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‘Monitoring’ has become an omnibus term and is sometimes applied, almost indiscriminately, to a range of disparate activities. Amongst these one may include, for example, attempts at describing prevailing environmental conditions; the occurrence, distribution and intensity of pollution; the status of ecological communities or populations of species; or simply providing a watching brief on the countryside at large.
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Hellawell, J.M. (1991). Development of a rationale for monitoring. In: Goldsmith, B. (eds) Monitoring for Conservation and Ecology. Conservation Biology, vol 3. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3086-8_1
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