Tracking Environmental Change Using Lake Sediments

1. The March Towards the Quantitative Analysis of Palaeolimnological Data
John P. Smol, H. John B. Birks, André F. Lotter, Steve Juggins

2. Overview of Numerical Methods in Palaeolimnology
H. John B. Birks

3. Data-Sets
H. John B. Birks, Vivienne J. Jones

4. Introduction and Overview of Part II
H. John B. Birks

5. Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Display
Steve Juggins, Richard J. Telford

6. Assessment of Uncertainties Associated with Palaeolimnological Laboratory Methods and Microfossil Analysis
Louis J. Maher, Oliver Heiri, André F. Lotter

7. Clustering and Partitioning
Pierre Legendre, H. John B. Birks

8. From Classical to Canonical Ordination
Pierre Legendre, H. John B. Birks

9. Statistical Learning in Palaeolimnology
Gavin L. Simpson, H. John B. Birks

10. Introduction and Overview of Part III
H. John B. Birks

11. Analysis of Stratigraphical Data
H. John B. Birks

12. Estimation of Age-Depth Relationships
Maarten Blaauw, Einar Heegaard

13. Core Correlation
Roy Thompson, R. Malcolm Clark, Geoffrey S. Boulton

14. Quantitative Environmental Reconstructions from Biological Data
Steve Juggins, H. John B. Birks

15. Analogue Methods in Palaeolimnology
Gavin L. Simpson

16. Autocorrelogram and Periodogram Analyses of Palaeolimnological Temporal-Series from Lakes in Central and Western North America to Assess Shifts in Drought Conditions
Pierre Dutilleul, Brian F. Cumming, Melinda Lontoc-Roy

17. Introduction and Overview of Part IV
H. John B. Birks

18. Limnological Responses to Environmental Changes at Inter-annual to Decadal Time-Scales
André F. Lotter, N. John Anderson

19. Human Impacts: Applications of Numerical Methods to Evaluate Surface-Water Acidification and Eutrophication
Gavin L. Simpson, Roland I. Hall

20. Tracking Holocene Climatic Change with Aquatic Biota from Lake Sediments: Case Studies of Commonly used Numerical Techniques
Brian F. Cumming, Kathleen R. Laird, Sherylyn C. Fritz, Dirk Verschuren

21. Conclusions and Future Challenges
H. John B. Birks

Keywords: Environment, Math. Appl. in Environmental Science, Climate Change, Marine & Freshwater Sciences, Geoecology/Natural Processes