Assessing and managing the ecological impacts of paved roads [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 388.12 |
Soggetto topico |
Roads - Environmental aspects
Highway planning Roads - Design and construction - Environmental aspects Pavements - Environmental aspects Ecological assessment (Biology) Transportation and state - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-280-28652-0
9786610286522 0-309-65631-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Review Participants""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 History and Status of the U.S. Road System""; ""3 Effects of Roads on Ecological Conditions""; ""4 Ameliorating the Effects of Roads""; ""5 Legal Context for Planning and Policy""; ""6 Planning and Assessment""; ""7 Integrating Obstacles and Opportunities""; ""8 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Biographical Information on Committee Members""
""Appendix B Spatial Scale of Road Effects on Ecological Conditions: Annotated Bibliography""""Appendix C Congressional Declaration of National Environmental Policy--National Environmental Policy Act of 1969"" |
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Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 | ||
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Assessing and managing the ecological impacts of paved roads [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 388.12 |
Soggetto topico |
Roads - Environmental aspects
Highway planning Roads - Design and construction - Environmental aspects Pavements - Environmental aspects Ecological assessment (Biology) Transportation and state - United States |
ISBN |
0-309-16483-4
1-280-28652-0 9786610286522 0-309-65631-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Review Participants""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 History and Status of the U.S. Road System""; ""3 Effects of Roads on Ecological Conditions""; ""4 Ameliorating the Effects of Roads""; ""5 Legal Context for Planning and Policy""; ""6 Planning and Assessment""; ""7 Integrating Obstacles and Opportunities""; ""8 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Biographical Information on Committee Members""
""Appendix B Spatial Scale of Road Effects on Ecological Conditions: Annotated Bibliography""""Appendix C Congressional Declaration of National Environmental Policy--National Environmental Policy Act of 1969"" |
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Assessing and managing the ecological impacts of paved roads / / Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density, Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology, Division on Earth and Life Studies, Transportation Research Board, National Research Council |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (325 p.) |
Disciplina | 388.12 |
Soggetto topico |
Roads - Environmental aspects
Highway planning Roads - Design and construction - Environmental aspects Pavements - Environmental aspects Ecological assessment (Biology) Transportation and state - United States |
ISBN |
0-309-16483-4
1-280-28652-0 9786610286522 0-309-65631-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
""Front Matter""; ""Acknowledgment of Review Participants""; ""Preface""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Contents""; ""Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 History and Status of the U.S. Road System""; ""3 Effects of Roads on Ecological Conditions""; ""4 Ameliorating the Effects of Roads""; ""5 Legal Context for Planning and Policy""; ""6 Planning and Assessment""; ""7 Integrating Obstacles and Opportunities""; ""8 Conclusions and Recommendations""; ""References""; ""Appendixes""; ""Appendix A Biographical Information on Committee Members""
""Appendix B Spatial Scale of Road Effects on Ecological Conditions: Annotated Bibliography""""Appendix C Congressional Declaration of National Environmental Policy--National Environmental Policy Act of 1969"" |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828047403321 |
Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2005 | ||
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Conservation ecology |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, Ont., : Ecological Society of America, ©1997-©2003 |
Disciplina | 333.95/16 |
Soggetto topico |
Conservation biology
Ecosystem management Ecological assessment (Biology) Applied ecology Nature conservation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910140232503321 |
Ottawa, Ont., : Ecological Society of America, ©1997-©2003 | ||
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Conservation ecology |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Ottawa, Ont., : Ecological Society of America, ©1997-©2003 |
Disciplina | 333.95/16 |
Soggetto topico |
Conservation biology
Ecosystem management Ecological assessment (Biology) Applied ecology Nature conservation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Periodicals. |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996214430103316 |
Ottawa, Ont., : Ecological Society of America, ©1997-©2003 | ||
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Conservation physiology |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oxford : , : Published on behalf of Society for Experimental Biology [by] Oxford University Press, , 2013- |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource |
Soggetto topico |
Ecological assessment (Biology)
Environmental impact analysis Nature - Effect of human beings on Microbial ecology Ecological and Environmental Phenomena Environmental Microbiology Physiological Phenomena Évaluation écologique (Biologie) Environnement - Études d'impact Homme - Influence sur la nature Écologie microbienne |
Soggetto genere / forma |
Periodical
periodicals. Periodicals. Périodiques. |
ISSN | 2051-1434 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Periodico |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910141565003321 |
Oxford : , : Published on behalf of Society for Experimental Biology [by] Oxford University Press, , 2013- | ||
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Detection of environmental DNA of bigheaded carps in samples collected from selected locations in the St. Croix River and in the Mississippi River / / by Jon J. Amberg [and four others] ; prepared in collaboration with the University of Minnesota |
Autore | Amberg Jon J (Jon James) |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Reston, Virginia : , : U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, , 2013 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (iv, 44 pages) : color illustrations |
Collana | Open-file report |
Soggetto topico |
DNA - Analysis
Fish stock identification Ecological assessment (Biology) Bighead carp - Monitoring - Mississippi River Bighead carp - Monitoring - Saint Croix River (Wis. and Minn.) |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | Detection of environmental deoxyribonucleic acid of bigheaded carps in samples collected from selected locations in the St. Croix River and in the Mississippi River |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910704644803321 |
Amberg Jon J (Jon James)
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Ecological causal assessment / / Susan B. Norton, Susan M. Cormier, Glenn W. Suter II |
Autore | Norton Susan B. <1959, > |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Taylor & Francis, 2015 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (xvi, 497 pages ) |
Disciplina | 577 |
Collana | Environmental Assessment and Management |
Soggetto topico |
Ecological assessment (Biology)
Environmental impact analysis |
Soggetto non controllato |
assessments
creek ept fox kit long relationship response stressor taxa |
ISBN |
0-429-11046-4
1-138-07393-8 1-4398-7015-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Editors; Contributors; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: What Is a Cause?; Chapter 3: How Have Causes Been Identified?; Chapter 4: Characteristics and Evidence of Causation; Chapter 5: Human Cognition and Causal Assessment; Chapter 6: Our Approach for Identifying Causes; Chapter 7: Defining the Case; Chapter 8: Listing Candidate Causes; Chapter 9: Case-Specific Observations: Assembling and Exploring Data; Chapter 10: Case-Specific Observations: Deriving Evidence; Chapter 11: Regional Observational Studies: Assembling and Exploring Data
Chapter 12: Regional Observational Studies: Deriving EvidenceChapter 13: Regional Observational Studies: : Addressing Confounding; Chapter 14: Assessment-Specific Field Study Designs and Methods; Chapter 15: Laboratory Experiments and Microcosms; Chapter 16: Mesocosm Studies; Chapter 17: Symptoms, Body Burdens, and Biomarkers; Chapter 18: Simulation Models; Chapter 19: Forming Causal Conclusions; Chapter 20: Communicating the Findings; Chapter 21: After the Causal Assessment: Using the Findings; Chapter 22: Causal Assessment in a Complex Urban Watershed-The Long Creek Case Study Chapter 23: Clear Fork Watershed Case Study: The Value of State Monitoring ProgramsChapter 24: Northern River Basins Study and the Athabasca River: The Value of Experimental Approaches in a Weight-of-Evidence Assessment; Chapter 25: Applying CADDIS to a Terrestrial Case: San Joaquin Kit Foxes on an Oil Field; Glossary; List of Abbreviations and Acronyms; References; Back Cover |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910568176103321 |
Norton Susan B. <1959, >
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Ecological challenges and conservation conundrums : essays and reflections for a changing world / / John A. Wiens |
Autore | Wiens John A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : Wiley, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.72 |
Collana | THEi Wiley ebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Ecological assessment (Biology)
Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN |
1-118-89509-6
1-118-89508-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preamble: Why this book?; Acknowledgments; Essay 1 How did I get here?; Essay 2 Found! The survivor in the swamps (2005); Essay 3 In defense of footnotes (2014); Part I Change, the challenge; Chapter 1 Conservation and change; Chapter 2 A digression on paradigms; Essay 4 The power of paradigms (2014); Essay 5 Patterns, paradigms, and preconceptions (2013); Essay 6 Fat times, lean times, and competition among predators (1993); Chapter 3 Equilibrium, stability, and change; Essay 7 From our southern correspondent(s) (2011)
Essay 8 Boom and bust: lessons from the outback (2014)Chapter 4 A digression on disturbance; Essay 9 Oil, oil, everywhere...(2010); Part II The forces of change; Chapter 5 Climate change and sea-level rise; Essay 10 Polar bears, golden toads, and conservation futures (2008); Chapter 6 Land-use change; Essay 11 Will land-use change erode our conservation gains? (2007); Essay 12 Landscape ecology: the science and the action (1999); Chapter 7 Distributional changes: invasive species; Chapter 8 Societal, cultural, and political change; Essay 13 Wildlife, people, and water: who wins? (2012) Chapter 9 Population growthChapter 10 Linkages among changes; Part III Conservation conundrums; Chapter 11 Variation and history; Essay 14 The eclipse of history? (2008); Essay 15 From our southern correspondent(s): which history? (2013); Chapter 12 A digression on baselines and targets; Essay 16 Shooting at a moving target (2011); Chapter 13 Ecological thresholds; Essay 17 Tipping points in the balance of nature (2010); Chapter 14 Ecological resilience; Chapter 15 Dealing with novelty; Essay 18 Black swans and outliers (2012); Essay 19 Moving outside the box (2009) Chapter 16 Uncertainty: a boon or a bane?Essay 20 Taking risks with the environment (2012); Essay 21 Uncertainty and the relevance of ecology (2008); Chapter 17 Prioritization and triage; Essay 22 Talking about triage in conservation (2015); Chapter 18 Protected areas: where the wild things are; Essay 23 Build it and they will come (2013); Essay 24 The dangers of black-and-white conservation (2007); Chapter 19 Ecosystem services and the value of nature; Essay 25 What's so new about ecosystem services? (2007); Part IV Doing conservation; Chapter 20 What is it we are trying to conserve? Essay 26 Be careful what you wish for (2014)Essay 27 Concluding comments: Are bird communities real? (1980); Essay 28 A metaphor meets an abstraction: the issue of ""Healthy Ecosystems"" (2015); Chapter 21 Numbers, numbers, numbers; Essay 29 Is ""monitoring"" a dirty word? (2009); Essay 30 The place of long-term studies in ornithology (1984); Essay 31 What use is small data in a big data world? (2013); Chapter 22 A digression on words; Essay 32 Word processing versus writing (1983, 2011); Chapter 23 Debates in ecology and conservation Essay 33 On skepticism and criticism in ornithology (1981) |
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Wiens John A.
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Ecological challenges and conservation conundrums : essays and reflections for a changing world / / John A. Wiens |
Autore | Wiens John A. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | West Sussex, England : , : Wiley, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 p.) |
Disciplina | 333.72 |
Collana | THEi Wiley ebooks |
Soggetto topico |
Ecological assessment (Biology)
Conservation of natural resources |
ISBN |
1-118-89509-6
1-118-89508-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preamble: Why this book?; Acknowledgments; Essay 1 How did I get here?; Essay 2 Found! The survivor in the swamps (2005); Essay 3 In defense of footnotes (2014); Part I Change, the challenge; Chapter 1 Conservation and change; Chapter 2 A digression on paradigms; Essay 4 The power of paradigms (2014); Essay 5 Patterns, paradigms, and preconceptions (2013); Essay 6 Fat times, lean times, and competition among predators (1993); Chapter 3 Equilibrium, stability, and change; Essay 7 From our southern correspondent(s) (2011)
Essay 8 Boom and bust: lessons from the outback (2014)Chapter 4 A digression on disturbance; Essay 9 Oil, oil, everywhere...(2010); Part II The forces of change; Chapter 5 Climate change and sea-level rise; Essay 10 Polar bears, golden toads, and conservation futures (2008); Chapter 6 Land-use change; Essay 11 Will land-use change erode our conservation gains? (2007); Essay 12 Landscape ecology: the science and the action (1999); Chapter 7 Distributional changes: invasive species; Chapter 8 Societal, cultural, and political change; Essay 13 Wildlife, people, and water: who wins? (2012) Chapter 9 Population growthChapter 10 Linkages among changes; Part III Conservation conundrums; Chapter 11 Variation and history; Essay 14 The eclipse of history? (2008); Essay 15 From our southern correspondent(s): which history? (2013); Chapter 12 A digression on baselines and targets; Essay 16 Shooting at a moving target (2011); Chapter 13 Ecological thresholds; Essay 17 Tipping points in the balance of nature (2010); Chapter 14 Ecological resilience; Chapter 15 Dealing with novelty; Essay 18 Black swans and outliers (2012); Essay 19 Moving outside the box (2009) Chapter 16 Uncertainty: a boon or a bane?Essay 20 Taking risks with the environment (2012); Essay 21 Uncertainty and the relevance of ecology (2008); Chapter 17 Prioritization and triage; Essay 22 Talking about triage in conservation (2015); Chapter 18 Protected areas: where the wild things are; Essay 23 Build it and they will come (2013); Essay 24 The dangers of black-and-white conservation (2007); Chapter 19 Ecosystem services and the value of nature; Essay 25 What's so new about ecosystem services? (2007); Part IV Doing conservation; Chapter 20 What is it we are trying to conserve? Essay 26 Be careful what you wish for (2014)Essay 27 Concluding comments: Are bird communities real? (1980); Essay 28 A metaphor meets an abstraction: the issue of ""Healthy Ecosystems"" (2015); Chapter 21 Numbers, numbers, numbers; Essay 29 Is ""monitoring"" a dirty word? (2009); Essay 30 The place of long-term studies in ornithology (1984); Essay 31 What use is small data in a big data world? (2013); Chapter 22 A digression on words; Essay 32 Word processing versus writing (1983, 2011); Chapter 23 Debates in ecology and conservation Essay 33 On skepticism and criticism in ornithology (1981) |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910809975503321 |
Wiens John A.
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