Assessing ecological water quality with macroinvertebrates and fish: a case study from a small Mediterranean river.

abstract：:Land cover change in protected areas is often associated with human use, especially illicit extraction, but the direction and spatial distribution of such effects and their drivers are poorly understood. We analyze and explain the spatial distribution of vegetation change at the Kumbhalgarh Wildlife Sanctuary in the A...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Robbins PF,Chhangani AK,Rice J,Trigosa E,Mohnot SM

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transportation infrastructure in national parks has historically been designed for the automobile. With more vehicles in the parks, visitors found themselves in circumstances more reminiscent of a city than a park. Traffic jams, overcrowding, illegal parking, horn honking, and idling vehicles became common, creating s...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Mace BL,Marquit JD,Bates SC

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragmentation of family-owned farms and ranches has been identified as the greatest single threat to wildlife habitat, water supply, and the long-term viability of agriculture in Texas. However, an integrative framework for insights into the pathways of land use change has been lacking. The specific objectives of the ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Kjelland ME,Kreuter UP,Clendenin GA,Wilkins RN,Wu XB,Afanador EG,Grant WE

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the age of climate change, the demand and lack of pure water challenges many communities. Substantial amount of effort is put in every year to manage and restore degraded lakes while the long-term effects of those efforts are only poorly known or monitored. Oxygenation, or aeration, is used extensively for the rest...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Nygrén NA,Tapio P,Horppila J

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Monitoring is essential to track the long-term recovery of endangered species. Greater emphasis on habitat monitoring is especially important for taxa whose populations may be difficult to quantify (e.g., insects) or when true recovery (delisting) requires continuous species-specific habitat management. In this paper,...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bried J,Tear T,Shirer R,Zimmerman C,Gifford N,Campbell S,O'Brien K

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Visitor use surveys and water quality data indicates that high visitor use levels of two rivers in Puerto Rico does not appear to adversely affect several water quality parameters. Optimum visitor use to maximize visitor defined satisfaction is a more constraining limit on visitor use than water quality. Our multiple ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Santiago LE,Gonzalez-Caban A,Loomis J

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Riparian zones are critical for protecting water quality and wildlife, but are often impacted by human activities. Ongoing threats and uncertainty about the effectiveness of buffer regulations emphasize the importance of monitoring riparian buffers through time. We developed a method to rapidly categorize buffer width...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Owers KA,Albanese B,Litts T

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated differences in vegetation composition and dynamics for two globally rare ecosystems, bracken-grasslands and northern-dry forests of northern Wisconsin. These ecosystems commonly have been viewed as degraded pine barrens. Bracken-grasslands contained a high dominance of exotic species, low native richne...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Nielsen SE,Haney A

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the United States, forest governance practices have utilized a variety of public participation mechanisms to improve decision-making and instill public legitimacy. However, comments, one of the most frequent and accessible avenues for the public to provide input, has received little attention. Further, there has be...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： De'Arman KJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water management has been significantly reshaped throughout recent decades in Europe and worldwide. Vivid examples of this restructuring include Southern European coastal zones which have been transformed into the European "pleasure periphery" over the last 40 years, requiring significant changes in water service prov...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Thiel A

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper is a conceptual study that examines the viability of the construction of the Kra Isthmus within the context of the five dimensions of megaproject success of Sovacool and Cooper (The governance of energy megaprojects: politics, hubris, and energy security, 2013)-social (governance), technological (systems), ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lau CY,Lee JW

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigating local people's environmental perceptions can produce useful information that could be incorporated into decision making processes that help resolve environmental problems. Although China is undergoing severe desertification, the perceptions of the local people toward their degraded environment and the re...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lee HF,Zhang DD

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cross-boundary coordination is a tool for ecosystem management whereby landowners voluntarily coordinate management practices toward economic and/or ecological landscape-scale outcomes (e.g., fiber, invasive species control, habitat). Past research indicates that it may be particularly applicable on landscapes that in...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Gass RJ,Rickenbach M,Schulte LA,Zeuli K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The Itapiranga Sustainable Logging Plan provides an example of how Brazil's licensing system functions for logging companies in the state of Amazonas. Two questions need to be dealt with: "How sustainable can logging in the Amazon be?" and "What and how effective are existing legal mechanisms to deal with logging pr...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Eve E,Arguelles FA,Fearnside PM

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate procedures that measure hydrologic variability would have great value for evaluating ecosystem impacts of upstream water use in the Colorado River Basin. Many local extractive income-based stakeholders rely directly or indirectly on ecosystem health and are adversely affected when the river does not flow. Thi...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： All JD

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil's Cuiabá-Santarém (BR-163) Highway provides a valuable example of ways in which decision-making procedures for infrastructure projects in tropical forest areas need to be reformulated in order to guarantee that environmental concerns are properly weighed. BR-163, which is slated to be paved as an export corrido...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study implements an exploratory data analysis of landscape metrics and a change detection analysis of land use and population density to assess landscape dynamics (1954-2008) in two physiographic zones (plain and hilly-mountain area) of Emilia Romagna, northern Italy. The two areas are characterized by different ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Smiraglia D,Ceccarelli T,Bajocco S,Perini L,Salvati L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ Regional resource use planning relies on key regional stakeholder groups using and having equitable access to appropriate social, economic, and environmental information and assessment tools. Decision support systems (DSS) can improve stakeholder access to such information and analysis tools. Regional resource use p...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Zhu X,Dale AP

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ The quality and sustainability of the natural environment is a matter of inestimable value and is critical to public health and welfare. All species have a purpose, and they exist for the betterment of other species. It is, therefore, incumbent on all humans to do their part in the preservation of this vast, diverse...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： HEYDLAUFF DE

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mining-contaminated sites and the affected communities at risk are important issues on the agenda of both researchers and policy makers, particularly in the former communist block countries in Eastern Europe. Integrated analyses and expert based assessments concerning mining affected areas are important in providing s...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dogaru D,Zobrist J,Balteanu D,Popescu C,Sima M,Amini M,Yang H

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methods for defining and retrieving reference conditions for large rivers were explored with emphasis on hydromorphologic and biologic quality indicators. For a set of four large rivers in the European Western Plains ecoregion, i.e., the rivers Meuse, Loire, Allier, and Dordogne, reference reaches were selected based ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Van Looy K,Meire P,Wasson JG

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An agricultural watershed, situated on an island of the Aegean archipelago, was studied in order to gain insight into the structure and the design of a typical terrestrial ecosystem of the Mediterranean region. Fieldwork was focused on the comparative study of seasonal patterns of inorganic nutrients, organic nitrogen...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Arhonditsis G,Giourga C,Loumou A

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brazil's Samuel Dam, which formed a 540-km2 reservoir in the state of Rondônia in 1988, provides lessons for development decisions throughout Amazonia and in other tropical areas. The decision to build the dam was heavily influenced by its role in the political strategies of key decision makers. Samuel illustrates bot...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Fearnside PM

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper gives an account of the development and implementation of a stakeholder management framework at Ream National Park, Cambodia. Firstly, the concept of stakeholder is reviewed in management and in conservation literatures. Secondly, the context in which the stakeholder framework was implemented is described. T...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： De Lopez TT

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The scientific research literature is reviewed (i) for evidence of how much reduction in nonpoint source pollution can be achieved by installing buffers on crop land, (ii) to summarize important factors that can affect this response, and (iii) to identify remaining major information gaps that limit our ability to make...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Dosskey MG

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent greening of the Sahel region and increase in vegetation cover around pastoral settlements previously described as "man-made deserts", have raised important questions on the permanency of land degradation associated with the over-exploitation of woody plants. Evidence presented is mostly on increased wetness...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Roba HG,Oba G

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:/ This paper presents a foundation for improving the risk assessmentprocess for freshwater wetlands. Integrating wetland science, i.e., use of anecosystem-based approach, is the key concept. Each biotic and abiotic wetlandcomponent should be identified and its contribution to ecosystem functionsand societal values det...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Lemly AD

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The adoption of environmentally sustainable techniques by cooperatives and small companies results in specific difficulties rarely discussed in the literature. This paper describes an "action-research" carried out by seafood cultivators and university researchers in Guanabara Bay, which resulted in the substitution of...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Bessa Eda S,d'Avignon A,Valle R,Teixeira MG

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western North America is experiencing a dramatic expansion of piñon (Pinus spp.) and juniper (Juniperus spp.) (P-J) trees into shrub-steppe communities. Feature extracted data acquired from remotely sensed imagery can help managers rapidly and accurately assess this land cover change in order to manage rangeland ecosy...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Madsen MD,Zvirzdin DL,Davis BD,Petersen SL,Roundy BA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Social learning is a process suited to developing understanding and concerted action to tackle complex resource dilemmas, such as freshwater management. Research has begun to recognise that in practice social learning encounters a variety of institutional challenges from the shared habits and routines of stakeholders ...

journal_title：Environmental management

authors： Turner JA,Allen W,Fraser C,Fenemor A,Horita A,White T,Chen L,Atkinson M,Rush M

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00