Biotic Indicators for Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture (Βιοτικοί δείκτες για τη βιοποικιλότητα και την αειφορική γεωργία - έκδοση στα αγγλικά)
Biotic Indicators for Biodiversity and Sustainable Agriculture
Συγγραφέας: W. Buchs
ISBN: 9780444515513
Σελίδες: 560
Σχήμα: 21 Χ 25
Εξώφυλλο: Σκληρό
Έτος έκδοσης: 2003
Description
This volume highlights aspects and approaches to questions on the development and findings of biotic indicator (systems), considering the complex problems of conversion into practice. Biotic indication in relation to sustainable land use and biodiversity is discussed from many angles.
Covered in this volume are the following topics:
• Political requirements and statements on biotic agri-environmental indicators;
• Requirements regarding agri-environmental indicators from a scientific as well as an applied point of view;
• Scientific reviews and critical discussions of ";state of the art"; knowledge regarding several kinds of agri-environmental indicators for biodiversity and/or sustainable agriculture;
• Original experiments on certain aspects regarding indication of biodiversity in agroecosystems;
• Practical experience with the application and suitability of agri-environmental indicators (as far as they are already established);
• Conceptions and models to show the economic effects and possibilities of practical application of such indicators.
Table of Contents
Landscape indicators from ecological area sampling in Germany (R. Hoffmann-Kroll, D. Schäfer, S. Seibel). Operationalisation of a landscape-oriented indicator (E. Osinski). Mosaic indicators - theoretical approach for the development of indicators for species diversity in agricultural landscapes (J. Hoffmann, J.M. Greef). Practical example of the mosaic indicators approach (J. Hoffmann, J.M. Greef et al.). Part IV. Experiences and applications. Application of biotic indicators for evaluation of sustainable land use - current procedures and future developments (E. Osinski, U. Meier et al.). Bio-resource evaluation within agri-environmental assessment tools in different European countries (D. Braband, U. Geier, U. Köpke). Method for assessing the proportion of ecologically, culturally and provincially significant areas (OELF) in agrarian spaces used as a criterion for environmental friendly agriculture (D. Roth, M. Schwabe). Experiences with the application, recordation and valuation of agri-environmental indicators in agricultural practice (M. Menge). Field related organisms as possible indicators for evaluation of land use intensity (W. Heyer, K.-J. Hülsbergen et al.). Nature balance scheme for farms - evaluation of the ecological situation (R. Oppermann). Part V. Economy. Economic perspectives of using indicators (E. Osinski, J. Kantelhardt, A. Heissenhuber). Money as an indicator: to make use of economic evaluation for biodiversity conservation (I. Bräuer). Threshold values for nature protection areas as indicators for bio-diversity - a regional evaluation of economic and ecological consequences (S. Herrmann, S. Dabbert, H.-G. Schwarz-von Raumer). Comparative assessment of agri-environment programmes in federal states of Germany (R. Marggraf). Is there a reliable correlation between hedgerow density and agricultural site conditions? (J. Kantelhardt, E. Osinski, A. Heissenhuber). Consideration of biotic nature conservation targets in agricultural land use - a case study from the Biosphere Reserve Schorfheide-Chorin (A. Meyer-Aurich, P. Zander, M. Hermann). Rewards for ecological goods - requirements and perspectives for agricultural land use (B. Gerowitt, J. Isselstein, R. Marggraf). Author Index. Subject Index. Volume Contents. Editorial Advisory Board.