Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Evaluating Ecoregional Initiatives - Softcover

 
9781559638517: Monitoring Ecosystems: Interdisciplinary Approaches for Evaluating Ecoregional Initiatives

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Often a commitment to large ecosystem initiatives is linked both conceptually and legally with requirements for ecological monitoring as a means of evaluating the effectiveness of management actions. Programs to determine ecosystem status and trends can contribute significantly to the resolution of difficult and contentious management questions, and can play a key role both in sharpening the focus of research questions and in developing adaptive approaches to resource management.Monitoring Ecosystems brings together leading scientists and researchers to offer a groundbreaking synthesis of lessons learned about ecological monitoring in major ecoregional initiatives around the United States. Contributors—Donald L. DeAngelis, Lance H. Gunderson, Barry R. Noon, John C. Ogden, Craig J. Palmer, Keith M. Reynolds, Paul L. Ringold, John R. Sauer, Lawrence E. Stevens, and many others—present insights and experiences gained from their work in designing, developing, and implementing comprehensive ecosystem monitoring programs in the Pacific Northwest, the lower Colorado River Basin, and the Florida Everglades. The book:outlines the conceptual and scientific underpinnings for regional-scale ecosystem monitoringexamines the role and importance of data management, modeling, and integrative analysesconsiders techniques for and experience with monitoring habitats, populations, and communitiesChapters by the editors synthesize and expand on points made throughout the volume and present recommendations for establishing frameworks for monitoring across scales, from local to international.Monitoring Ecosystems presents a critical examination of the lessons learned from direct experience along with generalized conclusions that can be applied to monitoring programs in the United States and around the world. It is a vital contribution to science-based monitoring efforts that will allow those responsible for developing and implementing ecoregional initiatives to make use of knowledge gained in previous efforts, enabling them to focus their energies on system-specific questions and problems.

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David E. Busch is biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center in Portland, Oregon. Joel C. Trexler is associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University in Miami.

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ISBN 10:  1559638508 ISBN 13:  9781559638500
Verlag: ISLAND PR, 2002
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