Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Field Evaluations of Sampling Methods for Long-term Monitoring of Upland Ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Field-based Evaluations of Sampling Methods for Long-term Monitoring of Upland Ecosystems on the Colorado Plateau
Author: Mark Eugene MillerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado Plateau
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Field-based Evaluations of Sampling Techniques to Support Long-term Monitoring of Riparian Ecosystems Along Wadeable Streams on the Colorado Plateau
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental monitoring
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
The Colorado Plateau IV
Author: Charles Van RiperPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816529148
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Roughly centered on the Four Corners region of the southwestern United States, the Colorado Plateau covers some 130,000 square miles of sparsely vegetated plateaus, mesas, canyons, arches, and cliffs in Arizona, Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico. With elevations ranging from 3,000 to 14,000 feet, the natural systems found within the plateau are dramatically varied, from desert to alpine conditions. This book focuses on the integration of science and resource management issues in this unique and highly varied environment. Broken into three subsections, this volume addresses conservation biology, biophysical resources, and inventory and monitoring concerns. The chapters range in content, addressing conservation issuesÑpast, present, and futureÑon the Colorado Plateau, measurement of human impacts on resources, grazing and wildland-urban interfaces, and tools and methods for monitoring habitats and species. An informative read for people interested in the conservation and natural history of the region, the book will also serve as a valuable reference for those people engaged in the management of cultural and biological resources of the Colorado Plateau, as well as scientists interested in methods and tools for land and resource management throughout the West.
Application of Threshold Concepts in Natural Resource Decision Making
Author: Glenn R. GuntenspergenPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1489980415
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
Natural resource managers face a complex decision-making environment characterized by the potential occurrence of rapid and abrupt ecological change. These abrupt changes are poorly accommodated by traditional natural resource planning and decision-making processes. As recognition of threshold processes has increased, contemporary models of ecological systems have been modified to better represent a broader range of ecological system dynamics. Key conceptual advances associated with the ideas of non-linear responses, the existence of multiple ecological stable states and critical thresholds are more likely the rule than the exception in ecological systems. Once an ecological threshold is crossed, the ecosystem in question is not likely to return to its previous state. There are many examples and a general consensus that climatic disruptions will drive now stable systems across ecological thresholds. This book provides professional resource managers with a broad general decision framework that illustrates the utility of including ecological threshold concepts in natural resource management. It gives an entry into the literature in this rapidly evolving concept, with descriptions and discussion of the promising statistical approaches for threshold detection and demonstrations of the utility of the threshold framework via a series of case studies.
Southwest Ecological Restoration Institutes (SWERI) Biophysical Monitoring Workshop Report
Author: Integrated Upland Monitoring Protocol for the Southern Colorado Plateau Network
Author: National ServicePublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781514625132
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
The National Park Service, Natural Resource Stewardship and Science office in Fort Collins, Colorado publishes a range of reports that address natural resource topics of interest and applicability to a broad audience in the National Park Service and others in natural resource management, including scientists, conservation and environmental constituencies, and the public. Vegetation composition and structure, soil stability, and upland hydrologic function were selected as core vital signs for long-term monitoring within the Southern Colorado Plateau Network (SCPN).The network will monitor vegetation and soils within predominant upland vegetation types across most SCPN parks. The integrated upland monitoring protocol consists of a narrative, 14 Standard Operating Procedures and 6 appendices. The narrative portion of the protocol describes the rationale for monitoring upland vegetation and soils, establishes specific monitoring objectives, and provides an overview of the monitoring efforts. The Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) provide detailed descriptions of all activities related to vegetation and soils monitoring. Monitoring methods outlined in this protocol apply to the full range of targeted upland vegetation types occurring within SCPN parks, from semi-arid grasslands and shrub steppe at lower elevations, through pinyon-juniper woodlands at mid-elevations, to montane forests and meadows at higher elevations.
Field-based Evaluation of Two Herbaceous Plant Community Sampling Methods for Long-term Monitoring in Northern Great Plains National Parks
Author: Amy J. SymstadIntegrating Ecosystem Sampling, Gradient Modeling, Remote Sensing, and Ecosystem Simulation to Create Spatially Explicit Landscape Inventories
Author: Robert E. KeanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ecosystem management
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
Field Sampling Methods for Remedial Investigations
Author: Mark E. ByrnesPublisher:
ISBN: 9781032033013
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
This long awaited third edition provides most current and most cost-effective environmental media characterization methods and approaches supporting all aspects of remediation activities.