Overview
- Fills a gap, as most literature deals with short-term monitoring
- Studies provide a snap-shot of the range of methods and practices in use in long-term ecosystem research today
- The international dimension of long-term monitoring, observations and research are brought together
- Promotes a better application of scientific methodology in environmental practice
- Demonstrates the high significance of long-term oriented research questions
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Table of contents (30 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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The Significance of Ecological Long-Term Processes
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Exploring Long-Term Processes: International Experience
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Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes: Aquatic Ecosystem Research
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Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes: Terrestrial Ecosystem Research
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About this book
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.
Reviews
From the reviews:
“Each of the 30 chapters (written by 104 authors) deals with the conceptual issue of long-term research … . The book can serve as a source of arguments and ideas for grant proposals of those who are preparing any monitoring, as even short-term monitoring might be repeated in future and become long-term. The book is an excellent source of flow charts incorporating different scales, ecosystems subjects methods, etc … .” (Jitka Klimešová, Folia Geobot, Vol. 47, 2012)Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Long-Term Ecological Research
Book Subtitle: Between Theory and Application
Editors: Felix Müller, Cornelia Baessler, Hendrik Schubert, Stefan Klotz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8782-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8781-2Published: 05 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-9669-0Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8782-9Published: 21 June 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 456
Topics: Environment, general, Ecology, Monitoring/Environmental Analysis, Geographical Information Systems/Cartography, Statistical Theory and Methods, Sociology, general