MONITORING ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE IN AN ECOSYSTEM
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/4909
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.04.012
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2008.04.012
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The monitoring and analysis of the processes taking place in an ecosystem is a key issue for a sustainable human activity. A system of populations, as the biotic component of a complex ecosystem is usually affected by the variation of its abiotic environment. Even in nearly natural ecosystems an abiotic effect like climatic implications of global warming may cause important changes in the
dynamics of the population system. In ecosystems involving field cultivation or any industrial activity; the abiotic parameter in question may be the concentration of a substance, changing e.g. as a result of pollution, application of a pesticide, or a fertilizer, etc. In many cases the observation of the densities of each population may be technically complicated or expensive, therefore the question arises whether from the observation of the densities of certain (indicator) populations, the whole state
process of the population system can be uniquely recovered. The paper is aimed at a methodologica...
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Environmental monitoring
Observer system
Ecosystem