Overview

This volume explores time series analysis and interpretation using a wide range of methods and examples from terrestrial, marine and freshwater ecology. It challenges readers to discern interdisciplinary processes that can unify fields as diverse as climatology and epidemiology. 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, providing 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 epidemiology. The book should be of interest to ecologists, limnologists, oceanographers, marine or aquatic scientists, plant scientists, entomologists, zoologists and earth scientists.

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Author:   Thomas M. Powell ,  John H. Steele
Publisher:   Chapman and Hall
Imprint:   Chapman and Hall
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.960kg
ISBN:  

9780412052019

ISBN 10:   0412052016
Pages:   494
Publication Date:   31 December 1994
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

I. Analysis and Methodology.- 1. Can Ecological Concepts Span the Land and Ocean Domains?.- 2. Fitting Population Models to Time Series Data.- 3. Estimate of Interhemispheric Ocean Carbon Transport Based on ?CO2 and Nutrient Distribution.- 4. Integration of Spatial Analysis in Long-Term Ecological Studies.- 5. Dynamical Systems Theory for Ecologists: A Brief Overview.- 6. The Natural History of Time Series.- 7. Detecting Periodicity in Quantitative versus Semi-Quantitative Times Series.- II. Comparisons of Scales.- 8. Physical and Biological Scales of Variability in Lakes, Estuaries, and the Coastal Ocean.- 9. Year-to-Year Fluctuation of the Spring Phytoplankton Bloom in South San Francisco Bay: An Example of Ecological Variability at the Land-Sea Interface.- 10. Scales of Variability in a Stable Environment: Phytoplankton in the Central North Pacific.- 11. Ocean Time Series Research Near Bermuda: The Hydrostation S Time-Series and the Bermuda Atlantic Time-Series Study (BATS) Program.- 12. Planning Long-Term Vegetation Studies at Landscape Scales.- 13. Time Series Compared Across the Land-Sea Gradient.- III. Processes and Principles.- 14. The Problem of Pattern and Scale in Ecology.- 15. Long-Term Environmental Change.- 16. Monitoring Ocean Productivity by Assimilating Satellite Chlorophyll into Ecosystem Models.- 17. Long-Term Measurements at the Arctic LTER Site.- 18. Basic Models in Epidemiology.- 19. The Invisible Present.- 20. Interpreting Explanatory Processes for Time Series Patterns: Lessons from Three Time Series.

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