Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change

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Ecological indicators and surrogates are used widely by resource managers to monitorand understand complex biota and ecosystem processes. Their potential to guide complexresource management has meant they have been proposed for use in all ecosystemsworldwide. Yet despite extensive research into indicators and surrogates, there remains muchcontroversy about their use, in addition to major issues and knowledge gaps associated withtheir identification, testing and application.

Indicators and Surrogates of Biodiversity and Environmental Change provides insights into theuse of indicators and surrogates in natural resource management and conservation whereto use them, where not to use them, and how they can best be used in cases where they areproposed for application.