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Rethinking Discretization to Advance Limnology in a Rapidly Changing World
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: Received: 25 October 2019 / Approved: 27 October 2019 / Online: 27 October 2019 (15:56:58 CET)
How to cite: Kraemer, B. Rethinking Discretization to Advance Limnology in a Rapidly Changing World. Preprints 2019, 2019100312. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0312.v1 Kraemer, B. Rethinking Discretization to Advance Limnology in a Rapidly Changing World. Preprints 2019, 2019100312. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints201910.0312.v1
Abstract
Limnologists often adhere to a discretized view of waterbodies—they classify them, divide them into zones, promote discrete management targets, and use research tools, experimental designs, and statistical analyses focused on discretization. This approach to limnology has profoundly benefited the way we understand, manage, and communicate about waterbodies. But the research questions and the research tools in limnology are changing rapidly with consequences for the relevance of our current discretization schemes. Here, I examine how and why we discretize and argue that selectively rethinking the extent to which we must discretize gives us an exceptional chance to advance limnology in new ways.
Keywords
classification; management; big data; computing; statistics; trophic state; zonation
Subject
Computer Science and Mathematics, Mathematics
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