Frontiers in ecology Book

	Foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
	Linking science, policy and people	5
1	On the future of pastoralism in Australia's rangelands	7
2	Partnerships in Australian Commonwealth Fisheries Management	17
3	Integrated catchment management - linking policy, science, and the community: a case study from the Upper Parramatta River Catchment, New South Wales (Australia)	29
4	An alluring prospect? Ecology, and the requirements of adaptive management	39
	Natural and altered landscapes: disturbance ecology of ecosystems	53
5	Torch, trees, teeth and tussocks: disturbance in the tropical savannas of the Northern Territory (Australia)	55
6	Disturbance ecology of forested ecosystems: implications for sustainable management	67
7	Fire modelling and biodiversity	79
8	The impact of weed infestations on litter invertebrates in coastal vegetation	89
9	Concepts and issues in restoration of mangrove forests in urban environments	103
	Natural and altered landscapes: the rural perspective	115
10	Ecological sustainability of grazed landscapes on the Northern Tablelands of New South Wales (Australia)	117
11	Moving from the general to the specific: remnant management in rural Australia	131
12	Landcare, stewardship and biodiversity conservation	143
13	Beyond reserves: options for achieving nature conservation objectives in rural landscapes	155
	Land and water: links and barriers	169
14	Chemistry and microbial ecology: processes at the microscale	171
15	Plant life at the edge of wetlands: ecological responses to wetting and drying patterns	181
16	River channel complexity and ecosystem processes: the Barwon-Darling River (Australia)	193
17	Land-water linkages in the floodplain river systems: the influence of domestic stock	207
	Complexity in ecosystems: links, landscapes and models	219
18	Complexity in ecological systems	221
19	Characteristic scales in ecology: fact, fiction or futility?	233
20	Self-organising in spatial competition systems	245
21	Spatial structure in a host-pathogen system	265
22	Complexity in landscapes and resource planning: packaging science for decision makers	277
	Linking the past with the future: lessons and grand challenges in ecology	287
23	The future of Australian plant ecology - incisively idiographic or nebulously nomothetic?	289
24	Roles of technology in ecology	299
25	Assessing the impacts of climate change: the challenge for ecology	311
26	Roles for ecology in ecological economics and sustainable development	323
	Editorial Panel	335
	Contributors	337
	Index	339