Spellerberg I.F. Monitoring Ecological Change

Cambridge University Press, 2005. — 411 p. — 2nd ed. — ISBN: 0521820286, 9780511127298It is just over a decade since Monitoring Ecological Change was first published. During that time there have been a number of developments that have implications for ecological monitoring in theory and in practice. Three devel- opments in particular stand out as being relevant to ecological monitoring. They are not new but there appears to have been a growth in activity of both. One is in the area of state of the environment reports; the second is in the area of community-based environmental and ecological monitoring; and, third, there is the extent of ecological and environmental monitoring that takes place because of international agreements and conventions.