Scaling and Uncertainty Analysis in Ecology

1. Concepts of scale and scaling

2. Perspectives, methods of scaling

3. Uncertainty analysis in ecological studies

4. Multilevel statistical models, ecological scaling

5. Downscaling abundance from species distribution

6. Scaling terrestrial biogeochemical processes

7. A framework, methods for simplifying landscapes

8. Building up with top-down approach

9. Carbon fluxes across regions

10. Landscape and regional scale studies of nitrogen gas fluxes

11. Multiscale relationships of landscape characteristics and nitrogen concentrations in streams

12. Uncertainty in scaling nutrient export coefficients

13. Causes, consequences of land use change in North Carolina Piedmont

14. Assessing spatial scale influence on relationship between avian nesting success and forest fragmentation

15. Scaling issues in mapping riparian zones

16. Scale issues in lake-watershed interaction

17. Scaling, uncertainty in region-wide water quality decision-making

18. Scaling with known uncertainty

Dr. Jianguo (Jingle) Wu is Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Environmental Science, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona. He obtained his Ph.D. in Ecology from Miami University, Oxford, OH in 1991, and was an NSF postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and Princeton University between 1991 and 1993. Dr. Wu's research areas include landscape ecology, urban ecology, and sustainability science. His recent research has focused on urban landscape analysis and modeling, biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and spatial scaling. He is author of over 120 journal papers and book chapters, and has been Program Chair of the US Association of Landscape Ecology (US-IALE), Councilor-at-Large of US-IALE, and Chair of Asian Ecology Section of Ecological Society of America. Dr. Wu is currently the Editor-in-Chief of the international journal, Landscape Ecology.

Bruce Jones is a Landscape Ecologist in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Laboratory in Las Vegas, Nevada. His research interests include landscape ecology, biogeography, molecular evolution, and herpetology.

Harbin Li is a Research Ecologist with USDA Forest Service. His research interests include spatial modeling and analysis of landscapes, effects of forest fragmentation on wildlife habitat, and decision support tools for ecosystem management.

Orie L. Louck has been Ohio Eminent Scholar in Applied Ecosystem Studies and Professor of Zoology at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, and currently President of ICValue Inc. His interests concern carbon and nutrient processing of forest ecosystems and the role of biological diversity in sustaining these processes.

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