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Design Elements of Monitoring Programs: The Necessary Ingredients for Success.
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Davis, Gary E. – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1993
Describes methods of designing natural resource monitoring programs to provide indications of ecosystem health, define limits of normal variation, identify abnormal conditions, and suggest potential agent of abnormal change. (MDH)
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Evaluation Methods
Data, Data Everywhere but Not a Byte to Read: Managing Monitoring Information.
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Stafford, Susan G. – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1993
Describes the Forest Science Data Bank that contains 2,400 data sets from over 350 existing ecological studies. Database features described include involvement of the scientific community; database documentation; data quality assurance; security; data access and retrieval; and data import/export flexibility. Appendices present the Quantitative…
Descriptors: Data, Databases, Ecology, Environmental Education
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Monitoring Programs: Defining Questions and Establishing Objectives.
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Stout, Benjamin B. – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1993
Presents aids to assist the design and monitoring of natural resource systems. Defines and describes hypergeometric systems; discusses monitoriing objectives and classifies monitoring programs. (MDH)
Descriptors: Ecology, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Evaluation Methods
Comparative Environmental Threat Analysis: Three Case Studies.
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Latour, J. B.; Reiling, R. – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1994
Reviews how carrying capacity for different environmental problems is operationalized. Discusses whether it is possible to compare threats, using the exceeding of carrying capacity as a yardstick. Points out problems in comparative threat analysis using three case studies: threats to European groundwater resources, threats to ecosystems in Europe,…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Ecology, Environmental Education
Statistical Approaches to Environmental Monitoring: Did We Teach the Wrong Things?
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Conquest, Loveday L. – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment, 1993
Presents two statistical topics and examples of their use in natural resource monitoring. The first topic deals with use of correlated observations in calculations of variance estimates for a regional mean, required sample size determination, and confidence intervals. The second topic concerns the use of Bayesian techniques in hypothesis testing.…
Descriptors: Bayesian Statistics, Environmental Education, Environmental Research, Evaluation Methods