Ecological Informatics Data Management and Knowledge Discovery /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Recknagel, Friedrich (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Michener, William K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 3rd ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Environmental management.; Ecology .; Environmental monitoring.; Data mining.; Database management.; Environmental Management.; Ecology.; Monitoring/Environmental Analysis.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.; Database Management.

This book introduces readers to ecological informatics as an emerging discipline that takes into account the data-intensive nature of ecology, the valuable information to be found in ecological data, and the need to communicate results and inform decisions, including those related to research, conse...

Table of Contents:

• Ecological Informatics: An Introduction
• Project Data Management Planning
• Scientific Databases for Environmental Research
• Quality Assurance and Quality Control (QA/QC)
• Creating and Managing Metadata
• Preserve: Protecting Data for Long-term Use
• Data Discovery
• Data Integration: Principles and Practice
• Inferential Modelling of Population Dynamics
• Process-based Modeling of Nutrient Cycles and Food-web Dynamics
• Uncertainty Analysis by Bayesian Inference
• Multivariate Data Analysis by means of Self-organizing Maps
• GIS-based Data Synthesis and Visualization
• Communicating and Disseminating Research Findings
• Operational Forecasting in Ecology by Inferential Models and Remote Sensing
• Strategic Forecasting in Ecology by Inferential and Process-based Models
• Biodiversity Informatics
• Understanding Bioinvasion of Lake Champlain, U.S.A.
• The Global Lake Ecological Observatory Network
• Long-Term Ecological Research in the Nakdong River: Application of Ecological Informatics to Harmful Algal Blooms
• Long-term Ecological Research in the English Lake District : From Ecological Informatics to the Generation of Ecological Knowledge.        .