Monitoring Ecological Impacts Concepts and Practice in Flowing Waters [Hardcover]

Provides clear and useable protocols for the detection and measurement of human impacts on the environment.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.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.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.Part I. Introduction to the Nature of Monitoring Problemslóú