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Measurement, scale, and prediction: caveat emptor.

Publication: BioScience
Publication Date: 01-MAY-07 		Format: Online
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Full Article Title: Measurement, scale, and prediction: caveat emptor.(Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology.)(Book review)

Article Excerpt
Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology. Jianguo Wu, K. Bruce Jones, Harbin Li, and Orie L. Loucks. Springer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 2006. 351 pp., illus. $119.00 (ISBN 9781402046629 cloth).

To understand, manage, and assess the effects of change on the Earths ecosystems requires a troika of measurement, translation, and prediction of patterns with changes in scale. This problem is familiar to ecologists: Pielou (1969) discussed issues of spatial sampling and data analysis nearly 40 years ago; O'Neill (1979) explored the transmutation of information across levels of complexity; Allen and Starr (1982) provided new perspectives from hierarchy theory; and Levin (1992) galvanized interest with his 1989 Robert H. MacArthur Award Lecture to the Ecological Society of America. The unresolved issues revolve around the complex response of ecosystems to change; the insufficiency of measurements in time and space; and the diversity of approaches now being employed by geographers, geologists, atmospheric scientists, and ecologists.

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