. editor.

Created / Published

  • Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.

Contents

  • 1. The Biodiversity Data Impediment to a Sustainable World (Working in a Networked World) -- 2. Essential Biodiversity Variables -- 3. Stratification and Terrestrial Ecosystem Observations -- 4. Ecosystem Services -- 5. Species Observations -- 6. Monitoring Changes in Genetic Diversity -- 7. Marine and Coastal Systems -- 8. Biodiversity Observations for Freshwater Ecosystems -- 9. Remote Sensing for Biodiversity -- 10. Involving Citizen Scientists in Biodiversity Observation -- 11. Biodiversity Modelling -- 12. Cyber-Architecture -- 13. Using Data for Decision-Making: From Observations To Indicators and Other Policy Tools -- 14. Capacity Building in Biodiversity Monitoring - Case Studies.

Headings

  • -  Applied ecology
  • -  Biodiversity
  • -  Community psychology
  • -  Conservation biology
  • -  Ecology
  • -  Ecosystems
  • -  Environmental psychology
  • -  Applied Ecology
  • -  Community and Environmental Psychology
  • -  Conservation Biology/Ecology

Notes

  • -  Description based on publisher-supplied MARC data.
  • -  Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0) (SpringerNature-43708)
  • -  Biomedical and Life Sciences (SpringerNature-11642)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (XII, 326 pages 34 illustrations, 27 illustrations in color.)

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2019741044

Rights Advisory

Access Advisory

  • Unrestricted online access
  • Open Access

Online Format

  • image
  • epub

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Chicago citation style:

Scholes, Robert J. Editor, and Michele. Editor Walters. The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer, 2017. Image. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019741044/.

APA citation style:

Scholes, R. J. E. & Walters, M. E. (2017) The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer. [Image] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2019741044/.

MLA citation style:

Scholes, Robert J. Editor, and Michele. Editor Walters. The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks. Cham: Springer International Publishing: Imprint: Springer, 2017. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2019741044/>.