The Challenges Of Long Term Ecological Research A Historical Analysis

Author : Robert B. Waide,Sharon E. Kingsland
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 478 pages
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Release : 2021-04-07
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030669331

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The Challenges of Long Term Ecological Research: A Historical Analysis by Robert B. Waide,Sharon E. Kingsland Pdf

This volume explores the challenges of sustaining long-term ecological research through a historical analysis of the Long Term Ecological Research Program created by the U.S. National Science Foundation in 1980. The book examines reasons for the creation of the Program, an overview of its 40-year history, and in-depth historical analysis of selected sites. Themes explored include the broader impact of this program on society, including its relevance to environmental policy and understanding global climate change, the challenge of extending ecosystem ecology into urban environments, and links to creative arts and humanities projects. A major theme is the evolution of a new type of network science, involving comparative studies, innovation in information management, creation of socio-ecological frameworks, development of governance structures, and formation of an International Long Term Ecological Research Network with worldwide reach. The book’s themes will interest historians, philosophers and social scientists interested in ecological and environmental sciences, as well as researchers across many disciplines who are involved in long-term ecological research.

Author : Michael R. Willig,Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199380220

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Long-Term Ecological Research by Michael R. Willig,Lawrence R. Walker Pdf

The Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program is, in a sense, an experiment to transform the nature of science, and represents one of the most effective mechanisms for catalyzing comprehensive site-based research that is collaborative, multidisciplinary, and long-term in nature. The scientific contributions of the Program are prodigious, but the broader impacts of participation have not been examined in a formal way. This book captures the consequences of participation in the Program on the perspectives, attitudes, and practices of environmental scientists. The edited volume comprises three sections. The first section includes two chapters that provide an overview of the history, goals, mission, and inner workings of the LTER network of sites. The second section comprises three dozen retrospective essays by scientists, data managers or educators who represent a broad spectrum of LTER sites from deserts to tropical forests and from arctic to marine ecosystems. Each essay addresses the same series of probing questions to uncover the extent to which participation has affected the ways that scientists conduct research, educate students, or provide outreach to the public. The final section encompasses 5 chapters, whose authors are biophysical scientists, historians, behavioral scientists, or social scientists. This section analyzes, integrates, or synthesizes the content of the previous chapters from multiple perspectives and uncovers emergent themes and future directions.

Author : Simron Jit Singh,Helmut Haberl,Marian Chertow,Michael Mirtl,Martin Schmid
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789400711778

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Long Term Socio-Ecological Research by Simron Jit Singh,Helmut Haberl,Marian Chertow,Michael Mirtl,Martin Schmid Pdf

The authors in this volume make a case for LTSER’s potential in providing insights, knowledge and experience necessary for a sustainability transition. This expertly edited selection of contributions from Europe and North America reviews the development of LTSER since its inception and assesses its current state, which has evolved to recognize the value of formulating solutions to the host of ecological threats we face. Through many case studies, this book gives the reader a greater sense of where we are and what still needs to be done to engage in and make meaning from long-term, place-based and cross-disciplinary engagements with socio-ecological systems.

Author : Felix Müller,Cornelia Baessler,Hendrik Schubert,Stefan Klotz
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-21
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789048187829

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Long-Term Ecological Research by Felix Müller,Cornelia Baessler,Hendrik Schubert,Stefan Klotz Pdf

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.

Author : International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Science
ISBN : UCSD:31822005693239

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Long-term Ecological Research by International Council of Scientific Unions. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment Pdf

An examination of long-term ecological studies. The contributors describe existing international long-term research efforts, evaluate facilitating mechanisms, propose important research questions that require international co-operation and discuss technologies designed to assist in this.

Author : Michael R. Willig,Lawrence R. Walker
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780199380213

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Long-term Ecological Research by Michael R. Willig,Lawrence R. Walker Pdf

Changing the Nature of Scientists : Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program / Michael R. Willig and Lawrence R. Walker -- Sustaining Long-Term Research : Collaboration, Multidisciplinarity and Synthesis in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program / Robert B. Waide -- Reflections on LTER from NSF Program Directors' Perspectives / Henry L. Gholz, Robert Marinelli, and Phillip R. Taylor -- Streams and Dreams and Cross Site Studies / Sherri L. Johnson -- Data, Data Everywhere / Susan G. Stafford -- Science, Citizenship, and Humanities in the Ancient Forest of Andrews / Frederick J. Swanson -- Bridging Community and Ecosystem Ecology at the Arctic LTER Site via Collaborations / Laura Gough -- LTER in the Arctic : Where Science Never Sleeps / John E. Hobbie -- Forty Arctic Summers / Gaius R. Shaver -- Of Fish and Platypus : If You Could Ask a Fish What It Feels Like to Swim? / J. Morgan Grove -- Long-Term Ecological Research on the Urban Frontier : Benefiting from Baltimore / Steward T.A. Pickett -- Beneficiary of a Changed Paradigm : Perspectives of a "Next-Generation" Scientist / Elizabeth T. Borer -- Listening to Nature and Letting Data Be Trump / David Tilman -- The Socializing of an Ecosystem Ecologist : Interdisciplinarity from a Career Spent in the LTER Network / Daniel L. Childers -- An Urban Ecological Journey / Nancy B. Grimm -- An Anthropologist Joins the LTER Network / Ted L. Gragson -- The Benefits of Long-Term Environmental Research, Friendships, and Boiled Peanuts / Evelyn E. Gaiser -- Collaboration and Broadening Our Scope : Relevance of LTER Science to the Global Community / Tiffany G. Troxler -- A Dryland Ecologist's Mid-Career Retrospective on LTER and the Science-management Interface / Brandon Bestelmeyer -- Tales from an LTER "Lifer" / Debra P.C. Peters -- A Forest to Prairie Transition as an LTER Scientist / John Blair --Growing-Up with the Konza Prairie LTER Program / Alan K. Knapp -- Born and Bred in the LTER Network : Perspectives on Network Science and Global Collaboration / Melinda D. Smith -- Confessions of a Fungal Systematist / D. Jean Lodge -- A Glimpse of the Tropics Through Odum's Macroscope / Ariel E. Lugo -- Taking the Long View : Growing Up in the LTER / Whendee L. Silver -- Kelp Forests, Coral Reefs, and the LTER Program : Synergies and Impacts on a Scientific Career / Sally J. Holbrook -- The LTER Construct for Understanding Dynamics of Coral Reef Ecosystems and Its Influence on My Science / Russell J. Schmitt -- Top of the World Collaborations : Lessons from Above Treeline / Katharine N. Suding -- My Evolution as an LTER Scientist / John J. Magnuson -- Learning from a Frozen Ocean : The Changing Face of Antarctic Ocean Ecology / Hugh W. Ducklow -- Mysteries in the Marsh / Anne Giblin -- Perspectives on a 30-Year Career of Salt Marsh Research / James T. Morris -- Evolution of an Information Manager / Margaret O?Brien -- From LTER to NSF and Back : A Personal History of LTER Science and Management / Scott L. Collins -- The LTER Stimulus : Research, Education, and Leadership Development at Individual and Community Levels / James R. Gosz -- LTER and Lessons from Networked Lives / John C. Moore -- Networking : From LTER to NEON / Bruce P. Hayden -- Sharing Information : Many Hands Make Light Work / John H. Porter -- Coda : Some Reflections on the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program / William H. Schlesinger -- Scholarly Learning in an Ecological Setting : Applying the Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors Framework to Perceived Outcomes from Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research Program / Mark A. Boyer and Scott W. Brown -- Exploring the Scientific and Beyond : Science Interactions of LTER Scientists / Courtney G. Flint -- Long-Term Ecological Research over the Long Term : An Historian's Perspective / Christopher Hamlin -- Tradeoffs of Participation in the Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Program : Immediate and Long-Term Consequences / Lawrence R. Walker and Michael R. Willig

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9048187834

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na by Anonim Pdf

Author : Tong Lee,Sabrina Speich,Laura Lorenzoni,Sanae Chiba,Frank E. Muller-Karger,Minhan Dai,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,John Siddorn,Justin Manley,Maria Snoussi ,Fei Chai
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889631186

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Oceanobs'19: An Ocean of Opportunity. Volume I by Tong Lee,Sabrina Speich,Laura Lorenzoni,Sanae Chiba,Frank E. Muller-Karger,Minhan Dai,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,John Siddorn,Justin Manley,Maria Snoussi ,Fei Chai Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : Tong Lee,Sabrina Speich,Laura Lorenzoni,Sanae Chiba,Frank E. Muller-Karger,Minhan Dai,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,John Siddorn,Justin Manley,Maria Snoussi,Fei Chai
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 867 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-31
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889631209

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Oceanobs'19: An Ocean of Opportunity. Volume III by Tong Lee,Sabrina Speich,Laura Lorenzoni,Sanae Chiba,Frank E. Muller-Karger,Minhan Dai,Amos T. Kabo-Bah,John Siddorn,Justin Manley,Maria Snoussi,Fei Chai Pdf

This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.

Author : David Greenland,Douglas G. Goodin,Raymond C. Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2003-10-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780190287832

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Climate Variability and Ecosystem Response at Long-Term Ecological Research Sites by David Greenland,Douglas G. Goodin,Raymond C. Smith Pdf

This volume in the Long-Term Ecological Research Network Series would present the work that has been done and the understanding and database that have been developed by work on climate change done at all the LTER sites. Global climate change is a central issue facing the world, which is being worked on by a very large number of scientists across a wide range of fields. The LTER sites hold some of the best available data measuring long term impacts and changes in the environment, and the research done at these sites has not previously been made widely available to the broader climate change research community. This book should appeal reasonably widely outside the ecological community, and because it pulls together information from all 20 research sites, it should capture the interest of virtually the entire LTER research community.

Author : Guillaume Decocq
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781394169757

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Historical Ecology by Guillaume Decocq Pdf

This book addresses present-day landscapes, ecosystem functioning and biodiversity as legacies of the past. It implements an interdisciplinary approach to understand how natural or human-impacted ecological systems have changed over time. Historical Ecology combines theory, methods, regional case studies and syntheses to provide a complete up-to-date overview of historical ecology. Beginning with the crucial role of time and inference from observed patterns, the book critically reviews the main methodological approaches, including monitoring of permanent plots, analysis of old maps, repeat photography, remote sensing, soil analysis, charcoal analysis, botanical indicators, and combinations of these methods applied to forest ecosystems. A series of case studies from various biomes shows how historical ecology can help in understanding today’s socio-ecosystems, such as mainland and island forests, orchards, tundra and coastal dunes. The book concludes by showing how historical ecology can answer timely fundamental research questions and provide science-based evidence for landscape and ecosystem management.

Author : Anne Rademacher,K. Sivaramakrishnan
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789888390595

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Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism by Anne Rademacher,K. Sivaramakrishnan Pdf

If twenty-first-century urbanization is understood as a problem, its regional epicenter is the cities in Asia. Facing unprecedented diversity in scale, scope, and environmental dynamics in the Asian urban experience, scholars will need an approach that can truly capture the significance of place and context. The challenge, as this volume illustrates, can be met by the analytic of ecologies of urbanism. Eschewing a rigid, single ecology, the contributors identify multiple forms of nature—in biophysical, cultural, and political terms—that have discernable impact on power relations and human social action. The case studies in this book—including leopards in Mumbai, a network of tubewells in northern India, an island that grows through reclamation in Hong Kong, and a railway continuum linking Khon Kaen and Bangkok—all attest to the versatility of ecologies of urbanism. Guided by urban processes rather than geopolitical boundaries, Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism offers a picture of urban Asia that is composed of varied ecologies of urbanism. “This intellectually adventurous work displays a deep cultural-ethical sensibility in its close attention to geographically variegated forms of place making. A first-rate contribution to urban scholarship on Asia and beyond.” —Vinay K. Gidwani, Department of Geography, Environment and Society and Institute for Global Studies, University of Minnesota “This volume derives from a several-year collaborative effort to bring scholars from different disciplines together to reflect on the constructed, shifting, and contested meanings of the forward-slash separating Urban/Natures. The essays in this volume are bold, rigorous, original, and sometimes even witty. Without losing track of the intellectual genealogies that enable their collective effort, the authors in Places of Nature in Ecologies of Urbanism give us new tools for imagining urban Asia’s possible futures.” —William Glover, Department of History, University of Michigan

Author : Raf de Bont,Jens Lachmund
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351750929

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Spatializing the History of Ecology by Raf de Bont,Jens Lachmund Pdf

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: Knowing Nature, Making Space -- PART I: Crafting Zones and Regions -- 2 Mapping Heimat: Amateur Natural History and Plant Ecology in Imperial Germany -- 3 Life Zones: The Rise and Decline of a Theory of the Geographic Distribution of Species -- 4 A Laboratory for Tropical Ecology: Colonial Models and American Science at Cinchona, Jamaica -- 5 Field Stations and the Problem of Scale: Local, Regional, and Global at the Desert Lab -- 6 Ecology and Rehabilitation: The West Highland Survey, 1944-1955 -- PART II: Modelling Systems -- 7 Ecosystem Simulation as a Practice of Emplacement: The Desert Biome Project, 1970-1974 -- 8 The City as Ecosystem: Paul Duvigneaud and the Ecological Study of Brussels -- PART III: Fashioning Objects of Conservation -- 9 Extinct in the Wild: Finding a Place for the European Bison, 1919-1952 -- 10 Islands and Bioregions: Global Reserve Design Models and the Making of National Parks, 1960-2000 -- 11 Space, Place, Land, and Sea: The "Ecological Discovery" of the Global Wadden Sea -- 12 Epilogue -- Index.

Author : Andrew C. Isenberg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 801 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190673482

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The Oxford Handbook of Environmental History by Andrew C. Isenberg Pdf

This book explores the methodology of environmental history, with an emphasis on the field's interaction with other historiographies such as consumerism, borderlands, and gender. It examines the problem of environmental context, specifically the problem and perception of environmental determinism, by focusing on climate, disease, fauna, and regional environments. It also considers the changing understanding of scientific knowledge.

Author : ShiLi Miao,Susan Carstenn,Martha Nungesser
Publisher : Springer
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0387779418

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Real World Ecology by ShiLi Miao,Susan Carstenn,Martha Nungesser Pdf

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.