Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Data Handling and Numerical Techniques

✍ Scribed by John P. Smol, H. John B. Birks, André F. Lotter, Steve Juggins (auth.), H. John B. Birks, André F. Lotter, Steve Juggins, John P. Smol (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 751
• Series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota through history. This book brings together a wide array of numerical and statistical techniques currently available for use in palaeolimnology and other branches of palaeoecology. ​

Visit http://extras.springer.com the Springer's Extras website to view data-sets, figures, software, and R scripts used or mentioned in this book.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
The March Towards the Quantitative Analysis of Palaeolimnological Data....Pages 3-17
Overview of Numerical Methods in Palaeolimnology....Pages 19-92
Data-Sets....Pages 93-97
Front Matter....Pages 99-99
Introduction and Overview of Part II....Pages 101-121
Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Display....Pages 123-141
Assessment of Uncertainties Associated with Palaeolimnological Laboratory Methods and Microfossil Analysis....Pages 143-166
Clustering and Partitioning....Pages 167-200
From Classical to Canonical Ordination....Pages 201-248
Statistical Learning in Palaeolimnology....Pages 249-327
Front Matter....Pages 329-329
Introduction and Overview of Part III....Pages 331-353
Analysis of Stratigraphical Data....Pages 355-378
Estimation of Age-Depth Relationships....Pages 379-413
Core Correlation....Pages 415-430
Quantitative Environmental Reconstructions from Biological Data....Pages 431-494
Analogue Methods in Palaeolimnology....Pages 495-522
Autocorrelogram and Periodogram Analyses of Palaeolimnological Temporal-Series from Lakes in Central and Western North America to Assess Shifts in Drought Conditions....Pages 523-548
Front Matter....Pages 549-549
Introduction and Overview of Part IV....Pages 551-555
Limnological Responses to Environmental Changes at Inter-annual to Decadal Time-Scales....Pages 557-578
Human Impacts: Applications of Numerical Methods to Evaluate Surface-Water Acidification and Eutrophication....Pages 579-614
Tracking Holocene Climatic Change with Aquatic Biota from Lake Sediments: Case Studies of Commonly used Numerical Techniques....Pages 615-642
Front Matter....Pages 549-549
Conclusions and Future Challenges....Pages 643-673
Back Matter....Pages 675-745

✦ Subjects

Math. Appl. in Environmental Science; Climate Change; Marine & Freshwater Sciences; Geoecology/Natural Processes