Long-term Ecological Research

Ecosystems change on a multitude of spatial and temporal scales. While analyses of ecosystem dynamics in short timespans have received much attention, the impacts of changes in the long term have, to a great extent, been neglected, provoking a lack of information and methodological know-how in this area. This book fills this gap by focusing on studies dealing with the investigation of complex, long-term ecological processes with regard to global change, the development of early warning systems, and the acquisition of a scientific basis for strategic conservation management and the sustainable use of ecosystems. Within this book, theoretical ecological questions of long-term processes, as well as an international dimension of long-term monitoring, observations and research are brought together. The outcome is an overview on different aspects of long-term ecological research. Aquatic, as well as terrestrial ecosystems are represented.

ISBN 9048187818   Pages 473 ISBN13 9789048187812 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 1318 Publisher Springer   Published in Dordrecht Imprint Springer   Height (mm) 260 Format Hardback   Width (mm) 193 Publication date 01 Apr 2010   Spine width (mm) 30 DEWEY 577.072   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC22

Part I		Introduction		1
1		Long-Term Ecosystem Research Between Theory and Application - An Introduction by Hendrik Schubert		3
Part II		The Significance of Ecological Long-Term Processes		9
2		Theoretical Demands for Long-Term Ecological Research and the Management of Long-Term Data Sets by Michael Bredemeier		11
3		Long-Term Ecosystem Dynamics: Theoretical Concepts of Environmental Change by Felix Muller		27
4		The Scientific Potential of Environmental Monitoring by Rolf Karez		39
Part III		Exploring Long-Term Processes: International Experience		57
5		Twenty-Eight Years of the US-LTER Program: Experience, Results, and Research Questions by John J. Magnuson		59
6		Introducing the Next Generation of Ecosystem Research in Europe: LTER-Europe's Multi-Functional and Multi-Scale Approach by Michael Mirtl		75
7		The Role of Ecosystem Modelling for Long-Term Ecological Research by Bernhard Luther		95
8		The Role of Statistics for Long-Term Ecological Research by Bernhard Luther		107
9		The Role of Remote Sensing in LTER Projects by Jonathan Chipman		131
Part IV		Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes: Aquatic Ecosystem Research		143
10		Long-Term Ecological Change in the Northern Wadden Sea by Karsten Reise		145
11		Long-Term Model Simulation of Environmental Conditions to Identify Externally Forced Signals in Biological Time Series by Karen H. Wiltshire		155
12		Long-Term Investigations in Brackish Ecosystems by Kevin G. Sellner		163
13		Long-Term Ecological Research in Freshwater Ecosystems by Jan Kohler		179
14		Long-Term Monitoring in Rivers of South Germany Since the 1970s - Macrophytes as Indicators for the Assessment of Water Quality and Its Implications for the Conservation of Rivers by Alexander Kohler		189
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