Ecosystem organization of a complex landscape: long-term research in the Bornhöved lake district, Germany

This volume provides a synthesis of long-term ecological analyses in the Bornhöved Lake District as a representative landscape of northem Germany. The emphasis is on the comprehensive assessment of matter and energy fluxes in and between the terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and their biocoenotic structures and dynamics on the one hand, and on transdisciplinary landscape planning approaches on the other. In each respect the development of novel hierarchical modelling approaches at various spatial and temporal scales is fundamental to the understanding of the structure and function of systems and to integrative resource management strategies. Analyses the fundamental processes of energy, water and nutrient cycling in order to improve both integral landscape planning and resource management techniques INDICE: General Concept of the Research Programme and Methodology of Investigations. Ecological Setting of the Study Area. Ecophysiological Key Processes in Agricultural and Forest Ecosystems. Carbon and Energy Balances of Different Ecosystems and Ecosystem Complexes of the Bornhöved Lake District. Water Relations at Different Scales. Site-Related Biocoenotic Dynamics. Biocoenotic Interactions between Different Ecotopes. Element Fluxes in Atmosphere, Vegetation and Soil. Transport Processes between Lake Belau and its Drainage Basin. Lake Belau. Ecological Gradients as Causes and Effects of Ecosystem Organization.An Indicator-Based Characterization of the Bornhöved Key Ecosystems. Ecosystem Research and Sustainable Land Use Management. Conclusions: Perspectives for an Integrative Landscape Planning, Management and Monitoring.

• ISBN: 978-3-540-75810-5
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 01/02/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés