MAP20070039123Handbook of ecological indicators for assessment of ecosystem health / edited by Sven E. Jorgensen, Fu-Liu Xu, Robert Costanza. — London [etc.] : CRC Press, cop. 2005439 p. ; 24 cmThe book presents a conceptual framework for selecting, evaluating and validating ecological indicators of ecosystem health, such as thermodynamics, resilience estimates, exergy and emerging indicators. This framework is applied in a series of chapters on major ecosystem types , including a coastal area, forests, wetlands fisheries and agricultural land