Detecting ecological impacts : concepts and applications in coastal habitats / edited by Russell J. Schmitt, Craig W. Osenberg.

Other author Schmitt, Russell J.
Other author Osenberg, Craig W.
Format Book
Publication InfoSan Diego : Academic Press, ©1996.
Descriptionxx, 401 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects
Ecological risk assessment.
Environmental monitoring.
Coastal ecology.

Contents Detecting ecological impacts caused by human activities / Craig W. Osenberg and Russel J. Schmitt -- Goals in environmental monitoring / Allan Stwart-Oaten -- Criteria for selecting marine organisms in biomonitoring studies / Geoffrey P. Jones and Ursula L. Kaly -- Impacts on soft-sediment macrofauna: the effects of spatial variation on temporal trends / Simon F. Thrush, Richard D. Pridmore, and Judi E. Hewitt -- Scalable decision criteria for environmental impact assessment: effect size, type I, and type II errors / Bruce D. Mapstone -- Detection of environmental impacts: natural variability, effect size, and power analysis / Craig W. Osenberg, Russell J. Schmitt, etc... -- Problems in the analysis of environmental monitoring data / Allan Stewart-Oaten
Contents [Con't] -- Estimating the size of an effect from a before-after-control-impact paired series design: the predictive approach applied to a power plant study / James R. Bence, Allan Stwart-Oaten, and Stephen C. Schroeter -- On beyond BACI: sampling designs that might reliably detect environmental disturbances -- Determining the spatial extent of ecological impacts caused by local anthropogenic distrubances in coastal marine habitats / Peter T. Raimondi and Daniel C. Reed -- Predicting the scale of marine impacts: understanding planktonic links between populations / Michael J. Keough and Kerry P. Black -- Influence of pollutants and oceanography on abundance and deformities of wild fish Larvae / Michael J. Kingsford and Charles A. Gray -- Consequences for adult fish stocks of human-induced mortality on immatures / Roger M. Nisbet, William W. Murdoch, and Allan Stewart-Oaten -- The art and science of administrative environmental impact assessment / Russell J. SChmitt, Craig W. Osenberg, etc... -- On the adequacy and improvement of marine benthic pre-impact surveys: examples from the gulf of Mexico outer continental shelf / Robert S. CArney -- Organizational constraints on environmental impact assessment research / Frederick M. Piltz -- Administrative, legal, and public policy constraints on environmental impact assessment / Charles Lester -- Predicted on observed environmental impacts: can we foretell ecological change? / Richard F. Ambrose, Russell J. Schmitt, and Craig W. Osenberg.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
LCCN 95018309
ISBN0126272557 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks QH541.15.R57 D48 1996 ✔ Available Place Hold