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Resource ecology of the Bolinao coral reef system
Type: Working Paper
The book describes an intensive four-year program of monitoring the community ecology and harvest patterns of a large fringing coral reef system in northeastern Philippines. Reef harvest methods included principally ...
Valuation of tropical coastal resources: theory and application of linear programming
Type: Working Paper
This study illustrates the utility of the Linear Programming (LP) approach to optimize the use of coastal resources. OPUS, the LP software, was used to analyze the mangrove resources of the Gulf of Guayaquil, Ecuador; ...
The application of rapid rural appraisal techniques in coastal resources planning: experience in Malampaya Sound, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The Rapid Rural Appraisal (RRA) techniques often employed to fast-track the assessments of agricultural and forest resource systems were applied to the coastal resource planning of Malampaya Sound in Palawan Island, western ...
Report on the Regional Workshop on Resources Use Zonation for Lingayen Gulf
Type: Report
The Lingayen Gulf Coastal Area Management Plan (NEDA, Region I 1992) completed under the ASEAN/US Coastal Resources Management Project in late 1991 recommended that a zonation scheme be established for Lingayen Gulf. It ...
Seaweed-based economic activities in Lombok and Bali, Indonesia
Type: Journal Article
Seaweed production is an important secondary, activity for fishers in eastern Indonesia. In Lombok and Bali, however, it is a major enterprise involving whole village communities in a range of activities from trading to tourism.
Artificial reefs in the Philippines
Type: Conference Proceedings
This workshop and the resulting proceedings came into being as a result of cumulative concerns by aid agencies, nongovernmental organizations and by government authorities and researchers on the mass installation of artificial ...
Report on the training courses under the GISCAMP Project
Type: Report
Capability building in the use of geographic information systems (GIS) is one of the major objectives of the GISCAMP Project. This was achieved through training of NRO project staff and from other government agencies in ...
Ecological input-costs in agricultural production in northwest Kampuchea
Type: Journal Article
On-farm trials were used to evaluate the agro-economic feasibility of growing a second rice crop in Northwest Kampuchea in the dry season, and to calculate the costs and benefits of ecological inputs in agricultural ...
A guide to ECOPATH II software system (version 2.0)
Type: Manual
This guide documents the use and background of the ECOPATH II software system written for MS DOS computers for straightforward construction and parametrization of steady-state trophic models of aquatic ecosystems. ECOPATH ...
Diet composition and trophic levels of marine mammals
Type: Journal Article
Standardized diet compositions were derived for 97 species of marine mammals from published accounts of stomach contents as well as from morphological, behavioural and other information. Diet was apportioned among eight ...