Forest ecosystem indicators: Monitoring, assessment, prediction (FEIMAP)

Technical Report · Tue Sep 01 04:00:00 EDT 1998

OSTI ID:6482620

Brown, S; Anderson, C; Beedlow, P; Cairns, M; Hogsett, B

The authors present a plan for a long-term research project to support several of the Agency's research needs with reference to forests. Specifically, the overall goal of this plan is to develop and evaluate ecological indicators that support (1) EMAP's need for forest indicators of ecological integrity and sustainability, (2) the Global Change program's need for indicators of global change, and (3) risk assessment and risk management protocols. The authors consider ecological indicators to include predictive models to identify potential risks to global change and air pollutants, stress-response functions, methods, and measures and their behavior over time and space. These indicators can be used to assess and monitor change and trends in the condition of forest resources, link changes to likely stressors, predict response of forests to future environmental change, and identify early warning signals.

• Research Organization: National Health and Environmental Effects Research Lab., Western Ecology Div., Corvallis, OR (United States)
• OSTI ID: 6482620
• Report Number(s): PB-99-148611/XAB; EPA--600/R-99/038
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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