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Real World Ecology - Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods (Hardcover, 2009 ed.) Loot Price: R4,388
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Real World Ecology - Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods (Hardcover, 2009 ed.): Shili Miao, Susan Carstenn,...

Real World Ecology - Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods (Hardcover, 2009 ed.)

Shili Miao, Susan Carstenn, Martha Nungesser

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Ecological and environmental research has increased in scope and complexity in the last few decades, from simple systems with a few managed variables to complex ecosystems with many uncontrolled variables. These issues encompass problems that are inadequately addressed using the types of carefully controlled experiments that dominate past ecological research. Contemporary challenges facing ecologists include whole ecosystem responses to planned restoration activities and ecosystem modifications, as well as unplanned catastrophic events such as biological invasions, natural disasters, and global climate changes. Major perturbations implicated in large-scale ecological alterations share important characteristics that challenge traditional experimental design and statistical analyses. These include:

* Lack of randomization, replication and independence
* Multiple scales of spatial and temporal variability
* Complex interactions and system feedbacks

In real world ecology, standard replicated designs are often neither practical nor feasible for large-scale experiments, yet ecologists continue to cling to these same standard designs and related statistical analyses. Case studies that fully elucidate the currently available techniques for conducting large-scale unreplicated analyses are lacking.

Real World Ecology: Large-Scale and Long-Term Case Studies and Methods is the first to focus on case studies to demonstrate how ecologists can investigate complex contemporary problems using new and powerful experimental approaches. This collection of case studies showcases innovative experimental designs, analytical options, and interpretation possibilities currently available to theoretical and applied ecologists, practitioners, and biostatisticians. By illustrating how scientists have answered pressing questions about ecosystem restoration, impact and recovery, global warming, conservation, modeling, and biological invasions, this book will broaden the acceptance and application of modern approaches by scientists and encourage further methodological development.

About the Editors:

Dr. ShiLi Miao is Senior Supervising Scientist at the South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Division, West Palm Beach, FL. Dr. Susan Carstenn is
Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Hawai'i Pacific University, Kaneohe, HI. Dr. Martha Nungesser is Senior Environmental Scientist at the South Florida Water Management District, Everglades Division.

General

Imprint: Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin: United States
Release date: December 2008
First published: 2009
Editors: Shili Miao • Susan Carstenn • Martha Nungesser
Dimensions: 235 x 155 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 312
Edition: 2009 ed.
ISBN-13: 978-0-387-77941-6
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Life sciences: general issues > Ecological science, the Biosphere
Books > Earth & environment > The environment > Applied ecology > General
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LSN: 0-387-77941-8
Barcode: 9780387779416

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