Tabla de Contenidos:
  • A Review of the Biomonitoring o Environmental Status and Trends Program: The Draft Detailed Plan
  • Copyright
  • Other Recent Reports of the Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • OVERVIEW OF THE FWS BIOMONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS AND TRENDS PROGRAM
  • THREE KEY ASPECTS OF THE PROGRAM
  • COMMITTEE'S EVALUATION OF THE PROGRAM'S DETAILED PLAN
  • SUMMARY OF RECOMMENDATIONS
  • Problem Identification
  • Causality
  • Management
  • CONCLUSION
  • 1 Introduction
  • THE BIOMONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL STATUS AND TRENDS PROGRAMWhat Is the Program?
  • What are the Goals of the Program?
  • How Will the Program Achieve Its Goals?
  • What Is the Schedule for Implementation of the Program?
  • WHAT ABOUT MONITORING PROGRAMS AT OTHER AGENCIES?
  • HISTORY OF TOXIC-SUBSTANCE PROGRAMS AT FWS
  • Toxic-Substance Concerns with Respect to FWS Trust Resources
  • Pesticide-Contamination Programs
  • Resource-Assessment Programs
  • Evaluations of FWS Contamination Programs
  • MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN THE PROGRAM
  • PURPOSE OF THIS NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL STUDY2 Problem Identification
  • HOW DOES THE PROGRAM ADDRESS PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION?
  • WILL THE PROGRAM BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY PROBLEMS WELL ENOUGH AND EARLY ENOUGH TO BE USEFUL IN RELATION ...
  • Identifying Problems
  • Issues of Scale
  • Proposed Indicators and Methods on Trust Lands
  • Ability to Detect Emerging Problems
  • Information Integration and Use in Decision-Making
  • Ecological Action Levels
  • Collecting and Analyzing the Data
  • Problem Identification for Trust Species
  • WILL THE PROGRAM BE ABLE TO DEVELOP INFORMATION TO DETERMINE WHICH TRUST RESOURCES ARE DETERIORATINGâ€?Status and Trends on Trust Lands
  • Status and Trends of Key-Species Habitats
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • 3 Causality
  • HOW DOES THE PROGRAM ADDRESS CAUSALITY?
  • WILL THE PROGRAM BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY CAUSES OF OBSERVED CHANGES?
  • Risk Assessment and Prediction
  • Causal Inference
  • Statistical Design and Data Collection
  • Tiered Approach
  • Validation
  • EXAMPLES OF ASSESSMENTS OF CAUSES
  • Models
  • Pilot Studies
  • WILL THE PROGRAM PERMIT THE FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE TO DISTINGUISH THE IMPACTS OF TOXIC SUBSTANCES ... CONCLUSIONS
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • 4 Management
  • MANAGEMENT ISSUES IN THE PROGRAM
  • ADMINISTRATIVE STRUCTURE
  • Evaluation
  • Recommendations
  • PARTNERSHIPS
  • Evaluation
  • Recommendations
  • DATA MANAGEMENT
  • Evaluation
  • Recommendations
  • OUTREACH
  • Evaluation
  • Recommendations
  • PROGRAM PHASING AND DEVELOPMENT
  • Evaluation
  • Recommendations
  • COST EFFECTIVENESS
  • Evaluation
  • Recommendations
  • CONCLUSIONS