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A good half of applied ecology is usually devoted to determining what is contained within the existing natural environment. The other half generally deals with predictions of one sort or another, as specific as possible, about how the natural environment can be expected to respond to the proposed action or structure being evaluated.
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De Santo, R.S. (1978). Lethal, Sublethal, and Nonlethal Environmental Stress. In: Concepts of Applied Ecology. Heidelberg Science Library. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9432-7_5
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