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Effective Ecological Monitoring (Hardcover)
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Effective Ecological Monitoring (Hardcover)
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Ecologists and managers of natural resources readily acknowledge
the importance of long-term studies and monitoring for improved
understanding and management of complex environmental systems.
Long-term data are crucially important for providing baselines for
evaluating environmental change. They are also fundamental for
detecting and evaluating changes in ecosystem structure and
function, and for evaluating response to disturbances such as
climate change or pollution. Countless scientific articles, books,
management plans and other documents have been written about the
need to conduct long-term studies and monitoring. However, although
there have undoubtedly been some highly successful long-term
ecological studies and monitoring programs, there is a history of
poorly planned and unfocused efforts that are either ineffective or
fail completely. In this book, the authors outline some of the key
pitfalls and deficiencies in ecological monitoring programs and
long-term studies. They then describe some the features of
monitoring programs and long-term studies that are essential to
make them viable, using case studies such as those of Rothamsted
(UK) and the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study (USA). Based upon their
collective experience spanning 70 years in establishing long-term
studies and natural resource monitoring programs, the authors
propose a new approach, which they call Adaptive Monitoring, to
resolve some of these problems underlying poorly planned and
unfocused monitoring programs.
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