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Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats
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Edited By
Russell Schmitt, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A.
Craig Osenberg, University of Florida, Gainesville, U.S.A.
Description
Detecting Ecological Impacts: Concepts and Applications in Coastal Habitats focuses on crucial aspects of detecting local
and regional impacts that result from human activities. Detection and characterization of ecological impacts require scientific approaches
that can reliably separate the effects of a specific anthropogenic activity from those of other processes. This fundamental goal is both
technically and operationally challenging. Detecting Ecological Impacts is devoted to the conceptual and technical underpinnings
that allow for reliable estimates of ecological effects caused by human activities. An international team of scientists focuses on the
development and application of scientific tools appropriate for estimating the magnitude and spatial extent of ecological impacts. The
contributors also evaluate our current ability to forecast impacts. Some of the scientific, legal, and administrative constraints that
impede these critical tasks also are highlighted. Coastal marine habitats are emphasized, but the lessons and insights have general application
to all ecological systems.
Audience
Ecologists and marine biologists, especially those with applied interests, environmental scientists and consultants, resources managers,
and policy makers. Graduate students and advanced undergraduates in these disciplines arealso part of the intended audience. University
libraries and environmental consulting firms are likely buyers. Likely to be of broad interest in many related areas.
Contents
An Introduction to Ecological Impact Assessment: Principles and Goals:
C.W. Osenberg and R.J. Schmitt, Detecting
Ecological Impacts Caused by Human Activities.A. Stewart-Oaten, Goals in Environmental Monitoring.G.P. Jones and U.L.
Kaly, Criteria for Selecting Marine Organisms in Biomonitoring Studies.S.F. Thrush, R.D. Pridmore, and J.E. Hewitt, Impacts
on Soft-Sediment Macrofauna: The Effects of Spatial Variation on Temporal Trends.B.D. Mapstone, Scalable Decision Criteria
for Environmental Impact Assessment: Effect, Size, Type I, and Type II Errors.
Improving Field Assessments of Local Impacts:
Before-After-Control-Impact Designs:
C.W. Osenberg, R.J. Schmitt, S.J.Holbrook, K.E. Abu-Saba, and A.R. Flegal, Detection
of Environmental Impacts: Natural Variability, Effect Size and Power Analysis.A. Stewart-Oaten, Problems in the Analysis of
Environmental Monitoring Data.J.R. Bence, A. Stewart-Oaten, and S.C. Schroeter, Estimating the Size of an Effect from Before-After-Control-Impact-Pairs
Design: The Predictive Approach Applied to a Power Plant Study.A.J. Underwood, On Beyond BACI: Sampling Designs That Might
Reliably DetectEnvironmental Disturbances.
Extension of Local Impacts to Larger Scale Consequences:
P.T. Raimondi
and D.C. Reed, Determining the Spatial Extent of Ecological Impacts Caused by Local Anthropogenic Disturbances in Coastal Marine
Habitats.M.J. Keough and K.P. Black, Predicting the Scale of Marine Impacts: Understanding Planktonic Links between Populations.
M.J. Kingsford and C.A. Gray, Influence of Pollutants and Oceanography on Abundance and Deformities of Wild Fish Larvae.R.M.
Nisbet, W.W. Murdoch, and A. Stewart-Oaten, Consequences for Adult Fish Stocks of Human-Induced Mortality on Immatures.
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Link between Administrative Environmental Impact Studies and Well-Designed Field Assessments:
R.J. Schmitt, C.W. Osenberg,
W.J. Douros, and J. Chesson, The Art and Science of Administrative Environmental Impact Assessment.R.S. Carney, On the
Adequacy and Improvement of Marine Benthic Pre-Impact Surveys: Examples from the Gulf of Mexico Outer Continental Shelf.F.M. Piltz,
Organization Constraits on Environmental Impact Assessment Research.C. Lester, Administrative, Legal, and Public Policy Constraints
on Environmental Impact Assessment.R.F. Ambrose, R.J. Schmitt, and C.W. Osenberg, Predicted and Observed Environmental Impacts:
Can We Foretell Ecological Change?
Glossary.
Author Index.
Subject Index.
| Bibliographic details |
Hardbound, 401 pages, publication date: JAN-1996
ISBN-13: 978-0-12-627255-0
ISBN-10: 0-12-627255-7
Imprint: ACADEMIC PRESS
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