Monitoring ecosystems
Subtitle: interdisciplinary approaches for evaluating ecoregional initiatives
By: edited by David E. Busch, Joel C. Trexler ; foreword by Lance H. Gunderson.
Contributors: Busch, David E.; Trexler, Joel C.
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 447
Subjects: Environmental monitoring
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of monitoring in regional ecosystem initiatives -- David E. Busch and Joel C. Trexler; title: Conceptual issues in monitoring ecological resources -- Barry R. Noon; title: Design of an ecological monitoring strategy for the forest plan in the Pacific northwest -- Paul L. Ringold ... [et al.]; title: Monitoring for adaptive management of the Colorado River Ecosystem in Glen and Grand Canyons -- Lawrence E. Stevens and Barry D. Gold; title: Science strategy for a regional ecosystem monitoring and assessment program: the Florida Everglades example -- John C. Ogden, Steven M. Davis, and Laura A. Brandt; title: The use of models for a multiscaled ecological monitoring system -- Donald L. DeAngelis ... [et al.]; title: Role of knowledge-based systems in analysis and communication of monitoring data -- Keith M. Reynolds and Gordon H. Reeves; title: Approaches to quality assurance and information management for regional ecological monitoring programs -- Craig J. Palmer; title: Estimation of change in populations and communities from monitoring survey data -- John R. Sauer, William A. Link, and James D. Nichols; title: Competing goals of spatial and temporal resolution: monitoring seagrass communities on a regional scale -- James W. Fourqurean and Leanne M. Rutten; title: Late-successional forest monitoring in the pacific northwest -- Miles A. Hemstrom; title: Monitoring wetland ecosystems using avian populations: seventy years of surveys in the Everglades -- Peter Frederick and John C. Ogden; title: Setting and monitoring restoration goals in the absence of historical data: the case of fishes in the Florida Everglades -- Joel C. Trexler, William F. Loftus, and John H. Chick; title: Monitoring biodiversity for ecoregional initiatives -- William L. Gaines, Richy J. Harrod, and John F. Lehmkuh; title: Monitoring, assessment, and ecoregional initiatives: a synthesis-- Joel C. Trexler and David E. Busch.