Ecological time series

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Ecological time series

edited by Thomas M. Powell, John H. Steele

Chapman & Hall, c1995

  • : pbk
  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Volume

: hbk ISBN 9780412051913

Description

This volume explores time series analysis and interpretation using a range of methods and examples from terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecology. The book challenges climatology and epidemology. The first section of the book explores the basic concepts of environmental analysis, reviews state-of-the-art techniques and methodologies, and offers solutions to analytical problems of longer time series with special attention to climate change. This provides the reader with the conceptual and methodological tools to analyze environmental data accurately. The second section examines a variety of time scales used to describe change, and the variability within and between different ecosystems, so that diverse systems may be studied in an integrated way. The final section of the book illustrates key concepts and themes, based on the results of major investigations in various time scales, including studies from arctic sites to human epidemology.

Table of Contents

Part I: Analysis and methodology. Can ecological theory cross the land-sea interface? A modern view of applied time series analysis. The great ocean conveyer. Integration of spatial analysis in long-term ecological studies. A general review of dynamical systems. Analysis of long-time series. Part II: Comparisons of scales. Physical and biological scales of variability in lakes, estuaries and the coastal ocean. Ecological variability at the land-sea interface. Scales of variability in the Central Pacific. Temporal variability in the North Atlantic. Planning long-term vegetation studies at landscape scales. Comparisons of ecological time series. Part III: Processes and principles. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology. Long-term environmental change. Physical dynamics and ecological processes: The North Atlantic model. Long-term trends in an arctic ecosystem. Epidemiological approaches in ecological modelling. The invisible present. Ecological processes in time series.
Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780412052019

Description

This book results from a summer school held at Cornell University in 1992. The participants were graduate students and postdoctoral researchers selected from a broad range of interests and backgrounds in ecological studies. The summer school was the second in a continuing series whose underlying aim and the aim of this volume-is to bring together the different methods and concepts underpinning terrestrial, freshwater, and marine ecology. The first volume in the series focused on patch dynamics in these three ecologi cal sectors. Here we have endeavored to complement that volume by extending its comparative approach to the consideration of ecological time series. The types of data and the methods of collection are necessarily very different in these contrasting environments, yet the underlying concept and the technical problems of analysis have much in common. It proved to be of great interest and value to the summer school participants to see the differences and then work through to an appreciation ofthe generalizable concepts. We believe that such an approach must have value as well for a much larger audience, and we have structured this volume to provide a comparable reading experience.

Table of Contents

  • Part I: Analysis and methodology. Can ecological theory cross the land-sea interface? A modern view of applied time series analysis
  • The great ocean conveyer
  • Integration of spatial analysis in long-term ecological studies
  • A general review of dynamical systems
  • Analysis of long-time series
  • Part II: Comparisons of scales. Physical and biological scales of variability in lakes, estuaries, and the coastal ocean
  • Ecological variability at the land-sea interface
  • Scales of variability in the Central Pacific
  • Temporal variability in the North Atlantic
  • Planning long-term vegetation studies at landscape scales
  • Comparisons of ecological time series
  • Part III: Processes and principles. The problem of pattern and scale in ecology
  • Long-term environmental change
  • Physical dynamics and ecological processes: The North Atlantic model
  • Long-term trends in an Arctic ecosystem
  • Epidemiological approaches in ecological modelling
  • The invisible present
  • Ecological processes in time series.

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