About the Author
David E. Busch is biologist with the U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center in Portland, Oregon.
Joel C. Trexler is associate professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at Florida International University in Miami.
Table of Contents
The importance of monitoring in regional ecosystem initiatives / David E. Busch and Joel C. Trexler -- Conceptual issues in monitoring ecological resources / Barry R. Noon -- Design of an ecological monitoring strategy for the forest plan in the Pacific northwest / Paul L. Ringold ... et al. -- Monitoring for adaptive management of the Colorado River Ecosystem in Glen and Grand Canyons / Lawrence E. Stevens and Barry D. Gold -- Science strategy for a regional ecosystem monitoring and assessment program: the Florida Everglades example / John C. Ogden, Steven M. Davis, and Laura A. Brandt -- The use of models for a multiscaled ecological monitoring system / Donald L. DeAngelis ... et al. -- Role of knowledge-based systems in analysis and communication of monitoring data / Keith M. Reynolds and Gordon H. Reeves -- Approaches to quality assurance and information management for regional ecological monitoring programs / Craig J. Palmer -- Estimation of change in populations and communities from monitoring survey data / John R. Sauer, William A. Link, and James D. Nichols -- Competing goals of spatial and temporal resolution: monitoring seagrass communities on a regional scale / James W. Fourqurean and Leanne M. Rutten -- Late-successional forest monitoring in the pacific northwest / Miles A. Hemstrom -- Monitoring wetland ecosystems using avian populations: seventy years of surveys in the Everglades / Peter Frederick and John C. Ogden -- Setting and monitoring restoration goals in the absence of historical data: the case of fishes in the Florida Everglades / Joel C. Trexler, William F. Loftus, and John H. Chick -- Monitoring biodiversity for ecoregional initiatives / William L. Gaines, Richy J. Harrod, and John F. Lehmkuh -- Monitoring, assessment, and ecoregional initiatives: a synthesis / Joel C. Trexler and David E. Busch.