About the Author
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
PART I. Introduction
Chapter 1. The Importance of Monitoring in Regional Ecosystem Initiatives
PART II. Principles of Ecosystem Monitoring Design
Chapter 2. Conceptual Issues in Monitoring Ecological Resources
Chapter 3. Design of an Ecological Monitoring Strategy for the Forest Plan in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 4. Monitoring for Adaptive Management of the Colorado River Ecosystem in Glen and Grand Canyons
Chapter 5. Science Strategy for a Regional Ecosystem Monitoring and Assessment Program: The Florida Everglades Example
PART III. Information Management and Modeling for Monitoring Programs
Chapter 6. The Use of Models for a Multiscaled Ecological Monitoring System
Chapter 7. Role of Knowledge-Based Systems in Analysis and Communication of Monitoring Data
Chapter 8. Approaches to Quality Assurance and Information Management for Regional Ecological Monitoring Programs
Chapter 9. Estimation of Change in Populations and Communities from Monitoring Survey Data
PART IV. Monitoring Habitats, Populations, and Communities
Chapter 10. Competing Goals of Spatial and Temporal Resolution: Monitoring Seagrass Communities on a Regional Scale
Chapter 11. Late-Successional Forest Monitoring in the Pacific Northwest
Chapter 12. Monitoring Wetland Ecosystems Using Avian Populations: Seventy Years of Surveys in the Everglades
Chapter 13. Setting and Monitoring Restoration Goals in the Absence of Historical Data: The Case of Fishes in the Florida Everglades
Chapter 14. Monitoring Biodiversity for Ecoregional InitiativesPART V. Summary and Synthesis
Chapter 15. Monitoring, Assessment, and Ecoregional Initiatives: A Synthesis
Glossary
Index