Thoughts on Integrated Monitoring of Ecological Environment at Provincial Level

作     者：PENGHong JackE.Coster SONGXiao-qiang PENG Hong~(1,2),Jack E. Coster~(1,3),SONG Xiao-qiang~1 (1.Shaanxi Provincial Bureau of Soil and Water Conservation,Xi’an 710004,China;2.College of Life Science,Northwest Sci-tech University of Agriculture and Forestry,Yangling 712100,Shaanxi,China;3.West Virginia University,Morgantown,West Virginia,U.S.A.)

作者机构：ShaanxiProvincialBureauofSoilandWaterConservationXi＇an710004China WestVirginiaUniversityMorgantownWestVirginiaU.S.A. 

出 版 物：《水土保持研究》 (Research of Soil and Water Conservation)

年 卷 期：2004年第11卷第2期

页      面：27-32页

学科分类：07[理学] 09[农学] 0903[农学-农业资源与环境] 0713[理学-生态学] 

基　　金：the Scientific Research Foundation for the Returned Overseas Chinese Scholars State Education Ministry"Response ofForest Regeneration in Alpine Region to Global Climate Change"( 2 0 0 2 -2 0 0 4) Shaanxi Provincial Foreign Expert Bu-reau"Trial on Vegetation Rehabilitation in Degraded Mountain Ecosystem"( 2 0 0 2 -2 0 0 3 ) 

主　　题：ecological environment province wide monitoring project level sampling design implementation program 

摘      要：The Law of Soil and Water Conservation entitles the administrations of water resources at various level to monitor ecological environment and to proclaim status of soil erosion *** units of soil and water conservation approved by local governments are obliged to undertake this *** to develop a monitoring program needs an overall and long-term *** and objectives of ecological environment monitoring was discussed. Monitoring at provincial level may be divided into two levels:province-wide and at project level. Those indicators meaningful,sensitive to any disturbances,and simple to measure may be selected to test status of ecosystem stability and *** makes sense to have an integrated sampling design,to set up permanent observation plots and to collect data, so that to have a relative timely,accurate understanding of ecosystems in the province.A program regarding sampling design,field methods, data analysis,documentation and implementation was detailed.