Census monographs on community growth and change

Assessing housing growth when census boundaries change

ALEXANDRA D. SYPHARD*{, SUSAN I. STEWART{, JASON MCKEEFRY{, ROGER B. HAMMER§, JEREMY S. FRIED", SHERRY HOLCOMB{ and VOLKER C. RADELOFF{ {Department of Forest Ecology and Management, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, 53706, USA {USDA Forest Service, Northern Research Station, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA §Department of Sociology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA "USDA Forest Se...

European respiratory monographs: community-acquired pneumonia

Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is the most common cause of death from infectious disease worldwide, and over the past 25 years there has been dramatic progress in research about all aspects of this disease. The European Respiratory Monograph devoted to this topic is a comprehensive review of the topic aimed at a broad range of health professionals, including critical care physicians. The 20...

Effects of Climate Change on Plant Population Growth Rate and Community Composition Change

The impacts of climate change on forest community composition are still not well known. Although directional trends in climate change and community composition change were reported in recent years, further quantitative analyses are urgently needed. Previous studies focused on measuring population growth rates in a single time period, neglecting the development of the populations. Here we aimed ...

On several classes of monographs

Size change, shape change, and the growth space of a community.

Measures of biodiversity change such as the Living Planet Index describe proportional change in the abundance of a typical species, which can be thought of as change in the size of a community. Here, I discuss the orthogonal concept of change in relative abundances, which I refer to as shape change. To be logically consistent, a measure of the rate of shape change should be scaling invariant (h...