Can we Monitor Biodiversity as Complex Endpoint for Ecological Risk Assessment?
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| Year of publication | 2006 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | TIES 2006, 17h International Conference on Qualitative Methods for the Environmental Sciences |
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| Field | Ecology |
| Keywords | biodiversity; ecological risk assesment; abudance modelling |
| Description | Monitoring of biological communities has become a standard approach in evaluation of both terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems and biodiversity was accepted as indispensable component of ecosystem quality. Indeed, biodiversity seems to bear some value that can be communicated as final assessment endpoint, i.e. the value that can be meaningfully protected. |
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