Integrated environmental monitoring at remote ecosystems
Year: 1988
Type: report
Abstract: The first annual report reviews progress to date on the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory(INEL) research project, Integrated Ecosystem and Pollutant Monitoring at Remote Wilderness Study Sites.'' The two primary objectives of this study are to apply, field test, and conceptually evaluate the US Forest Service guidelines for remote ecosystem monitoring and to provide an ongoing database on selected high-elevation ecosystem attributes, including physical, chemical, and biological parameters. The basic criteria for evaluation of the guidelines are usability, cost-effectiveness, data variability, alternative approaches, ecosystem conceptual approach, and quality assurance. The goal of the project is to identify a list of pollutant measurements and ecological attributes that will provide good, quality-assured data about a particular ecosystem. The present report covers each of the major components of the Forest Service guidelines except for regulatory and management constraints and visibility, which are not part of this project. Therefore, progress to date is provided as separate sections of the report for each of the following components: atomspheric environment, soils, aquatic chemistry, aquatic biology, salmonid fish, and plants (including forest ecosystem). 24 refs., 66 figs., 28 tabs.
DOI: 10.2172/6922479
Authors: D Bruns, T O'Rourke, C Staley, G White, G Wiersma, G Baker, M Harmon, B Smith, J Clayton, S Greene
Institutions: Oregon State University, US Forest Service
Language: English
Subfield: Geology
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
SDG: Life on land
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W59444602