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Ecological assessment (Biology)

Here are entered works on estimating and evaluating the effects that human activities have on living organisms and their habitats. Works on estimating and evaluating the actual or potential hazards that toxic substances pose to an ecosystem are entered under Ecological risk assessment.

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• Environmental impact analysis
• Nature -- Effect of human beings on
• Applied ecology

• Ecological surveys

• Biological evaluation of environmental impacts
• Ecological damage assessment (Biology)

• Assessing and Managing the Ecological Impacts of Paved Roads (2005), by National Research Council Committee on Ecological Impacts of Road Density (HTML and page images at NAP)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Procedures for Quantitative Ecological Assessments in Intertidal Environments (1978), by J. J. Gonor and P. F. Kemp (page images at HathiTrust)

• Environmental Influences Affecting Blondes in Rhodesia and Their Bearing on the Future: A Survey of the Situation From the Medical and Scientific Standpoints (Harare: Rhodesia Independent Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1922), by W. M. Hewetson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Environmental Influences Affecting Blondes in Rhodesia and Their Bearing on the Future: A Survey of the Situation From the Medical and Scientific Standpoints (Harare: Rhodesia Independent Co.; London: Simpkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co., 1922), by W. M. Hewetson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• A Survey of Vegetation in the Flaming Gorge Reservoir Basin (University of Utah Anthropological Papers #45; 1960), by Angus M. Woodbury, Stephen David Durrant, and Seville Flowers (page images at HathiTrust)

• IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide Capture and Storage (2005), by Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (PDF files at ipcc.ch)
• Regulating Pesticides (1980), by National Research Council Committee on Prototype Explicit Analyses for Pesticides (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Environmental Information for Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Decisions in Alaska (1994), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Science Priorities for the Human Dimensions of Global Change (1994), by National Research Council (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Global Environmental Change: Understanding the Human Dimensions (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education, ed. by Paul C. Stern, Oran R. Young, and Daniel Druckman (page images with commentary at NAP)
• One Earth, One Future: Our Changing Global Environment (1990), by Cheryl Simon Silver and Ruth S. DeFries (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Minimal Ethics for the Anthropocene (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2014), by Joanna Zylinska (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• The End of Man: A Feminist Counterapocalypse (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2018), by Joanna Zylinska (HTML and video with commentary at umn.edu)
• Our Common Future (1987), by World Commission on Environment and Development (HTML at eytv4scf.net)
• Art in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Aesthetics, Politics, Environments and Epistemologies (London: Open Humanities Press, 2015), ed. by Heather M. Davis and E. Turpin (PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• Architecture in the Anthropocene: Encounters Among Design, Deep Time, Science and Philosophy (Ann Arbor: Open Humanities Press, 2013), ed. by E. Turpin (HTML and PDF with commentary at Open Humanities Press)
• The Earth as Modified by Human Action: A New Edition of Man and Nature (1878), by George P. Marsh (Gutenberg text)
• Man and Nature: or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action (New York: C. Scribner and Co., 1869), by George P. Marsh (page images at MOA)
• The Hoodwinking of a Nation (pre-publication version of "Hoodwinking the Nation"), by Julian Lincoln Simon (HTML at juliansimon.com)

• Reading the Entrails: An Alberta Ecohistory (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, c1999), by Norman C. Conrad (PDF files at University of Calgary)

• Nature and Human Society: The Quest for a Sustainable World, ed. by Peter H. Raven and Tania Williams (page images with commentary at NAP)

• On the Banks of the Gaṅgā: When Wastewater Meets a Sacred River (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2002), by Kelly D. Alley (page images at HathiTrust)

• Secure from Rash Assault: Sustaining the Victorian Environment (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1999), by James H. Winter (frame-dependent illustrated HTML with commentary at UC Press)

• Alteration of Native Hawaiian Vegetation: Effects of Humans, Their Activities and Introductions (c1990), by Linda W. Pratt and Charles P. Stone (PDF at Wayback Machine)

• Wagering the Land: Ritual, Capital, and Environmental Degradation in the Cordillera of Northern Luzon, 1900-1986 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992), by Martin W. Lewis (HTML at UC Press)

• River Flowing From the Sunrise: An Environmental History of the Lower San Juan (Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, c2000), by James M. Aton and Robert S. McPherson (PDF with commentary at usu.edu)

• Taking a Stand on the Environment, by Helen P. Rogers (HTML at Wayback Machine)

• Sustainable Landscape Design in Arid Climates (1996), ed. by William O'Reilly (PDF at archnet.org)

• A Review of the Accomplishments and Plans of the NOAA Coastal Ocean Program (1994), by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Bering Sea Ecosystem (1996), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Proceedings of the Jakarta Workshop on Coastal Resources Management, by Jakarta Workshop on Coastal Resources Management, ed. by Eric C. F. Bird and Aprilani Soegiarto (HTML at UNU Press)

• Improving Interactions Between Coastal Science and Policy: Proceedings of the Gulf of Maine Symposium, by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Improving Interactions Between Coastal Science and Policy: Proceedings of the Gulf of Maine Symposium, by National Research Council Ocean Studies Board (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Environmental Science in the Coastal Zone: Issues for Further Research (1994), by National Research Council Commission on Geosciences, Environment, and Resources (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Demography of the Northern Spotted Owl (1996), ed. by Eric D. Forsman, Stephen DeStefano, Martin G. Raphael, and R. J. Guttierez (PDF at unm.edu)

• Plant Morphogenesis as the Basis for Scientific Management of Range Resources: Proceedings of the Workshop of the United States-Australia Rangelands Panel, Berkeley, California, March 29-April 5, 1971 (Washington: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1974), by United States/Australia Rangeland Panel, ed. by K. W. Kreitlow and Richard H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Plant Morphogenesis as the Basis for Scientific Management of Range Resources: Proceedings of the Workshop of the United States-Australia Rangelands Panel, Berkeley, California, March 29-April 5, 1971 (Washington: Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1974), by United States/Australia Rangeland Panel, ed. by K. W. Kreitlow and Richard H. Hart (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hawai'i's Terrestrial Ecosystems: Preservation and Management (Honolulu: Coperative National Park Resouece Studies Unit, c1985), ed. by Charles P. Stone and J. Michael Scott
  • PDF and RTF files at hear.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• A Biological Survey for the Nation (1994), by National Research Council Committee on the Formation of the National Biological Survey (HTML with commentary at NAP)
• Endangered Ecosystems of the United States: A Preliminary Assessment of Loss and Degradation, by Reed F. Noss, Edward T. LaRoe, and J. Michael Scott (illustrated HTML at USGS)

• Yellowstone's Northern Range: Complexity and Change in a Wildland Ecosystem (1997) (PDF at greateryellowstonescience.org)

• Managing Wastewater in Coastal Urban Areas (1993), by National Research Council Water Science and Technology Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Bulletin (Yale School of Forestry/Environment) (partial serial archives)
• Forests and Food: Addressing Hunger and Nutrition Across Sustainable Landscapes (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, 2015), ed. by Bhaskar Vira, Christoph Wildburger, and Stephanie Mansourian (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• Lehrbuch der Forstverwaltung (in German; Munich: M. Rieger'sche Universitäts-Buchhandlung, 1883), by Joseph Albert (page images at HathiTrust)

• Rangeland Health: New Methods to Classify, Inventory, and Monitor Rangelands (1994), by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Stream Reach Inventory and Channel Stability Evaluation: A Watershed Management Procedure (St. Paul, MN: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Northern Region, 1975), by United States Forest Service Northern Region (page images at HathiTrust)

• An Evaluation of the U.S. Navy's Extremely Low Frequency Communications System Ecological Monitoring Program (1997), by National Research Council Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Environmental Monitoring for Nuclear Safeguards (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Helping Nature Heal: An Introduction to Environmental Restoration (c1991), ed. by Richard Nilsen (page images at wholeearth.info)
• Restoring and Protecting Marine Habitat: The Role of Engineering and Technology (1994), by National Research Council Marine Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.