Overview
- Presents geographically balanced case studies of coastal ecosystem modeling in Latin America
- Serves as a bridge between modelling and applications
- Unifies different visions and approaches from ecological and social perspectives
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Natural and Human Environment of Coastal Ecosystems
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Marine Ecosystem Models in the Latin American Coasts
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About this book
Covering coastal marine ecosystems of Latin America such as the NE and SE Pacific, NW Atlantic and Caribbean areas, it discusses the construction of quantitative (Ecopath-Ecosim-Ecospace and Centrality of Node Sets) and semi-quantitative (Loop Analysis) multispecies trophic-network models to describe and assess the impacts of natural and human interventions like pelagic and benthic fishing as well as natural events such as El Niño, and La Niña. The book also features steady state (and/or near moving equilibrium) and dynamical models to support the management of exploited organisms, and applies and quantifies macroscopic indices, based on Ascendency (Ulanowicz) and Local Stability (Levins´ Loop Analysis). Further, it discusses the determination of the Keystone Species Complex Index, which is a holistic extension of the classical concept of Keystone Species (Paine), offering novel strategies for conservation monitoring and management.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Ferenc Jordán (PhD) is a Hungarian biologist with a MSc in Biology (1996) and PhD in Genetics (1999), both from Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. He was a Branco Weiss Fellow (at Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study (Budapest, Hungary); Group Leader at The Microsoft Research – COSBI (2008-2016, Trento, Italy), Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany (2016-2017), and has been an Associated Professor at Stazione Zoologica, Napoli, Italy since 2016. He is also a Doctor of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (DSc, 2009). The editor of several international scientific journals, he has multidisciplinary interests and is active in an extensive international collaboration network. His publications focus on gaining a better understanding various biological networks (habitat networks, food webs, protein interaction networks, social networks of animals, security-related networks). Recently Dr. Jordán has served as panelist for several grant agencies (e.g. European Research Council, Lithuanian Research Council, Polish National Science Center).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Marine Coastal Ecosystems Modelling and Conservation
Book Subtitle: Latin American Experiences
Editors: Marco Ortiz, Ferenc Jordán
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58211-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58210-4Published: 17 December 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-58213-5Published: 18 December 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-58211-1Published: 16 December 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 207
Number of Illustrations: 38 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: Ecosystems, Freshwater & Marine Ecology, Environmental Sociology, Fish & Wildlife Biology & Management, Nature Conservation