Long-Term Ecological Research : Between Theory and Application - Müller, Felix; Baessler, Cornelia; Schubert, Hendrik; Klotz, Stefan; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010)
Long-Term Ecosystem Research Between Theory and Application - An Introduction -- The Significance of Ecological Long-Term Processes -- Theoretical Demands for Long-Term Ecological Research and the Management of Long-Term Data Sets -- Long-Term Ecosystem Dynamics: Theoretical Concepts of Environmental Change -- The Scientific Potential of Environmental Monitoring -- 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 Multi-Functional and Multi-Scale 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 -- Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes: 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 Implications for the Conservation of Rivers -- Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes: 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 Species Diversity 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 -- Concepts and Results: Presenting and Interpreting Long-Term Ecological Processes: Linking Research and Applications -- Monitoring of Ecosystems: Two Different Approaches - Long-Term Observation Versus Success Control -- National Parks as Model Regions for Interdisciplinary 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 -- 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 -- Conclusions -- On the Way to an Integrative Long-Term Ecosystem Research - Milestones, Challenges, and some Conclusions.
Keywords: Environment; Ecology .; Environmental monitoring; Geographical information systems; Statistics .; Sociology; Environment, general; Ecology; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis; Geographical Information Systems/Cartography.; Statistical Theory and Methods; Sociology, general