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The Natural History of Time Series

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Ecological Time Series

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In a volume that describes the collection, analysis, and interpretation of the key time series by which environmental variation and its effects are understood— all of them screened, calibrated, and corrected with considerable thought and care—it is perhaps appropriate to remind ourselves that the business of achieving a homogeneous series is neither easy nor obvious. When collected over decades, time series are almost bound to be affected by subtle changes in the site and method, which are important to environmental change only insofar as they obscure it; and even in the case of shorter series, records may still suffer from instrumental errors and malfunctions of greater or lesser subtlety.

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  1. Department of Intergrative Biology, University of California-Berkeley, USA

    Thomas M. Powell

  2. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA

    John H. Steele

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Dickson, R.R. (1995). The Natural History of Time Series. In: Powell, T.M., Steele, J.H. (eds) Ecological Time Series. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1769-6_7

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