Real world ecology : large-scale and long-term case studies and methods / ShiLi Miao, Susan Carstenn, Martha Nungesser, editors ; foreword by Stephen R. Carpenter
Foreword -- Introduction -- Structural Equation Modeling and Ecological Experiments -- Approaches to Predicting Broad-scale Regime Shifts Using Changing Pattern-process Relationship Across Scales -- Integrating Multiple Spatial Controls and Temporal Sampling Schemes to Explore Short- and Long-term Ecosystem Response to Fire in an Everglades Wetland -- Assessing and Monitoring Fire Effects in Western Forests: Statistical Challenges and Opportunities -- Bayesian Hierarchical/Multilevel Models for Inference and Prediction Using Cross-Sectional Lake Data -- Avian Spatial Responses to Forest Spatial Heterogeneity at the Landscape Level: Conceptual and Statistical Challenges -- The Role of Paleoecology in Whole-Ecosystem Experiments -- Identifying Pre-Impacted Reference Conditions from Multiple Spatial and Temporal Sources -- A Spatially-Explicit, Mass-Balance Analysis of Watershed-Scale Controls on Lake Chemistry -- Gradual Global Environmental Change in the Real World and Step Manipulative Experiments in Laboratory and Field: The Necessity of Inverse Analysis -- Ecology in Real World: The Way Forward
Summary
This volume focuses on case studies to demonstrate how ecologists can investigate complex contemporary problems using new and powerful experimental approaches. The collection of case studies showcases innovative experimental designs, analytical options and interpretation possibilities currently available
