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Title: Multiple Scales in Ecology

Multiple Scales in Ecology

by Boris Schröder (Volume editor) Hauke Reuter (Volume editor) Björn Reineking (Volume editor)
©2008 Edited Collection XII, 123 Pages
Science, Society & Culture
Series: Theorie in der Ökologie, Volume 13

Summary

The scale dependence of ecological processes and patterns, as well as their analysis is a long-standing theme in ecology. The problem of scaling has three components: (i) direct measurements are commonly limited to small scales in time and space, (ii) the most pressing problems have to be addressed at comparatively large scales, but (iii) direct upscaling fails when local processes differ from those relevant at larger scales. The contributions collected in this volume evolved from the workshop ‘Multiple Scales in Ecology’, held in March 2005 at Seddinger See near Potsdam in Germany. The book is organized along four major themes: scale-dependent pattern formation, scale identification, multiscale analysis, and scaling in applications.

Details

Pages
XII, 123
Year
2008
ISBN (Softcover)
9783631571347
Language
English
Keywords
Bezugsgröße Ökologie Forschung Ecology Scale Scaling
Published
Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2007. XII, 123 pp., num. fig., tables and graphs

Biographical notes

Boris Schröder (Volume editor) Hauke Reuter (Volume editor) Björn Reineking (Volume editor)

The Editors: Boris Schröder is «Wissenschaftlicher Assistent» at the Institute of Geoecology, University of Potsdam (Germany). His research focuses on statistical and process-based ecological modelling, quantitative landscape ecology and conservation biology. Hauke Reuter was «Wissenschaftlicher Assistent» in the Department of General and Theoretical Ecology, University of Bremen (Germany). His research is dedicated to the modelling of ecological complexity which individual based models comprising food web interactions, dispersal processes and environmental risks of genetically modified plants. Björn Reineking is PostDoc at the Chair of Forest Ecology, ETH Zürich (Switzerland). His research focuses on the mechanisms determining the distribution of species at a range of spatial scales, using both statistical and dynamic simulation models.

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