What is meant by ecosystem health?
Give an idea of ecosystem health profile.
State the indicators of ecosystem health?
How health deterioration is diagnosed?
How can health of an ecosystem be recovered?
What protective and ameliorative or therapeutic strategies can be adopted?
How indicators can tell about the good health, the bad health, deteriorating health or the recovering health?
In a most simplistic manner, they all collectively guide the carrying capacity of an ecosystem..
Hi Jayanata,
In his seminal 2003 book entitled "Managing for Healthy Ecosystems" (CRC Press) David J. Rapport refers to ecosystem health as the "capacity of a system to perform normal functions." In the Preface to the book the authors suggest that "Ecosystem health embodies the capacity of ecosystems to function without impairment." If you can get a copy of this book it is well worth it. To give you some idea how the concept of ecosystem health is being used in marine sciences I have attached a few reviews that you may find interesting. I hope this helps a bit.
Tomas
Both previous answers provide useful guidance (I also reference Rappoet 2003). I'm suggesting you need to decide what your objective is before you start checking out tools; reverse engineering so to say. If you do not design your experiment, you end up diving for data useful to your project (and it may or may not be there). Take the time and complete your experimental design
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