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Monitoring Ecological Change
Author | : Ian F. Spellerberg |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 422 |
Release | : 2005-08-18 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 1139445472 |
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The state of ecosystems, biological communities and species are continuously changing as a result of both natural processes and the activities of humans. In order to detect and understand these changes, effective ecological monitoring programmes are required. This book offers an introduction to the topic and provides both a rationale for monitoring and a practical guide to the techniques available. Written in a nontechnical style, the book covers the relevance and growth of ecological monitoring, the organizations and programmes involved, the science of ecological monitoring and an assessment of methods in practice, including many examples from monitoring programmes around the world. Building on the success of the first edition, this edition has been fully revised and updated with two additional chapters covering the relevance of monitoring to the reporting of the state of the environment, and the growth of community based ecological monitoring.
Biodiversity and Environmental Change
Author | : Emma Burns,David Lindenmayer,Andrew Lowe,Nicole Thurgate |
Publsiher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 624 |
Release | : 2014-02-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780643108578 |
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Annotation Long-term ecological data are critical for informing long-term trends in biodiversity and trends in environmental change. The Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) is a major initiative of the Australian Government and one of its key areas of investment is to provide funding for a network of long-term ecological research plots around Australia (LTERN). This book highlights some of the temporal changes in the environment and/or in biodiversity that have occurred in different ecosystems, ranging from tropical rainforests, wet eucalypt forests and alpine regions through to rangelands and deserts. Many important trends and changes are documented and they often provide new insights that were previously poorly understood or unknown. These data are precisely the kinds of data so desperately needed to better quantify the temporal trajectories in the environment and biodiversity in Australia.
Effective Ecological Monitoring
Author | : Gene Likens,David Lindenmayer |
Publsiher | : CSIRO PUBLISHING |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2018-05-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781486308941 |
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Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist. The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, illustrating key aspects of effective monitoring with case studies and examples. It includes new sections comparing surveillance-based and question-based monitoring, analysing environmental observation networks, and provides examples of adaptive monitoring. Based on the authors’ 80 years of collective experience in running long-term research and monitoring programs, Effective Ecological Monitoring is a valuable resource for the natural resource management, ecological and environmental science and policy communities.
Monitoring for Conservation and Ecology
Author | : F.B. Goldsmith |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9789401130868 |
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Monitoring has become fashionable. Business now talks about monitoring its activities, efficiency, costs and profits. The National Health Service is monitoring general practices and hospitals; it is keen to have more information about efficiency and the duration of stay of patients in different hospitals undergoing different types of treatment. These activities are usually carried out in relation to specific objectives with the aim of making activities more cost effective and competitive. Does the same apply in biology, ecology and nature conservation? Or, are we still enjoying conducting field surveys for the fun of it, at best with rather vague objectives and saying to our colleagues that we do our work because we need to know what is there? This book is an opportunity to consider some of the reasons why monitoring is important, how it differs from survey, how it may be able to answer specific questions and help with site management or problem solving. It will explore some of the taxa that are suitable for recording and how you may actually set about doing it. It is not intended as a catalogue of techniques but we will in each chapter give you sources of material so that with the minimum of effort you will be able to proceed with an efficient, relevant and not too time consuming monitoring programme. Some of the points that you need to consider before starting are also set down in the synthesis at the end of the book.
Changing Views on Change
Author | : Joanne Abbot,Irene Guijt |
Publsiher | : IIED |
Total Pages | : 100 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Environmental monitoring |
ISBN | : 1904035817 |
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Design and Analysis of Long term Ecological Monitoring Studies
Author | : Robert A. Gitzen,Joshua J. Millspaugh,Andrew B. Cooper,Daniel S. Licht |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 779 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9781139510196 |
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To provide useful and meaningful information, long-term ecological programs need to implement solid and efficient statistical approaches for collecting and analyzing data. This volume provides rigorous guidance on quantitative issues in monitoring, with contributions from world experts in the field. These experts have extensive experience in teaching fundamental and advanced ideas and methods to natural resource managers, scientists and students. The chapters present a range of tools and approaches, including detailed coverage of variance component estimation and quantitative selection among alternative designs; spatially balanced sampling; sampling strategies integrating design- and model-based approaches; and advanced analytical approaches such as hierarchical and structural equation modelling. Making these tools more accessible to ecologists and other monitoring practitioners across numerous disciplines, this is a valuable resource for any professional whose work deals with ecological monitoring. Supplementary example software code is available online at www.cambridge.org/9780521191548.
Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales
Author | : Shabeg S. Sandhu,Laura Jackson,Kay Austin,Jeffrey Hyland,Brian D. Melzian,Kevin Summers |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 593 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9789401149761 |
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The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program was created by EPA to develop the capability for tracking the changing conditions of our natural resources and to give environmental policy the advantages ofa sound scientific understanding of trends. Former EPA Administrators recognized early that contemporary monitoring programs could not even quantify simple unknowns like the number of lakes suffering from acid rain, let along determine if national control policies were benefiting these lakes. Today, adding to acidification impacts are truly complex problems such as determining the effects of climate change, of increases in ultraviolet light, toxic chemicals, eutrophication and critical habitat loss. Also today, the Government Performance and Results Act seeks to have agencies develop performance standards based on results rather than simply on levels of programmatic activities. The charge to EMAP of ecosystems is, therefore, the same today as it was a with respect to measuring the condition decade ago. We welcome the increasing urgency for sound scientific monitoring methods and data by efforts to protect and improve the environment. Systematic nationwide monitoring of natural resources is more than anyone program can accomplish, however. In an era of declining budgets, it is crucial that monitoring programs at all levels of government coordinate and share environmental data. EMAP resources are dwarfed by the more than $500 million spent on federal monitoring activities each year.
Design and Analysis of Long term Ecological Monitoring Studies
Author | : Robert A. Gitzen |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2012-06-07 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780521139298 |
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Comprehensive and multidisciplinary coverage of fundamental and advanced statistical tools and issues relevant to long-term ecological monitoring.