TY - BOOK ID - 8284396 TI - Long-term ecological research : between theory and application PY - 2010 SN - 9400796692 9048187818 9786612926297 9048187826 1282926292 PB - New York : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Ecology -- Research -- Case studies. KW - Ecology -- Research. KW - Ecology KW - Earth & Environmental Sciences KW - Environmental Sciences KW - Research KW - Research. KW - Ecological research KW - Environment. KW - Geographical information systems. KW - Ecology. KW - Statistics. KW - Sociology. KW - Environment, general. KW - Environmental Monitoring/Analysis. KW - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography. KW - Statistical Theory and Methods. KW - Sociology, general. KW - Environmental sciences. KW - Mathematical statistics. KW - Monitoring/Environmental Analysis. KW - Mathematics KW - Statistical inference KW - Statistics, Mathematical KW - Statistics KW - Probabilities KW - Sampling (Statistics) KW - Geographical information systems KW - GIS (Information systems) KW - Information storage and retrieval systems KW - Balance of nature KW - Biology KW - Bionomics KW - Ecological processes KW - Ecological science KW - Ecological sciences KW - Environment KW - Environmental biology KW - Oecology KW - Environmental sciences KW - Population biology KW - Environmental science KW - Science KW - Statistical methods KW - Geography KW - Ecology . KW - Environmental monitoring. KW - Statistics . KW - Statistical analysis KW - Statistical data KW - Statistical science KW - Econometrics KW - Biomonitoring (Ecology) KW - Ecological monitoring KW - Environmental quality KW - Monitoring, Environmental KW - Applied ecology KW - Environmental engineering KW - Pollution KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences KW - Measurement KW - Monitoring UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:8284396 AB - 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. 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. Concepts and results of case studies in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems are discussed. The different time dimensions, as well as scales from the community and ecosystems up to the landscape scale are included. Finally, research is linked with application in different fields of ecology, and urgent future infrastructural, methodological and research demands and challenges are described. This book will be of interest not only to ecologists, conservation biologists, biodiversity scientists and environmentalists, but also to administrators of protected areas and natural resource managers. ER -