Evaluating ecosystem health in relation to the ecological, economic and human health
spheres requires integrating human values with biophysical processes, an integration that …

The direct and indirect effects of iron on the structure and function of lotic ecosystems are
reviewed. In addition to the mining of Fe enriched ores, intensified forestry, peat production …

Environmental (or instream) flows are flows that are left in, or released into, a river system
with the specific purpose of managing some aspect of its condition. Their purpose could be …

N early all ecosystems are sub-ject to periodic disturbances by natural events, such as flood,
fire, drought, and insect infestation (Vogl 1980). When such perturbations are extreme …

The riparian zone and instream habitat integrity of the Luvuvhu River were assessed based
on a qualitative rating of the impacts of major disturbance factors such as water abstraction …

The planet we are living on is getting small; each decade the number of people here grows
by almost 1 billion. Due to the escalating pressure that mankind puts on natural resources …

Data resources and assessment frameworks are two keys to ecosystem health assessment
(EHA). Application of the land use database together with the Pressure–State–Response …

There is considerable discussion about the nature of the health metaphor as applied to
ecosystems. One does not need to accept the analogy of ecosystem as' organism'to reap …

Anthropogenic stress on the earth's ecosystems has resulted in widespread prevalence of
ecosystem distress syndrome, a quantifiable set of signs of ecosystem degradation. At the …

Transformation in human-dominated ecosystems results from cumulative impacts of human
activity. A comprehensive system for State of Environment Reporting (SOER) must take into …