Whether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or blacktailed prairie dog or strategies for controlling exotic pests this bookexplains how ca... » 

Whether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or blacktailed prairie dog or strategies for controlling exotic pests this bookexplains how capturing ecological relationships across a landscape withpragmatic optimization models can be applied to real world problems. Usinglinear programming Hof and Bevers show how it is possible for the researcherto include many thousands of choice variables and many thousands of constraintsand still be quite confident of being able to solve the problem in hand withwidely available software. The authors emphasis is to preserve optimality andexplore how much ecosystem function can be captured stressing the solvabilityof large problems such as those in real world case studies. «