Monitoring Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters

xii 433 pages, indexed, includes bibliographical references. There is an ownership signature on the front paste down and end paper, else immaculate. ""Monitoring Ecological Impacts" provides the tools needed by professional ecologists, scientists, engineers, planners and managers to design assessment programmes that can reliably monitor, detect and allow management of human impacts on the natural environment. Authors all from Australian Universities or institutions." "Twenty important issues in good monitoring design" on end papers and paste downs. CONTENTS: Pt. I. Introduction to the nature of monitoring problems and to rivers 1. Why we need well-designed monitoring programs 2. The ecological nature of flowing waters 3. Assessment of perturbation Pt. II. Principles of inference and design 4. Inferential issues for monitoring 5. The logical bases of monitoring design 6. Problems in applying designs 7. Alternative models for impact assessment Pt. III. Applying principles of inference and design 8. Applying monitoring designs to flowing waters 9. Inferential uncertainty and multiple lines of evidence 10. Variables that are used for monitoring in flowing waters 11. Defining important changes 12. Decisions and trade-offs 13. Optimization 14. The special case of monitoring attempts at restoration 15. What's next.…