TY - BOOK ID - 78124039 TI - Ecosystem Organization of a Complex Landscape : Long-Term Research in the Bornhöved Lake District, Germany AU - Fränzle, Otto AU - Kappen, Ludger AU - Blume, Hans-Peter AU - Dierssen, Klaus AU - SpringerLink (Online service) PY - 2008 SN - 9783540758105 9783540758112 PB - Berlin Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg DB - UniCat KW - Biotic communities KW - Ecosystem management KW - Environmental monitoring KW - Land-water ecotones KW - 504 KW - 911.53 KW - Ecosystems management KW - Applied ecology KW - Environmental management KW - Nature conservation KW - Biodiversity conservation KW - Aquatic-terrestrial ecotones KW - Terrestrial-aquatic ecotones KW - Water-land ecotones KW - Ecotones KW - Biomonitoring (Ecology) KW - Ecological monitoring KW - Environmental quality KW - Monitoring, Environmental KW - Environmental engineering KW - Pollution KW - Biocenoses KW - Biocoenoses KW - Biogeoecology KW - Biological communities KW - Biomes KW - Biotic community ecology KW - Communities, Biotic KW - Community ecology, Biotic KW - Ecological communities KW - Ecosystems KW - Natural communities KW - Ecology KW - Population biology KW - 504 Environment. Environmental science KW - Environment. Environmental science KW - Computer simulation KW - Cultural landscape KW - Management KW - Measurement KW - Monitoring UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78124039 AB - This book presents the major findings of a 12-year ecological study of the Bornhöved Lake District, situated some 30 km south of Kiel. Historically speaking, the present research scheme, like comparable long-term ecosystem studies at Göttingen, Bayreuth, München, and Berchtesgaden, has been conceived as the core of a comprehensive ecological surveillance system for Germany (Ellenberg et al. 1978). Comprising three interrelated components, namely an ecological monitoring network, comparative ecosystem research, and an environmental specimen bank, this system is intended to promote both ecological science and planning and policy. In this connection the geo- and bioscientifically based ecosystem research aims at understanding the structure and functions of systems, the natural equilibrium and stress tolerance of singular components and the entire system against changes and disturbances from within and from outside, and the relationships between diversity, productivity, and stability. Thus, ecosystem research forms the indispensable basis for the rational analysis of the comprehensive data sets made available by ecological monitoring networks and for the adequate selection of plant, animal, and soil specimens for environmental specimen banking purposes. ER -