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Monitoring Ecological Impacts

Name: Monitoring Ecological Impacts
Author: Barbara J. Downes
ISBN: 9780521771573

by Barbara J. Downes, Michael J. Keough, Leon A. Barmuta

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

Provides clear and useable protocols for the detection and measurement of human impacts on the environment.

Booknews

Written by ecologists, zoologists, and biologists, this text describes the methods of rigorous impact assessments of the affect on rivers' environments and biota from dams, diversion schemes, water withdrawal, and other stressors. After exploring the nature of monitoring problems, authors set out the necessity for a framework for making statistical decisions, explain the basics of hypothesis testing, and outline past problems with monitoring design. They then suggest corrections including using a levels of evidence approach, reexamining decisions related to effect size, and optimizing financial cost of designs relative to information content. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

About the Author, Barbara J. Downes

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.

P. S. Lake is Professor in Ecology at Monash University, Australia. He is currently Chief Ecologist in the Cooperative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology.