Preface ....................................................... vii
Editors ........................................................ ix
Contributors ................................................... xi
Section I. Ecological Indicators
1 Introduction ................................................. 3
S.E. Jørgensen
2 Application of Indicators for the Assessment of Ecosystem
Health ....................................................... 9
S.E. Jørgensen, Fu-Liu Xu, João C. Marques, and
Fuensanta Salas
3 Eco-Exergy as Ecological Indicator .......................... 77
S.E. Jørgensen
4 Emergy Indices of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics ....... 89
Mark T. Brown and Sergio Ulgiati
5 Eco-Exergy to Emergy Flow Ratio for the Assessment of
Ecosystem Health ........................................... 113
F.M. Pulselli, C. Gaggi, and S. Bastianoni
6 Natural Capital Security/Vulnerability Related to
Disturbance in a Panarchy of Social-Ecological
Landscapes ................................................. 125
Nicola Zaccarelli, Irene Petrosillo, and Giovanni
Zurlini
7 Species Richness in Space and Time as an Indicator of
Human Activity and Ecological Change ....................... 149
Erich Tasser, Georg Niedrist, Patrick Zimmermann, and
Ulrike Tappeiner
8 Landscape Development Intensity and Pollutant Emergy /
Empower Density Indices as Indicators of Ecosystem
Health ..................................................... 171
Mark T. Brown and Kelly Chinners Reiss
9 Ecosystem Services and Ecological Indicators ............... 189
Robert Costanza
Section II. Assessment of Ecosystem Health
10 Application of Ecological Indicators for the Assessment
of Wetland Ecosystem Health ................................ 201
S.E. Jørgensen
11 Application of Ecological Indicators for the Assessment
of Ecosystem Health in Estuaries and Coastal Zones ......... 211
João С. Marques, Fuensanta Solas, J. Patricio,
J. Neto, H. Teixeira, and R. Pinto
12 Application of Ecological and Thermodynamic Indicators
for the Assessment of Ecosystem Health of Lakes ............ 263
Fu-Liu Xu
13 Application of Ecological Indicators in Forest
Management in Africa ....................................... 301
Kouami Kokou, Adzo Dzifa Kokutse, and Kossi Adjonou
14 Using Ecological Indicators to Assess the Health of
Marine Ecosystems: The North Atlantic ...................... 335
Villy Christensen and Philippe Cury
15 Indicators for the Management of Coastal Lagoons: Sacca
di Goro Case Study ......................................... 357
J.M. Zaldivar, M. Austoni, M. Plus, G.A. De Leo,
G. Giordani and P. Viaroli
16 Ecosystem Indicators for the Integrated Management
of Landscape Health and Integrity ......................... 391
Felix Müller and Benjamin Burkhard
17 Integrated Indicators for Evaluating Ecosystem Health:
An Application to Agricultural Systems ..................... 425
V. Niccolucci, R.M. Pulselli, S. Focardi, and
S. Bastianoni
18 Ecological Indicators to Assess the Health of River
Ecosystems ................................................. 447
Carles Ibáñez, Nuno Caiola, Peter Sharpe, and Rosa
Trobajo
Appendix ...................................................... 465
Index ......................................................... 467
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