Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / S.E. J²rgensen -- Application of indicators for the assessment of ecosystem health / S.E. J²rgensen ... [et al.] -- Application of ecological indicators to assess environmental quality in coastal zones and transitional waters: two case studies / J.C. Marques ... [et al.] -- Development and application of ecosystem health indicators in the North American Great Lakes basin / H. Shear ... [et al.] -- Application of ecological and thermodynamic indicators for the assessment of lake ecosystem health / F.-L. Xu -- Ecosystem health assessment and bioeconomic analysis in coastal lagoons / J.M. Zaldâivar ... [et al.] -- Application of ecological and thermodynamic indicators for the assessment of the ecosystem health of coastal areas / S.E. J²rgensen -- Application of ecological indicators for assessing health of marine ecosystems / V. Christensen, P. Cury -- Using ecological indicators in a whole-ecosystem wetland experiment / W.J. Mitsch ... [et al.] -- The joint use of exergy and emergy as indicators of ecosystems performances / S. Bastianoni ... [et al.] -- Application of thermodynamic indices to agro-ecosystems / Y.M. Svirezhev -- Ecosystem indicators for the integrated management of landscape health and integrity / R. Mèuller -- Multi-scale resilience estimates for health assessment of real habitats in a landscape / G. Zurlini, N. Zaccarelli, I. Petrosillo -- Emergy, transformity, and ecosystem health / M.T. Brown, S. Ulgiati -- Mass accounting and mass-based indicators / S. Bargigli, M. Raugei, S. Ulgiati -- The health of ecosystems: the Ythan Estuary case study / D. Raffaelli ... [et al.] -- Assessing marine ecosystem health-concepts and indicators, with reference to the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine, Northwest Atlantic / P.G. Wells. "The Handbook of Ecological Indicators for Assessment of Ecosystem Health is the first comprehensive account and guidebook to ecological indicators for evaluating the health of a wide variety of ecosystems. It explains what is needed to apply the methods and indicators, including theoretical background and modeling techniques, to evaluate the state of a given ecosystem. It will be useful for a wide range of environmental managers, natural resource managers, land use planners, and policy makers in government and non-governmental organizations worldwide."--BOOK JACKET.