Monitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. The context of this book is flowing water environments, especially rivers and streams. However, the advice given for designing assessment programs can be applied to any type of ecosystem. The procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic and the statistical models used to analyse complex...
More DescriptionMonitoring Ecological Impacts provides the tools needed to design assessment programs that can reliably monitor, detect and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. The context of this book is flowing water environments, especially rivers and streams. However, the advice given for designing assessment programs can be applied to any type of ecosystem. The procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic and the statistical models used to analyse complex data are provided. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols, which are applicable to real situations.