Ecological Informatics

I Introduction.- 1. Ecological Applications of Fuzzy Logic.- 2. Ecological Applications of Unsupervised Artificial Neural Networks.- 3. Ecological Applications of Genetic Algorithms.- 4. Ecological Applications of Evolutionary Computation.- 5. Ecological Applications of Adaptive Agents.- II Prediction and Elucidation of Stream Ecosystems.- 6. Development and Application of Predictive River Ecosystem Models Based On Classification Trees and Artificial Neural Networks.- 7. Modelling Ecological Interrelations in Running Water Ecosystems with Artificial Neural Networks.- 8. Non-linear Approach to Grouping, Dynamics and Organizational Informatics of Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities in Streams by Artificial Neural Networks.- 9. Elucidation of Hypothetical Relationships between Habitat Conditions and Macroinvertebrate Assemblages in Freshwater Streams by Artificial Neural Networks.- III Prediction and Elucidation of River Ecosystems.- 10. Prediction and Elucidation of Population Dynamics of the Blue-green Algae Microcystis aeruginosa and the Diatom Stephanodiscus hantzschii in the Nakdong River-Reservoir System (South Korea) by a Recurrent Artificial Neural Network.- 11. An Evaluation of Methods for the Selection of Inputs for an Artificial Neural Network Based River Model.- 12. Utility of Sensitivity Analysis by Artificial Neural Network Models to Study Patterns of Endemic Fish Species.- IV Prediction and Elucidation of Lake and Marine Ecosystems.- 13. A Comparison between Neural Network Based and Multiple Regression Models in Chlorophyll-a Estimation.- 14. A Generic Artificial Neural Network Model for Dynamic Predictions of Algal Abundance in Freshwater Lakes.- 15. Predictive Rules for Phytoplankton Dynamics in Freshwater Lakes Discovered by Evolutionary Algorithms.- 16. Multivariate Time-Series Prediction of Marine Zooplankton by Artificial Neural Networks.- 17. Classification of Fish Stock-Recruitment Relationships in Different Environmental regimes by Fuzzy Logic Combined with a Bootstrap Re-sampling Approach.- V Classification of Ecological Images at Micro and Macro Scale.- 18. Identification of Marine Microalgae by Neural Network Analysis of Simple Descriptors of Flow Cytometric Pulse Shapes.- 19. Age Estimation of Fish Using a Probabilistic Neural Network.- 20. Pattern Recognition and Classification of Remotely Sensed Images by Artificial Neural Networks.