Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters - Softcover

Downes, Barbara J.; Barmuta, Leon A.; Fairweather, Peter G.; Faith, Daniel P.; Keough, Michael J.; Lake, P. S.; Mapstone, Bruce D.; Quinn, Gerry P.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521065291 ISBN 13: 9780521065290

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 procedures described are well-grounded in inferential logic, and the statistical models needed to analyse complex data are given. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols which can be applied in any region of the world, a wide range of human impacts, and any ecosystem. In addition, real examples are used to show how the theory can be put into practice.

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Book Description

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 data are provided. Step-by-step guidelines and flow diagrams provide clear and useable protocols, which are applicable to real situations.

About the Author

Barbara J. Downes is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She is an aquatic ecologist, with 20 years research experience in both freshwater and marine environments.

Leon A. Barmuta is a Lecturer in Zoology at the University of Tasmania, Australia. He is a freshwater ecologist with extensive experience in basic and applied ecology in Australia and the United States of America.

Peter Fairweather is a Senior Lecturer in Ecology at Deakin University, Australia. He has worked in marine, estuarine and freshwater ecosystems in Australia and USA, and has edited the Australian Journal of Ecology.

Daniel Faith is a Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum, with research interests in systematics, biodiversity conservation and biological monitoring. He is an Associate Editor of Systematic Biology.

Michael Keough is a Reader in Zoology at the University of Melbourne. His research interests include the ecology of natural and human-induced disturbances in coastal habitats. He is co-author of Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0521065291
• ISBN 13: 9780521065290
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 452