To see accurate pricing, please choose your delivery country.
 
 
United States
£ GBP
All Shops

British Wildlife

8 issues per year 84 pages per issue Subscription only

British Wildlife is the leading natural history magazine in the UK, providing essential reading for both enthusiast and professional naturalists and wildlife conservationists. Published eight times a year, British Wildlife bridges the gap between popular writing and scientific literature through a combination of long-form articles, regular columns and reports, book reviews and letters.

Subscriptions from £33 per year

Conservation Land Management

4 issues per year 44 pages per issue Subscription only

Conservation Land Management (CLM) is a quarterly magazine that is widely regarded as essential reading for all who are involved in land management for nature conservation, across the British Isles. CLM includes long-form articles, events listings, publication reviews, new product information and updates, reports of conferences and letters.

Subscriptions from £26 per year
Academic & Professional Books  Ecology  Ecological Theory & Practice

Long-Term Ecological Research Between Theory and Application

By: Felix Müller(Editor), Cornelia Baessler(Editor), Hendrik Schubert(Editor), Stefan Klotz(Editor)
456 pages, colour & b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Long-Term Ecological Research
Click to have a closer look
Select version
  • Long-Term Ecological Research ISBN: 9789400796690 Paperback Nov 2014 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £129.99
    #221617
  • Long-Term Ecological Research ISBN: 9789048187812 Hardback Jul 2010 Not in stock: Usually dispatched within 1-2 weeks
    £129.99
    #185308
Selected version: £129.99
About this book Contents Customer reviews Related titles

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. Long-Term Ecological Research: Between Theory and Application 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 Long-Term Ecological Research: Between Theory and Application, 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.

Contents

List of Contributors
Preface

Part I: Introduction
- Long-Term Ecosystem Research between Theory and Application – An Introduction

Part II: The Significance of Ecological Long-Term Processes
- Theoretical demands for Long-term ecosystem dynamics: Theoretical concepts of environmental changes for long-term ecological research and the management of long-term datasets
- The scientific potentials of environmental monitoring

Part III: Exploring Long-Term Processes: International Experience
- Twenty-eight years of the US-LTER Program: Experience, results, and research questions
- Introducing the next generation of ecosystem research in Europe: LTER
- Europe’s multifunctional and multiscale approach
- The role of ecosystem modelling for long-term ecological research
- The role of statistics for long-term ecological research
- The role of remote sensing in LTER projects

Part IV: Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes
Section IV-1 Aquatic Ecosystem Research
- Long-term ecological change in the Northern Wadden Sea
- Long-term model simulation of environmental conditions to identify externally forced signals in biological time series
- Long-term investigations in brackish ecosystems
- Long- term ecological research in freshwater ecosystems
- Long-term monitoring in rivers of south Germany since the 1970s – macrophytes as indicators for the assessment of water quality and its implication for the conservation of rivers

- Section IV-2 Terrestrial Ecosystem Research
- Long-term observations of soil mesofauna
- Tracing biogeochemical processes in small catchments using non-linear methods
- Long- term measurements to quantify the impact of arable management practices on deep seepage and nitrate leaching
- Long-term ecosystem research in a beech forest of Northern Germany
- A conceptual framework for integrated functional landscape monitoring in the wider countryside of Central Europe
- Temporal changes and spatial determinants of plant speciesdiversity and genetic variation
- 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

Section IV-3 Linking Research and Applications
- Monitoring of ecosystems: Two different approaches – long-term observation versus success control
- National Parks as model regions for inderdisciplinary long term ecological research: The Bavarian Forest and Šumavá National Parks underway to transboundary ecosystem research
- Turning long-term monitoring into policy – using the National park Schleswig-Holstein Wadden Sea as an example
- Design and importance of multi-tiered ecological monitoring networks

Part V: Future Demands and Challenges
- Conceptualising Long-Term Socio-Ecological Research (LTSER): Integrating the social dimension
- Integrating social sciences into long-term ecological research
- Ecosystem manipulation and restoration on the basis of long-term conceptions
- Exploratories for large-scale and long-term functional biodiversity research

Part VI: Conclusions
- On the Way to an Integrative Long-Term Ecosystem Research – Milestones, Challenges and some Conclusions

Index

Customer Reviews

By: Felix Müller(Editor), Cornelia Baessler(Editor), Hendrik Schubert(Editor), Stefan Klotz(Editor)
456 pages, colour & b/w illustrations, tables
Publisher: Springer Nature
Media 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

" [...] entsprechende Konzepte, Daten und Methoden zur Verfugung zu stellen. [...] einem Ausblick auf zukunftige Herausforderungen [...] Fur Forscher bietet das Buch einen umfassenden; vertieften Auberblick uber die verschiedenen Aspekte [...] insbesondere fur die jenigen interessant, die sich mit dem Fachgebiet als Ganzem intensiv auseinandersetzen [...] durchgehend auf Englisch verfasst, Zusammenfassende Abstracts und ein abschliessender Ausblick gehoren ebenso zum Standard wie ausfuhrliche Literaturangaben. Grafiken und Abbildungen sind teilweise mehrfarbig gehalten [...] der ein Vorbild fur andere Sammelbande sein konnte – runden den Band ab."
- Geookel Daniel Klein, in: Forum der Geookologie, 2010, Vol. 21, Issue 3, S. 62 f.

Current promotions
New and Forthcoming BooksNHBS Moth TrapBritish Wildlife MagazineBuyers Guides