Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments Data Handling and Numerical Techniques /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Birks, H. John B. (Editor), Lotter, André F. (Editor), Juggins, Steve (Editor), Smol, John P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2012.
• Series: Developments in Paleoenvironmental Research, 5
• Subjects: Environment.; Climate change.; Geoecology.; Environmental geology.; Environmental sciences.; Marine sciences.; Freshwater.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; Climate Change.; Marine & Freshwater Sciences.; Geoecology/Natural Processes.

Numerical and statistical methods have rapidly become part of a palaeolimnologist’s tool-kit. They are used to explore and summarise complex data, reconstruct past environmental variables from fossil assemblages, and test competing hypotheses about the causes of observed changes in lake biota throug...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Introduction, Numerical Overview, and Data-Sets
• Part II: Numerical Methods for the Analysis of Modern and Stratigraphical Palaeolimnological Data
• Part III: Numerical Methods for the Analysis of Stratigraphical Palaeolimnological Data
• Part IV: Case Studies and Future Developments in Quantitative Palaeolimnology.