Features:

• Includes nonlinear analysis techniques and the application of concepts from chaos theory to problems of spatial and temporal patterns
• Investigates scaling of environmental variability in aquatic systems
• Examines physical-biological coupling at spatial scales ranging from millimeters to thousands of kilometers
• Incorporates new modeling techniques for observing small-scale biological processes such as zooplankton behavior

Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology is the first comprehensive compilation of modern scaling methods used in marine and freshwater ecological research. Written by leading researchers, it presents a systematic approach to dealing with space and time in aquatic ecology. This is a compendium that analyzes themes related to the response or behavior of organisms to processes occurring over multiple spatial and temporal scales.

Coverage includes:

• Novel techniques for data collection, focusing on processes over a broad range of scales (from bacteria to ocean basins)
• Newly-developed concepts and data analysis algorithms
• Innovative computer models and simulations to mimic complex biological processes

The Handbook of Scaling Methods in Aquatic Ecology serves as a reference volume for investigators seeking insight into new experimental approaches and data analysis, as well as the sensor design required for optimal sampling. Many of the algorithms and models provided are directly applicable to your experimental data. This comprehensive treatment of scaling methods and applications can help foster a unified understanding of subject matter among the modeling, experimental, and field research communities.

Contents

1. Measurements
   • Comparison of bio-optical scale resolution from CTD and microstructure measurements
   • Measurement of zooplankton distributions with a high-resolution digital camera system
   • Squyres
   • Planktonic Layers: physical and biological interactions on the small-scale
   • Scales of Biological-Physical Coupling in the Equatorial Pacific
   • Acoustic remote sensing of photosynthetic activity in seagrass beds
   • Multiscale in situ measurements of intertidal benthic production and respiration
   • Spatially Extensive, High Resolution Images of Rocky Shore Communities
   • Food web dynamics in stable isotope ecology: time integration of different trophic levels
   • Synchrotron-based infrared imaging of Euglena gracilis single cells
   • Signaling during mating in the pelagic copepod, Temora longicornis
   • Experimental validation of an individual-based model for zooplankton swarming

2. Analysis
   • On skipjack tuna dynamics: similarity at several scales
   • The temporal scaling of environmental variability in rivers and lakes
   • Biogeochemical variability at the sea surface: how it is linked to process response times
   • Challenges in the analysis and simulation of benthic community patterns
   • Fractal dimension estimation in studies of epiphytal and epilithic communities- strengths and weaknesses
   • Rank-size analysis and vertical phytoplankton distribution patterns
   • An introduction to wavelets
   • Fractal characterization of spatial distributions of plankton on Georges Bank
   • Orientation of sea fans perpendicular to the flow
   • Why are large, delicate, gelatinous organisms so successful in the ocean's interior?
   • Quantifying zooplankton swimming behavior: the question of scale
   • Identification of iterations in copepod populations using a qualitative study of stage-structured population models

3. Simulation
   • The importance of spatial scale in the modeling of aquatic ecosystems
   • Patterns in models of plankton dynamics in a heterogeneous environment
   • Seeing the wood for the trees, and vice versa: pattern-oriented ecological modelling
   • Spatial dynamics of a benthic community: applying multiple models to a single system
   • Effects of Langmuir circulation on buoyant particles
   • Modeling of turbulent intermittency: multifractal stochastic processes and their simulation
   • An application of lognormal theory to moderate Reynolds number turbulent structures
   • Numerical simulations of the flow field at the scale size of an individual copepod
   • Can turbulence reduce the energy costs of hovering for planktonic organisms?
   • Utilising different levels of adaptation in individual-based modelling
   • Using multi-agent systems to develop individual based models for copepods: Consequences of individual behavior and spatial heterogeneity on the emerging properties at the population scale
   • Modeling planktonic behavior as a complex adaptive system
   • Discrete events based Lagrangian approach as a tool for modelling predator prey interactions in the plankton

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