Overview
Provides operative tools within a quantitative approach to dealing with challenging sustainability issues
Treats various hot topics of conservation and management ecology
Based on real data from scientific literature that challenge the reader’s understanding of concepts and methods
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Species and Populations Threatened by Extinction
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Populations in Spatially Explicit Landscapes
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Sustainabilty of Biomass Harvesting and Its Management
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Parasite and Disease Ecology
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About this book
This textbook provides basic quantitative models allowing researchers and decision makers to a) assess viability of threatened populations and evaluate the success of species reintroductions, b) estimate invasion abilities of alien species, c) evaluate the persistence of metapopulations subjected to habitat destruction and fragmentation, d) analyze policies and strategies for the sustainable harvesting of biological resources, and e) assess the course of human and nonhuman diseases and the possible containment measures.
Air and water pollution, overexploitation of renewable resources (e.g. marine fish stocks and forests), massive land-use change together with climate change impact the Earth biodiversity and impair the functioning of ecosystems. Globalization increases the risk of diffusion of alien species and new pathogens.
A panoply of numerical problems mainly based on real data from the ecological literature enables the reader to practice the presented modelling tools.
presented modelling tools.Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Marino Gatto is Professor emeritus, Politecnico di Milano, Italy. His research focuses on ecological modelling, fish population dynamics and management, and disease and parasite ecology. He was President of the Italian Society of Ecology from 2003 to 2006, and is a member of Istituto Lombardo Accademia di Scienze e Lettere and Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti.
Renato Casagrandi is Professor of Ecology at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineeing, Politecnico di Milano. His research is devoted to designing and analysing dynamical models for spatiotemporal processes in ecology and epidemiology. Since 2018, he is Chair of the B.Sc. and M.Sc. Environmental Engineering programs at Politecnico di Milano.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ecosystem Conservation and Management
Book Subtitle: Models and Application
Authors: Marino Gatto, Renato Casagrandi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09480-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09479-8Published: 13 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09482-8Published: 14 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09480-4Published: 12 October 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 289
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 168 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology, Biodiversity, Epidemiology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes