Ecological Time Series

Acknowledgments; Contributors; Introduction-- M. E. Schumacher and J. H. Steele; Part I: Analysis and methodology: Can ecological concepts span the land and ocean domains?-- J. H. Steele; Fitting population models to time series data-- A. R. Solow; Interhemispheric ocean carbon transport-- T.-H. Peng and W. S. Broecker; Integration of spatial analysis in long-term ecological studies-- J. R. Vande Castle; A general review of dynamic systems-- J. Guckenheimer; The natural history of time series-- R. R. Dickson; Detecting periodicity in quantitative versus semi-quantitative time series-- J. D. Stockwell et al.; Part II: Comparison of scales: Physical and biological scales of variability in lakes, estuaries, and the coastal ocean-- T. M. Powell; Year-to-year fluctuation of the spring phytoplankton bloom in South San Francisco Bay: an example of ecological variability at the land-sea interface-- J. E. Cloern and A. D. Jassby; Scales of variability in a stable environment: phytoplankton in the Central North Pacific-- E. Venrick; Ocean time series research near Bermuda: the Hydrostation S Time Series and the Bermuda Atlantic Time Series Study (BATS) program-- A. F. Michaels; Planning long-term vegetation studies at landscape scales-- T. J. Stohlgren; Time series compared across the land-sea gradient-- S. C. Warner et al.; Part III: Processes and principles: The problem of pattern and scale in ecology-- S. A. Levin; Long-term environmental change-- P. F. McDowell, T. Webb III, and P. J. Bartlein; Monitoring ocean productivity by assimilating satellite chlorophyll into ecosystem models-- R. A. Armstrong, J. L. Sarmiento, and R. D. Slater; Long-term measurements at the Arctic LTER site-- J. E. Hobbie et al.; Basic models in epidemiology-- R. Brauer and C. Castillo-Chavez; Long-term ecological research and the invisible present-- J. J. Magnuson; Interpreting explanatory processes for time series patterns: lessons from three time series-- M. P. McClaran et al.