Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 119. Chapters: Biogeography, Invasive species, Biomass, Edge effect, Wetland, Colony, Ecological land classification, Sustainability, Urban sprawl, Constructed wetland, Natural environment, Fire ecology, Ecosystem services, Invasion biology terminology, Habitat destruction, Introduced species, Ecological succession, Phytoremediation, Ecological trap, Ecological effects of biodiversity, Conservation Reserve Program, Vegetation and slope stability, Intact forest landscape, Genetic pollution, Cultural landscape, Litterfall, Wildlife management, Afghanistanism, Flexible Mechanisms, Bioremediation, Riparian buffer, Conservation status, Ecosystem model, Agroecological restoration, Stream restoration, Disturbance, Thermal desorption, Climax community, Defensible space, Education for Sustainable Development, Water-meadow, Landscape limnology, Biological pollution, Shifting baseline, Natural landscape, Biosurfactant, Minimum viable population, Soil seed bank, Patch dynamics, Rural-urban fringe, Ecological thinning, Climax species, Ecological design, Carbon diet, Floodplain restoration, Fuel ladder, Colonisation, Habitat Conservation Plan, Treatment wetland, Rare species, Incidental Take Permit, Critical habitat, Recovery Plan, Secondary succession, Species diversity, Guild, Climax vegetation, Environmental data, DPSIR, Green solutions, Desakota, Environmental impact design, Flood-meadow, Levels of Organization, Actor analysis, Biota, Wildland-urban interface, Permanent vegetative cover. Excerpt: Sustainability is the capacity to endure. In ecology, the word describes how biological systems remain diverse and productive over time. Long-lived and healthy wetlands and forests are examples of sustainable biological systems. For humans, sustainability is the potential for long-term maintenance of well being, which has environmental, economic, ...