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Are There Ecological Foundations for Ecosystem Health?

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  • Svenja Belaoussoff

    (University of Guelph, Guelph)

  • Peter G. Kevan

    (University of Guelph, Guelph)

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We present a critical introduction to the problems shared by ecologists and ecosystem health researchers who attempt to integrate applied ecology with other disciplines. The importance of the concept of ecosystem health as an approach to environmental problems is presented, and the difficulties in integrating ecology into the concept are outlined. A rigorous ecological and evolutionary basis for ecosystem health is introduced through diversity abundance models and especially by the outcome of competitive exclusion, niche hierarchy, and log normality. The importance of defining functional groups for assessing the effects of disturbance (e.g., on pollinators, macrolepidoptera, diatoms, gut bacteria) and in the broader context of ecosystem health (e.g., through pollinating bees) is stressed.

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  • Svenja Belaoussoff & Peter G. Kevan, 2003. "Are There Ecological Foundations for Ecosystem Health?," Environment Systems and Decisions, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 255-263, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:envsyd:v:23:y:2003:i:3:d:10.1023_b:envr.0000017380.74951.b8
    DOI: 10.1023/B:ENVR.0000017380.74951.b8
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    1. Peter C. Kevan & Edward B. Oppermann, 1980. "Blueberry Production in new Brunswick, nova scotia, And Maine: A Reply to wood ET AL," Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics/Revue canadienne d'agroeconomie, Canadian Agricultural Economics Society/Societe canadienne d'agroeconomie, vol. 28(1), pages 81-84, February.
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    1. Dan Ye & Liu Yang & Min Zhou, 2023. "Spatiotemporal Variation in Ecosystem Health and Its Driving Factors in Guizhou Province," Land, MDPI, vol. 12(7), pages 1-23, July.

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