River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal

River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion

As the vast expanses of natural forests and the great populations of salmonids are harvested to support a rapidly expanding human population, the need to understand streams as ecological systems and to manage them effectively becomes increasingly urgent. The unfortunate legacy of such natural resource exploitation is well documented. For several decades the Pacific coastal ecoregion of North America has served as a natural laboratory for scientific and managerial advancements in stream ecology, and much has been learned about how to better integrate ecological processes and characteristics with a human-dominated environment. These inÂ sightful but hard-learned ecological and social lessons are the subject of this book. Integrating land and rivers as interactive components of ecosystems and watersheds has provided the ecological sciences with imporÂ tant theoretical foundations. Even though scientific disciplines have begun to integrate land-based processes with streams and rivers, the institutions and processes charged with managing these systems have not done so successfully. As a result, many of the watersheds of the Pacific coastal ecoregion no longer support natural settings for environmental processes or the valuable natural resources those processes create. An important role for scientists, educators, and decision makers is to make the integration between ecology and conÂ sumptive uses more widely understood, as well as useful for effective management.
Country USA
Brand Springer
Manufacturer Springer
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber 3657958
ReleaseDate 1998-01-01
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780387952468

River Ecology and Management: Lessons from the Pacific Coastal Ecoregion

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Country	USA
Brand	Springer
Manufacturer	Springer
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	3657958
ReleaseDate	1998-01-01
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780387952468