Ecological indicator

Ecological indicator

Ecological indicators are used to communicate information about ecosystems and the impact human activity has on ecosystems to groups such as the public or government policy makers. Ecosystems are complex and ecological indicators can help describe them in simpler terms that can be understood and used by non-scientists to make management decisions. For example, the number of different beetle taxa found in a field can be used as an indicator of biodiversity.
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=External Links=

* [http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/ej/jpe/ Journal of Political Ecology]
* [http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/articles/publications/journals/ Journals of the British Ecological Society]
* [http://www.ieem.org.uk/ Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management]
* [http://www.ecologyandsociety.org/ Ecology and Society]
* [http://dmoz.org/Science/Biology/Ecology/Consultants/ Ecology Consultants] from the open directory project

=See Also=


* Ecological science
* Ecology movement
* Ecosystem valuation
* Ecological yield
* Deep ecology
* Human ecology
* Systems ecology
* Ecosystem ecology
* Ecoinformatics
* Ecosystem
* Environmental impact assessment
* Strategic Environmental Assessment
* Social impact assessment
* Vulnerability assessment
* Arctic Climate Impact Assessment
* National Assessment on Climate Change
* Millennium Ecosystem Assessment
* Four-Step Impact Assessment
* Environmental ethics
* Environmental economics
* Indicator plants
* Indicator species
* Wastewater Quality Indicators
* Genuine Progress Indicator
* Key Success Indicator
* Sustainability
* Assessment
* Evaluation
* Policy
* Bioaccumulation
* Soil food web
* Soil ecology
* Conservation biology
* Environmental Assessment Institute
* Durrell Institute of Conservation and Ecology
* Institute for Social Ecology
* Timeline of environmental events


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