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Pulsed Monitoring for Watershed and Stream Restoration
Author(s) -
Bryant Mason D.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
fisheries
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1548-8446
pISSN - 0363-2415
DOI - 10.1577/1548-8446(1995)020<0006:pmfwas>2.0.co;2
Subject(s) - watershed , environmental science , habitat , term (time) , accountability , environmental resource management , computer science , hydrology (agriculture) , remote sensing , geography , ecology , geology , political science , machine learning , biology , physics , geotechnical engineering , quantum mechanics , law
Long‐term habitat degradation has increased public recognition of the need for watershed and stream habitat restoration. With such recognition is the demand for accountability, but the effects of restoration and recovery of watersheds are complex and long‐term. A monitoring program that provides sufficient information to evaluate the effectiveness of these efforts will be expensive. A pulsed monitoring strategy that consists of a series of short‐term (3–5 years), high‐intensity studies separated by longer periods (10–15 years) of low‐density data collection can provide an effective means of implementing a long‐term monitoring program with a reasonable degree of success and cost.