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100 1 Michener, William K
245 10 Ecological Data :|bDesign, Management and Processing
250 1st ed
264 1 Hoboken :|bJohn Wiley & Sons, Incorporated,|c2000
264 4 |c©2009
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505 0 Intro -- Ecological Data: Design, Management and
Processing -- Contents -- Contributors -- The Methods in
Ecology Series -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- CHAPTER 1
Research Design: Translating Ideas to Data -- CHAPTER 2
Data Management Principles, Implementation and
Administration -- CHAPTER 3 Scientific Databases --
CHAPTER 4 Data Quality Assurance -- CHAPTER 5 Metadata --
CHAPTER 6 Archiving Ecological Data and Information --
CHAPTER 7 Transforming Data into Information and Knowledge
-- CHAPTER 8 Ecological Knowledge and Future Data
Challenges -- Index
520 Ecologists are increasingly tackling difficult issues like
global change, loss of biodiversity and sustainability of
ecosystem services. These and related topics 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 visualizations 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. This requires a new approach to how we conduct
ecological research, that views data as a resource and
promotes stewardship, recycling and sharing of data.
Ecological Data will be particularly useful to those
ecologists and
520 8 information specialists that actively design, manage and
analyze environmental databases. However, it will also
benefit a wider audience of scientists and students in the
ecological and environmental sciences
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650 0 Ecology -- Data processing.;Ecology -- Methodology
655 4 Electronic books
700 1 Brunt, James W
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