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Phenology and Seasonality Modeling

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  1. Helmut Lieth

    1. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

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Part of the book series: Ecological Studies (ECOLSTUD, volume 8)

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Table of contents (37 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages N3-xv
    PDF

  2. Introduction to Phenology and the Modeling of Seasonality

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
      PDF

    2. Purposes of a Phenology Book

      • Helmut Lieth
      Pages 3-19

  3. Methods for Phenological Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
      PDF

    2. Introduction

      • Forest Stearns, Helmut Lieth
      Pages 23-24

    3. Plant Phenology Observation Networks

      • Richard J. Hopp
      Pages 25-43

    4. Phenology Gardens in Indiana

      • Byron O. Blair, James E. Newman, Jack R. Fenwick
      Pages 45-54

    5. Phenology and Remote Sensing

      • Stanley A. Morain
      Pages 55-75

    6. Computer Mapping in Phenological Analysis

      • Joseph M. Caprio, Richard J. Hopp, Jack S. Williams
      Pages 77-82

    7. Phenology and Genecology of Woody Plants

      • Harrison L. Flint
      Pages 83-97

  4. Seasonality in Trophic Levels

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 99-99
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    2. Introduction

      • Helmut Lieth
      Pages 101-102

    3. Seasonality in Terrestrial Primary Producers

      • Roger C. Anderson
      Pages 103-111

    4. Seasonality of Nitrogen Fixation in Gulf Coast Salt Marshes

      • Frances Green, Joe Edmisten
      Pages 113-126

    5. Phenology and Seasonal Modeling in Insects

      • William E. Bradshaw
      Pages 127-137

    6. Seasonality in Birds

      • Charles M. Weise
      Pages 139-147

    7. Seasonality in Mammals

      • Michael H. Smith
      Pages 149-162

    8. Seasonality of Decomposers

      • Barry A. Katz, Helmut Lieth
      Pages 163-184
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About this book

The pulse of life with the seasons is a classic theme of biology, equally cap­ turing every man's curiosity about early and late milestones of every year's cycle and the critical physiologist's inquiry into life's subtle signals and responses. Natural historians of ancient and renaissance time as well as today have charted the commonsense facts behind inspired traditions of poetry and practical rules for growing food and fiber. This volume brings together several ways of organizing the basic principles of phenology. These find order in the otherwise overwhelming mass of detail that captures our fleeting attention, like the daily newspaper, and then tends to fade into the overstuffed archives of history. Is this order so obvious and understandable that there is no longer any scien­ tific challenge to "phenology" as a tradition? Or does apparent simplicity mask a complex and ultimately baffling obstacle to the understanding of seasonality in even those few indicator plants and animals we know best, not to men­ tion the less known species or races making up the rest of each major land­ scape unit or ecosystem? Denying both these hasty opinions, we think that this volume well illustrates a range of questions and answers-from soundly established (but not trivial) doctrine to exciting inquiry about how ecosystems are organized.
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Editors and Affiliations

  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, USA

    Helmut Lieth

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Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Phenology and Seasonality Modeling

  • Editors: Helmut Lieth

  • Series Title: Ecological Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-51863-8

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-51865-2Published: 29 December 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-51863-8Published: 09 March 2013

  • Series ISSN: 0070-8356

  • Series E-ISSN: 2196-971X

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 444

  • Number of Illustrations: 83 b/w illustrations, 10 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Plant Sciences, Ecology

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