Biodiversity Assessment of Tropical Island Ecosystems: PABITRA Manual for Interactive Ecology and Management
Edited by Dieter Mueller-Dombois, Kent W. Bridges, and Curtis C. Daehler
1-58178-074-5
Price: $39.95
Date of Publication: 2008
Size: 8.5 x 11
Pages: 256
Binding: cloth
Comments:
Details methods for systematic sampling and monitoring of the biological diversity in terrestrial, aquatic, coastal, and marine ecosystems for tropical island environments. Produced in cooperation with Pacific-Asia Biodiversity Transect (PABITRA), Asia Pacific Network for Global Change Research, University of the South Pacific, Pacific Science Association, Bishop Museum, University of Guam, and University of Hawaii.
Contents:
- Introduction
- Scope and Design of PABITRA
- Vegetation
- Terrestrial Animals and Aquatic Invertebrates
- Climatological and Hydrological Field Monitoring
- Traditional Agro-Ecosystems
- Stream Ecosystems
- Coastal Saltwater Ecosystems
- Ethnobiodiversity Surveys of Huma/Ecosystem Relationships
- Invasive Species
- Biological Resource Mapping
- Economic Valuation
- Processing Releve Data by Multivariate Analysis: The Synthesis Table, Dendrogram, and Ordination Technique
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