Designed ecosystem services: application of ecological principles in wastewater treatment engineering

Graham, David W.; Smith, Val H.

dc.contributor.author	Graham, David W.
dc.contributor.author	Smith, Val H.
dc.date.accessioned	2015-02-13T18:22:54Z
dc.date.available	2015-02-13T18:22:54Z
dc.date.issued	2004
dc.identifier.citation	Graham, D. W., & Smith, V. H. (2004). Designed ecosystem services: application of ecological principles in wastewater treatment engineering. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, 2(4), 199–206. http://dx.doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0199:DESAOE]2.0.CO;2	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1808/16666
dc.description.abstract	Wastewater treatment engineering and ecology have complementary goals and need to interact much more closely. Wastewater engineers and ecologists share strong interests in the structure and function of biological communities, yet rarely engage in extensive interdisciplinary dialogue. Wastewater (bioprocess) engineers focus on solving practical environmental problems and typically do not work forward from ecological principles to test specific theories. Ecologists, on the other hand, have focused primarily on the collection and analysis of data in order to test specific scientific hypotheses; only recently have they emphasized ecological applications as well. Wastewater engineers should use the fundamentals of ecological theory to help guide future system design and ecologists should view engineered biosystems as valuable new platforms for ecological research.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	This research was supported in part by National Science Foundation (NSF) Grant 98-16192 to MA Leibold and VH Smith, and NSF Grant EPS-9874732 to DW Graham, FJ Devlin, and J Kelly. The ideas presented in this paper benefited greatly from our interactions and discussions with participants of the NSF and State of Kansas sponsored symposium, Frontiers in Engineering Biology, held in December 2002 at the University of Kansas. We also thank Brendan Bohannan, Tom Curtis, Rick Devlin, Peter Engesgaard, Ian Head, Bob Holt, John Kelly, Peter Morin, Dan Oerther, Bill Sloan and Tat Ebihara. Table 2 was inspired by a table of ecological applications in Morin (1999).	en_US
dc.publisher	Ecological Society of America	en_US
dc.rights	Copyright by the Ecological Society of America
dc.title	Designed ecosystem services: application of ecological principles in wastewater treatment engineering	en_US
dc.type	Article
kusw.kuauthor	Graham, David W.
kusw.kuauthor	Smith, Val H.
kusw.kudepartment	Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology	en_US
kusw.kudepartment	Department of Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1890/1540-9295(2004)002[0199:DESAOE]2.0.CO;2
kusw.oaversion	Scholarly/refereed, publisher version
kusw.oapolicy	This item does not meet KU Open Access policy criteria.
dc.rights.accessrights	openAccess

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