Assessing recovery following environmental accidents: Environmental variation, ecological assumptions, and strategies

Article Abstract:

Examples from studies conducted following the Exxon Valdez oil spill to illustrate several approaches of assessing their sensitivity to the form of equilibrium one assumes is described. Understanding the underlying assumptions and their relation to the approach one uses must be part of assessing the recovery of biological resources from an environmental accident.

Control, Environmental remediation, Environmental degradation

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Ecological impacts and mitigation strategies for rural land management

Article Abstract:

The way in which improved understanding of ecological processes can facilitate progressive and more enlightened rural land management to avoid or mitigate undesirable consequences is discussed. Mitigation strategies are presented with respect to management of initial ecological conditions of the changes themselves and of the altered system.

Environmental aspects, Land management

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Ecological impact of historical land-use patterns in the Great Plains: A methodological assessment

Article Abstract:

A method for using historical county-level agricultural land-use data to drive an ecosystem model is demonstrated. The sensitivity of the estimates of county-level ecosystem properties when using different levels of detail for the land-use histories is discussed.

Science & research, Research, Ecological research, Agricultural ecosystems, Agroecosystems

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