Overview
- First book specific to the discipline of Landscape Ecology dealing explicitly with the issue of experimentation
- Includes annotated 'resources' section, detailing software packages, tools and techniques and further reading
- Illustrated with examples from different systems around the world
Part of the book series: Landscape Series (LAEC, volume 29)
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About this book
This book offers the first guide to landscape ecologists on the art and science of doing experiments, both observational and manipulative. How do you conduct an experiment when your study subject is as big as a landscape? Issues of scale, spatial heterogeneity and limitations on replication may challenge scientists seeking to carry out robust experiments in landscape ecology.
Beginning with an overview of the history and philosophy of the scientific method, and tracing the development of experimental approaches in ecology broadly, the first half of the book discusses the broader issues of what makes a good experiment. Individual chapters describe unique aspects of landscape ecology that present challenges to experimentation, with suggestions for solutions on issues of scale, and how to apply controls, randomization and adequate replication in a landscape setting.
The second half of the book describes different kinds of landscape ecology experimental approaches including:
- large-scale manipulations
- experimental model landscapes
- mesocosms and microcosms
- in silico experiments
- novel landscapes
Each chapter describes the advantages and disadvantages of each approach, and identifies the types of landscape ecology concepts and questions that a research can address. Examples from around the world, in a myriad of different environments, help to illustrate the ideas in each chapter.
Together with an annotated resources section, this book aims to stimulate ideas and inspire creativity for graduate students and early career researchers who want to conduct better experiments in landscape ecology.
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophy and Concepts of Experimentation
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Approaches to Experimentation
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Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Yolanda Wiersma is a professor in the Department of Biology at Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador. She conducts research in landscape ecology of the Canadian boreal forest.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Experimental Landscape Ecology
Authors: Yolanda F. Wiersma
Series Title: Landscape Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95189-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95188-7Published: 08 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95191-7Published: 09 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95189-4Published: 07 April 2022
Series ISSN: 1572-7742
Series E-ISSN: 1875-1210
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 217
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Landscape Ecology, Applied Ecology, Research Skills, Terrestial Ecology, Theoretical Ecology/Statistics