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Time Series Compared Across the Land-Sea Gradient

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The environmental sciences of ecology, limnology, and oceanography are relatively young. Until recently, emphasis has been placed on short-term inquiry into structure and function of physical, chemical, and biotic entities and processes. Relatively few studies have been sustained longer than 10 years, but the exceptions have revealed a seemingly ever-increasing range of system behaviors, associated with cascades of time scales.

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Warner, S.C. et al. (1992). Time Series Compared Across the Land-Sea Gradient. In: Powell, T.M., Steele, J.H. (eds) Ecological Time Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1769-6_14

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