Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxx, 373 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
023152904X
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0231114982
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0231114990
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0231504934
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9780231529044
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9780231114981
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9780231114998
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9780231504935
Series Statement:
Complexity in ecological systems series
Content:
Annotation, This book discusses the impact of recent advances in the theory of "scaling relationships" and identifies critical issues that must be considered if experimental results are used to understand the temporal and spatial scales of actual ecosystems. The complexity of ecosystems complicates experimental design. How, for example, does a scientist draw boundaries when studying species effects and interactions? Once these boundaries are drawn, how does one treat factors external to that study? Will the failure to consider external factors affect one's ability to extrapolate information across temporal and spatial scales? This volume provides a compilation from a broad range of ecologists with extensive experimental research experience that addresses these and other questions of scaling relations
Note:
Includes bibliographical references
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Scale-Dependence and the Problem of Extrapolation: Implications for Experimental and Natural Coastal Ecosystems
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Experiments and Scale: Key Concepts ; Theory of Scaling Relations ; Scaling Relations in Natural and Experimental Ecosystems ; Scaling Experimental Ecosystems: Approaches and Examples ; Scaling Theory ; Understanding the Problem of Scale in Experimental Ecology
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Experiments in Ecology ; Scale in Ecology ; Dealing with Scale ; Scaling Organism Responses ; The Nature of the Scale Issue in Experimentation
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Assumptions and Predictions ; Analog and Digital Experimentation ; Experiments and Description ; Assumptions and What Is Reasonable ; Experimentation to Achieve New Levels of Analysis ; Spatial Allometry: Theory and Application to Experimental and Natural Aquatic Ecosystems
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Scaled Quantities and Scope ; Similarity, Scaling Theory, and Scaling Functions ; Application: Primary Production in Lakes ; Application: Fish Catch from Lakes ; Application: Biomass Accumulation in Mesocosms ; Application: Primary Production in Mesocosms ; Scaling Theory: Spatial Allometry for Antagonistic Rates ; Application: Adult-Juvenile Interactions in Benthic Communities ; Application to Mesocosm Analysis ; Scaling Mesocosms to Nature ; Getting It Right and Wrong: Extrapolations Across Experimental Scales
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Successful Extrapolation: An Example ; Comparative Frameworks.
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In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Scaling relations in experimental ecology New York : Columbia University Press, ©2001
Language:
English
Subjects:
Biology
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