Long-Term Ecological Research

by Muller, Felix; Baessler, Cornelia; Schubert, Hendrik; Klotz, Stefan

• ISBN13: 9789048187812
• ISBN10: 9048187818
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-08-20
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

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. Within this book, 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.