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Ecological Data

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Informationen zum Autor William K. Michener and James W. Brunt are the authors of Ecological Data: Design, Management and Processing, published by Wiley. Klappentext Ecologists are increasingly tackling difficult issues like global change, loss of biodiversity and sustainability of ecosystem services. These and related questions are enormously challenging, requiring unprecedented multidisciplinary collaboration and rapid synthesis of large amounts of diverse data into information and ultimately knowledge. New sensors, computers, data collection and storage devices and analytical and statistical methods provide a powerful tool kit to support analyses, graphics and visualisations that were unthinkable even a few years ago. New and increased emphasis on accessibility, management, processing and sharing of high-quality, well-maintained and understandable data represents a significant change in how scientists view and treat data. These issues are complex and, despite their importance, are typically not addressed in database, ecological and statistical textbooks. This book addresses these issues, providing a much needed resource for those involved in designing and implementing ecological research, as well as students who are entering the environmental sciences. Chapters focus on the design of ecological studies, data management principles, scientific databases, data quality assurance, data documentation, archiving ecological data and information and processing data into information and knowledge. The book stops short of a detailed treatment of data analysis, but does provide pointers to the relevant literature in graphics, statistics and knowledge discovery. The central thesis of the book is that high quality data management systems are critical for addressing future environmental challenges, requiring a new approach to how we conduct ecological research, one that views data as a resource and promotes stewardship, recycling and sharing of data. Ecological Data will be particularly useful to those ecologists and information specialists that actively design, manage and analyse environmental databases, but will also benefit a wider audience of scientists and students in the ecological and environmental sciences. Zusammenfassung Ecologists are increasingly tackling difficult issues like global change! loss of biodiversity and sustainability of ecosystem services. These and related questions are enormously challenging! requiring unprecedented multidisciplinary collaboration and rapid synthesis of large amounts of diverse data into information and ultimately knowledge. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Research Design: Translating Ideas to Data. 2. Data Management Principles, Implementation. 3. Scientific Databases. 4. Data Quality Assurance. 5. Metadata. 6. Archiving Ecological Data and Information. 7. Transforming Data into Information and Knowledge. 8. Ecological Knowledge and Future Data Challenges ...

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Authors Joseph W Jones, Joseph W. Jones, Dr William K. Michener, William K Michener, William K. Michener
Assisted by James W Brunt (Editor), James W. Brunt (Editor), William K Michener (Editor), William K. Michener (Editor)
Publisher Blackwell Scientific Publishers Ltd
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.01.2008
 
EAN 9780632052318
ISBN 978-0-632-05231-8
No. of pages 192
Series Methods in Ecology
Ecological Methods and Concepts
Subjects Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Dictionaries, encyclopaedias

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