Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales: Proceedings of the 3rd Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), Albany, NY, U. S. A., April 8-11, 1997

This volume presents the proceedings of a symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), held in Albany, NY, USA, in April, 1997. A research program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EMAP has been advancing the state of the science in ecological indicator development, statistical sampling design, landscape characterization, and other tools of environmental monitoring since the program's inception in the late 1980s. EMAP's goal is to develop and demonstra...