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Environmental issues such as global change, acidic deposition, and toxic wastes will continue to be of great economic, political, and social concern during the coming decades. Ecological pressures on the earth’s limited natural resources will increase as human activities continue to alter the earth’s ecosystems. Part of the problem in the past has been the tradition of dealing independently with environmental issues related to land, air, and water resources. Because these components of the environment are intricately linked and often codependent, dealing with them independently has often led to the environmental degradation of both natural and developed areas (Viessman, 1990). The challenge of develo** an effective monitoring program and selecting key ecological indicators is to integrate all resources in order to provide quantitative assessments of the effects of pollutants and environmental change on all ecosystem components.
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Mouat, D.A., Fox, C.A., Rose, M.R. (1992). Ecological Indicator Strategy for Monitoring Arid Ecosystems. In: McKenzie, D.H., Hyatt, D.E., McDonald, V.J. (eds) Ecological Indicators. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4659-7_41
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