David B. Lindenmayer is a Research Professor at The Australian National University in Canberra. He has published more than 20 books and over 500 scientific articles in international journals. Gene E. Likens is an ecologist best known for discovering acid rain in North America, for co-founding the Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study and the Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York. He holds faculty positions at Yale, Cornell and Rutgers Universities, State University of New York at Albany, and University of Connecticut and was awarded the 2001 National Medal of Science. He is the author, co-author or editor of 29 books and over 580 scientific papers and articles.
CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 2. WHY MONITORING FAILS
CHAPTER 3. WHAT MAKES EFFECTIVE LONG-TERM MONITORING?
CHAPTER 4. THE PROBLEMATIC, THE EFFECTIVE AND THE UGLY - SOME CASE STUDIES
CHAPTER 5 . THE UPSHOT - OUR GENERAL CONCLUSIONS
