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    <title>Monitoring ecological change</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Spellerberg, Ian F</namePart>
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    <publisher>Cambridge University Press</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2005</dateIssued>
    <edition>2nd ed</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xvii, 391 p. : ill., ; 26 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>An introduction to ecological monitoring, providing both a  rationale for monitoring and a practical guide to the  techniques available.</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Ecological  monitoring; 2. Environmental monitoring programmes and  organizations; 3. State of the environment reporting and  ecological monitoring; 4. Biological and spatial scales  in ecological monitoring; 5. Biological indicators and  indices; 6. Diversity and similarity indices; 7. Planning  and designing ecological monitoring; 8. Community-based  ecological monitoring; 9. Ecological monitoring of  species and biological communities; 10. Ecological  monitoring and environmental impact assessments; Appendix  1. Acronyms used in the text; Appendix 2. The 1992  Convention on Biological Diversity; References; Index.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Ian F. Spellerberg</note>
  <note>Previous ed.: 1991</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Environmental monitoring</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc">363.7</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0521527287 (pbk.)</identifier>
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