Data Analysis in Community and Landscape Ecology

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-0-521-47574-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 321 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 528 g

Ecological data has several special properties: the presence or absence of species on a semi-quantitative abundance scale; non-linear relationships between species and environmental factors; and high inter-correlations among species and among environmental variables. The analysis of such data is important to the interpretation of relationships within plant and animal communities and with their environments. In this corrected version of Data Analysis in Community and Landscape Ecology, without using complex mathematics, the contributors demonstrate the methods that have proven most useful, with examples, exercises and case-studies. Chapters explain in an elementary way powerful data analysis techniques such as logic regression, canonical correspondence analysis, and kriging.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jongman, R. H. G.

Braak, C. J. F. Ter

Tongeren, O. F. R. van

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltüberwachung, Umweltanalytik, Umweltinformatik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Soziophysik, Wirtschaftsphysik
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Umweltgeologie, Geoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Geologie Paläoökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of contributors; Preface to first edition; Acknowledgement; List of symbols; Dune meadow data; 1. Introduction R. H. G. Jongman; 2. Data collection J. C. Jager and C. W. N. Looman; 3. Regression C. J. F. ter Braak and C. W. N. Looman; 4. Calibration C. J. F. ter Braak; 5. Ordination C. J. F. ter Braak; 6. Cluster analysis O. F. R. van Tongeren; 7. Spatial aspects of ecological data P. A. Burrough; 8. Numerical methods in practice: case-studies P. A. Burrough, J. A. F. Oudhof, A. Barendregt, R. H. G. Jongman and T. J. van de Nes; References; Index.