Long-Term Ecological Research Between Theory and Application /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: M<U+00fc>ller, Felix. (Editor), Baessler, Cornelia. (Editor), Schubert, Hendrik. (Editor), Klotz, Stefan. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Subjects: Environmental sciences.; Geographical information systems.; Ecology.; Mathematical statistics.; Environment.; Environment, general.; Environmental Monitoring/Analysis.; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Sociology, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8782-9

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...

Table of Contents:

• From the contents Part I: Introduction
• Part II: The Significance of Ecological Long-Term Processes
• Part III: Exploring Long-Term Processes: International Experience
• Part IV: Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes.-Section IV.1 Aquatic Ecosystem Research
• Section IV.2 Terrestrial Ecosystem Research
• Section IV.3 Linking Research and Applications
• Part V: Future Demands and Challenges
• Part VI: Conclusions.