Effective Ecological Monitoring [Paperback]

Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoringdescribes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist.

The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, illustrating key aspects of effective monitoring with case studies and examples. It includes new sections comparing surveillance-based and question-based monitoring, analyzing environmental observation networks, and provides examples of adaptive monitoring.

Based on the authors 80 years of collective experience in running long-term research and monitoring programs, Effective Ecological Monitoringis a valuable resource for the natural resource management, ecological and environmental science and policy communities.Acknowledgments
Preface to Second Edition
1: Introduction
Some of the ecological values and uses of long-term datasets
Poor record of long-term ecological monitoring
Why we wrote this book
2: Why monitoring fails
Characteristics of ineffective monitoring programs
Other factors contributing to ineffective monitoring programs
3: What makes long-term monitoring effective?
Characteristics of effective monitoring programs
Little things matter a lot! Some 'tricks of the trade'
The adaptive monitoring framework
4: The problematic, the effective and the ugly  some case studies
The problematic
The effective
Need to wait and see
The ugly
5: The upshot  our general conclusions
Changes in culture needed to facilitate monitoring
Good things that can come frols