Phenological Research: Methods for Environmental and Climate Change Analysis

✍ Scribed by Marie R. Keatley, Irene L. Hudson (auth.), Irene L. Hudson, Marie R. Keatley (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 524
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

As climate change continues to dominate the international environmental agenda, phenology – the study of the timing of recurring biological events – has received increasing research attention, leading to an emerging consensus that phenology can be viewed as an ‘early warning system’ for climate change impact.

A multidisciplinary science involving many branches of ecology, geography and remote sensing, phenology to date has lacked a coherent methodological text. This new synthesis, including contributions from many of the world’s leading phenologists, therefore fills a critical gap in the current biological literature. Providing critiques of current methods, as well as detailing novel and emerging methodologies, the book, with its extensive suite of references, provides readers with an understanding of both the theoretical basis and the potential applications required to adopt and adapt new analytical and design methods.

An invaluable source book for researchers and students in ecology and climate change science, the book also provides a useful reference for practitioners in a range of sectors, including human health, fisheries, forestry, agriculture and natural resource management.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction and Overview....Pages 1-22
Global Framework for Data Collection – Data Bases, Data Availability, Future Networks, Online Databases....Pages 23-61
Seasonality as a Core Business of Phenology....Pages 63-74
Societal adaptation Options to Changes in Phenology....Pages 75-98
The Influence of Sampling Method, Sample Size, and Frequency of Observations on Plant Phenological Patterns and Interpretation in Tropical Forest Trees....Pages 99-121
Regression and Causality....Pages 123-145
Combining Messy Phenological Time Series....Pages 147-158
Phenology for Topoclimatological Surveys and Large-Scale Mapping....Pages 159-175
Spatio-Temporal Statistical Methods for Modelling Land Surface Phenology....Pages 177-208
Climatic Influences on the Flowering Phenology of Four Eucalypts: A GAMLSS Approach....Pages 209-228
Bayesian Methods in Phenology....Pages 229-254
Smoothing Methods....Pages 255-269
Accounting for Correlated Error Structure Within Phenological Data: a Case Study of Trend Analysis of Snowdrop Flowering....Pages 271-298
Modelling the Flowering of Four Eucalypt Species Using New Mixture Transition Distribution Models....Pages 299-320
Life History Mediated Responses to Weather, Phenology and Large-Scale Population Patterns....Pages 321-338
Applications of Circular Statistics in Plant Phenology: a Case Studies Approach....Pages 339-359
Wavelet Analysis of Flowering and Climatic Niche Identification....Pages 361-391
Singular Spectrum Analysis: Climatic Niche Identification....Pages 393-424
Herbarium Collections and Photographic Images: Alternative Data Sources for Phenological Research....Pages 425-461
Meta-Analysis and Its Application in Phenological Research: a Review and New Statistical Approaches....Pages 463-509
Back Matter....Pages 511-521

✦ Subjects

Applied Ecology; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences; Environment, general; Climate Change