Adding Ecological Considerations to “Environmental” Accounting

Environmental cleanup using plants: biotechnological advances and ecological considerations

inorganic and organic compounds, primarily as a result of human activities. While inorganic pollutants occur as natural elements in the Earth’s crust and atmosphere, human activities such as industry, mining, motorized traffic, agriculture, logging, and military actions promote their release and concentration in the environment, leading to toxicity (Nriagu 1979). Organic pollutants in the envir...

BRIDGES Considerations for analyzing ecological community thresholds in response to anthropogenic environmental gradients

The goal of this paper is to help managers better understand implications of using aggregate community metrics, such as taxon richness or Indices of Biotic Integrity (IBI), for detecting threshold responses to anthropogenic environmental gradients. To illustrate, we offer an alternative analytical approach, Threshold Indicator Taxa ANalysis (TITAN), geared toward identifying synchronous changes...

Environmental and ecological considerations for orange-spotted grouper (Epinephelus coioides) cage culture in Qeshm Island, based on GIS

Statistics and all of that global governance the demand for its use in the den or tool is increasing rapidly. In Iran, most of it in the areas of population away from the work of the twenty of the month and those of the other tool except it was not different items, due to the growth of public awareness and disseminating information about the properties in use of the tool and its use is growing....

Introduction to Online Ecological and Environmental Data

Wealth Accounting, Ecological Capital and Ecosystem Services

This paper develops a methodology for including ecosystem services in a wealth accounting framework. Accounting for ecosystems and their services leads to adjusting net domestic product (NDP) for the direct benefits provided by the current stock of ecosystems but not for their indirect contributions in terms of protecting or supporting economic activity, property and human lives. When ecosystem...