"Proceedings of the SPRUCE Conference held in the Calouste Gulbenkian Centre, Lisbon, Portugal, 7-10 April 1992." "Sponsored by: Commission of the European Communities." Includes bibliographical references (p. [401]-418) and index.
Contents:
Environmental monitoring and sampling: The active mixing volume : a new concept in modelling environmental systems / P.C. Young and M. Lees. Encounter sampling and modelling in ecological and environmental studies using weighted distribution methods / G.P. Patil, C. Taillie, and S. Talwalker. Comparing sampling designs for monitoring ecological status and trends : impact of temporal patterns / N.S. Urquhart, W.S. Overton, and D.S. Birkes -- Measuring levels and consequences of pollution and contamination: Point process modelling in environmental epidemiology / P.J. Diggle. Estimation of quantiles in airborne pollution : measuring pollution around gas furnaces / G. Lindgren, L. Zetterqvist, and G. Holmstedt. A stochastic model for times of exposures to air pollution from a point source / A.C. Davison and N.I. Ramesh -- Climatological and meteorological issues: Long-range dependence and global warming / R.L. Smith. Environmental factors affecting reservoir safety / C.W. Anderson and S. Nadarajah. Rainfall depth-duration-frequency curves : a problem of dependent extremes / T.A. Buishand -- Water resources: Water resources and statistics : past, present, and future / V. Yevjevich. On the estimation of parameters of rare events in environmental time series / M.I. Gomes. Extreme sea levels / J.A. Tawn -- Dynamics of fish populations: Modelling and managing a salmon population / T. Speed. Ambiguous inferences from fisheries data / J.T. Schnute. Recapture data on tagged fish : some questions of analysis and interpretation / R.M. Cormack -- Forestry : supply and conservation: Statistical analysis of climatological and ecological factors in forestry : spatial and temporal aspects / W. Urfer. Uncertainty and the conservation or destruction of natural forests and wilderness / W.J. Reed. Quantitative assessment of growth in the tropical rainforests / S. Nokoe
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