Long-term ecological research
Subtitle: between theory and application
By: Felix Müller ... [et al.], editors
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 456
ISBN-13: 9789048187812; 9789048187829
Subjects: Research; Ecology; Case studies
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Long-term ecosystem research between theory and application - an introduction / Felix Müller ... [et al.]; title: Theoretical demands for long-term ecological research and the management of long-term data sets / Felix Müller ... [et al.]; title: Long-term ecosystem dynamics : theoretical concepts of environmental change / Brian D. Fath and Felix Müller; title: The scientific potential of environmental monitoring / Claus-G. Schimming, Sabine Augustin, and Rolf Karez; title: Twenty-eight years of the US-LTER Program : experience, results, and research questions / James R. Gosz, Robert B. Waide, and John J. Magnuson; title: Introducing the next generation of ecosystem research in Europe : LTER-Europe's multi-functional and multi-scale approach / Michael Mirtl; title: The role of ecosystem modelling for long-term ecological research / Albrecht Gnauck, Sven E. Jørgensen, and Bernhard Luther; title: The role of statistics for long-term ecological research / Albrecht Gnauck ... [et al.]; title: The role of remote sensing in LTER projects / Patrick Hostert ... [et al.]; title: Long-term ecological change in the northern Wadden Sea / Justus E.E. van Beusekom ... [et al.]; title: Long-term model simulation of environmental conditions to identify externally forced signals in biological time series / Karina Stockmann ... [et al.]; title: Long-term investigations in brackish ecosystems / Hendrik Schubert, Norbert Wasmund, and Kevin G. Sellner; title: Long-term ecological research in freshwater ecosystems / Jan Köhler; title: Long-term monitoring in rivers of South Germany since the 1970s - macrophytes as indicators for the assessment of water quality and its implications for the conservation of rivers / Peter Poschlod ... [et al.]; title: Long-term observations of soil mesofauna / Hartmut Koehler and Viesturs Melecis; title: Tracing biogeochemical processes in small catchments using non-linear methods / Gunnar Lischeid, Pavel Krám, and Christina Weyer; title: Long-term measurements to quantify the impact of arable management practices on deep seepage and nitrate leaching / Uwe Schindler ... [et al.]; title: Long-term ecosystem research in a beech forest of northern Germany / Filipa Tavares ... [et al.]; title: A conceptual framework for integrated functional landscape monitoring in the wider countryside of Central Europe / Ralf-Uwe Syrbe ... [et al.]; title: Temporal changes and spatial determinants of plant species diversity and genetic variation / Cornelia Baessler, Stefan Klotz, and Walter Durka; title: Integration of long-term environmental data by the example of the UNECE heavy metals in mosses survey in Germany : application of a WebGIS-based metadata system / Gunther Schmidt ... [et al.]; title: Monitoring of ecosystems : two different approaches - long-term observation versus success control / Vera Luthardt; title: National parks as model regions for interdisciplinary long-term ecological research : the Bavarian Forest and Šumavá national parks underway to transboundary ecosystem research / Marco Heurich ... [et al.]; title: Turning long-term monitoring into policy - using the National Park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea as an example / Britta Diederichs; title: Design and importance of multi-tiered ecological monitoring networks / K. Bruce Jones ... [et al.]; title: Conceptualising long-term socio-ecological research (LTSER) : integrating the social dimension / Simron J. Singh ... [et al.]; title: Integrating social sciences into long-term ecological research / Cornelia Ohl and Scott M. Swinton; title: Ecosystem manipulation and restoration on the basis of long-term conceptions / Oliver Dilly ... [et al.]; title: Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research / Markus Fischer ... [et al.]; title: On the way to an integrative long-term ecosystem research - milestones, challenges, and some conclusions / Felix Müller ... [et al.].