Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments: Data Handling and Numerical Techniques (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Part I: Introduction, Numerical Overview, and Data-Sets. 1. The march towards the quantitative analysis of palaeolimnological data 2. Overview of numerical methods in palaeolimnology 3. Data-sets Part II: Numerical Methods for the Analysis of Modern and Stratigraphical Palaeolimnological Data 4. Introduction and overview of Part II 5. Exploratory data analysis and data display 6. Assessment of uncertainties associated with palaeolimnological laboratory methods and microfossil analysis 7. Clustering and partitioning 8. From classical to canonical ordination 9. Statistical learning in palaeolimnology P art III: Numerical Methods for the Analysis of Stratigraphical Palaeolimnological Data 10. Introduction and overview of Part III 11. Analysis of stratigraphical data 12. Estimation of age-depth relationships 13. Core correlation 14. Quantitative environmental reconstructions from biological data 15. Analogue methods in palaeolimnology 16. Autocorrelogram and periodogram analyses of palaeolimnological temporal-series from lakes in central and western North America to assess shifts in drought conditions Part IV: Case Studies and Future Developments in Quantitative Palaeolimnology 17. Introduction and overview of Part IV 18. Limnological responses to environmental changes at inter-annual to decadal time scales 19.Human impacts - applications of numerical methods to evaluate surface-water acidification and eutrophication 20.Tracking Holocene climatic change with aquatic biota from lake sediments: case studies of commonly used numerical techniques 21. Conclusions and future challenges.- Glossary, acronyms, and abbreviations Index