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Monitoring Ecological Change
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Artikel-Nr:
9780521527286
Veröffentl:
2008
Einband:
Paperback
Erscheinungsdatum:
31.12.2008
Seiten:
412
Autor:
Ian F. Spellerberg
Gewicht:
708 g
Format:
244x170x22 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Ian Spellerberg is Professor of Nature Conservation at Lincoln University, New Zealand and Director of the University's Isaac Centre for Nature Conservation.
This book offers a practical introduction to how we measure, monitor and record changes taking place in living communities. The first part of the book describes the relevance and growth of ecological monitoring and the programmes and organizations involved. The book then goes on to describe the science of ecological monitoring in respect to spatial scales, temporal scales, indicators and indices. Much of the later part of the book provides an assessment of methods and monitoring in practice, including many case-study examples from around the world.
Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Ecological monitoring; 2. Environmental monitoring programmes and organizations; 3. State of the environment reporting and ecological monitoring; 4. Biological scales and spatial scales in ecological monitoring; 5. Biological indicators and indices; 6. Diversity and similarity indices; 7. Planning and designing ecological monitoring; 8. Community-based ecological monitoring; 9. Ecological monitoring of species and biological communities; 10. Ecological monitoring and environmental impact assessments; Appendix 1. Acronyms used in the text; Appendix 2. The 1992 Convention on Biological Diversity; References; Index.