Application of Ecological Indicators

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

1948 • 73,365 citations

A Mathematical Theory of Communication

1948 • 39,028 citations

The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital

1997 • 20,169 citations

The Mathematical Theory of Communication

1950 • 10,269 citations

The Mathematical Theory of Communication

1948 • 10,147 citations

SPECIES ASSEMBLAGES AND INDICATOR SPECIES:THE NEED FOR A FLEXIBLE ASYMMETRICAL APPROACH

1997 • 6,537 citations

Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

1998 • 5,300 citations

Ecology: The Experimental Analysis of Distribution and Abundance

1973 • 4,709 citations

Indicators for Monitoring Biodiversity: A Hierarchical Approach

1990 • 3,050 citations

Revisiting the Commons: Local Lessons, Global Challenges

1999 • 2,751 citations

Assessment of Biotic Integrity Using Fish Communities

1981 • 2,604 citations

Density as a Misleading Indicator of Habitat Quality

1983 • 2,441 citations

The Niche Exploitation Pattern of the Blue‐Gray Gnatcatcher

1967 • 1,789 citations

A Note on Trophic Complexity and Community Stability

1969 • 1,631 citations

METALLOTHIONEIN

1986 • 1,606 citations

Indices of landscape pattern

1988 • 1,570 citations

An Improved Bacterial Test System for the Detection and Classification of Mutagens and Carcinogens

1973 • 1,519 citations

Flagships, umbrellas, and keystones: Is single-species management passé in the landscape era?

1998 • 1,506 citations

Monitoring of biological diversity in space and time

2001 • 1,331 citations

From space to species: ecological applications for remote sensing

2003 • 1,321 citations

Challenges in the development and use of ecological indicators

2001 • 1,299 citations

Focal Species: A Multi‐Species Umbrella for Nature Conservation

1997 • 1,092 citations

Assessing biological integrity in running waters : a method and its rationale

1986 • 949 citations

Indicators of Biodiversity for Ecologically Sustainable Forest Management

2000 • 905 citations

Usefulness of the Umbrella Species Concept as a Conservation Tool

2004 • 890 citations

A framework for the practical application of the concepts of critical natural capital and strong sustainability

2003 • 851 citations

Human Population: The Next Half Century

2003 • 839 citations

Creating landscape patterns by forest cutting: Ecological consequences and principles

1987 • 831 citations

Biomarkers: Biochemical, Physiological, and Histological Markers of Anthropogenic Stress

1992 • 792 citations

Ecological Uses of Vertebrate Indicator Species: A Critique

1988 • 770 citations

Biomarkers: Biochemical, physiological, and histological markers of anthropogenic stress

1993 • 753 citations

The selection, testing and application of terrestrial insects as bioindicators

1998 • 723 citations

A Critical Analysis

1995 • 671 citations

The Reference Condition: A Comparison of Multimetric and Multivariate Approaches to Assess Water-Quality Impairment Using Benthic Macroinvertebrates

1997 • 644 citations

A Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity (B‐IBI) for Rivers of the Tennessee Valley

1994 • 573 citations

Nature's Services: Societal Dependence on Natural Ecosystems

1998 • 560 citations

Plan B 2.0: rescuing a planet under stress and a civilization in trouble

2006 • 540 citations

Effects of fire on landscape heterogeneity in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming

1994 • 531 citations

The Pisaster‐Tegula Interaction: Prey Patches, Predator Food Preference, and Intertidal Community Structure

1969 • 502 citations

A proposed framework for developing indicators of ecosystem health

1993 • 482 citations

Assessing and monitoring forest biodiversity: A suggested framework and indicators

1999 • 474 citations

Species and Stand Response to Catastrophic Wind in Central New England, U.S.A.

1988 • 431 citations

Diatoms: powerful indicators of environmental change

1992 • 415 citations

A theoretical foundation to support the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW), Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), and other related indexes

2003 • 408 citations

Applicability of landscape metrics for the monitoring of landscape change: issues of scale, resolution and interpretability

2002 • 397 citations

Regional Application of an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Stream Fish Communities

1984 • 392 citations

A critique of ecosystem health concepts and indexes

1993 • 347 citations

CARNIVORES AS FOCAL SPECIES FOR CONSERVATION PLANNING IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN REGION

2001 • 345 citations

Effects of Moose Browsing on Vegetation and Litter of the Boreal Forest, Isle Royale, Michigan, USA

1992 • 329 citations

The Puzzle of Declining Amphibian Populations

1995 • 305 citations

The Peregrine Falcon

1993 • 304 citations

Considerations for the development of a terrestrial index of ecological integrity

2001 • 276 citations

Developing indicators for environmental policy: data-driven and theory-driven approaches examined by example

2002 • 241 citations

BIRD GUILDS AS INDICATORS OF ECOLOGICAL CONDITION IN THE CENTRAL APPALACHIANS

2000 • 232 citations

Strategies for evaluating indicators based on guidelines from the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Research and Development

2001 • 229 citations

Ten common mistakes in designing biodiversity indicators for forest policy

2003 • 228 citations

TESTING THE FLORISTIC QUALITY ASSESSMENT INDEX AS AN INDICATOR OF WETLAND CONDITION

2002 • 227 citations

Phytoplankton Photopigments as Indicators of Estuarine and Coastal Eutrophication

2003 • 218 citations

Development and Evaluation of a Macroinvertebrate Biotic Integrity Index (MBII) for Regionally Assessing Mid-Atlantic Highlands Streams

2003 • 216 citations

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1999 • 209 citations

Ecological integrity: integrating environment, conservation, and health

2001 • 209 citations

Ecological Indicators for the Nation

2000 • 208 citations

Rare Species and the Use of Indicator Groups for Conservation Planning

2003 • 205 citations

Clonal Variation in General Responses of Daphnia magna Straus to Toxic Stress. I. Chronic Life-History Effects

1990 • 204 citations

Bird Populations as Indicators of Environmental Change

1986 • 201 citations

Applying an Index of Biotic Integrity Based on Stream-Fish Communities: Considerations in Sampling and Interpretation

1986 • 199 citations

A quantitative method for description & assessment of ecosystems: The AMOEBA-approach

1991 • 190 citations

The guild concept applied to management of bird populations

1984 • 189 citations

The State of the Nation

1984 • 177 citations

MONITORING FOR POLICY-RELEVANT REGIONALTRENDS OVER TIME

1998 • 170 citations

Use of avian and mammalian guilds as indicators of cumulative impacts in riparian-wetland areas

1991 • 159 citations

Evaluation guidelines for ecological indicators

2011 • 157 citations

NEW APPROACHES TO THE ANALYSIS OF POPULATION TRENDS IN LAND BIRDS: REPLY

1997 • 152 citations

Communicating Ecological Indicators to Decision Makers and the Public

2001 • 150 citations

Rationale for a New Generation of Indicators for Coastal Waters

2004 • 149 citations

Environmentally stratified sampling design for the development of Great Lakes environmental indicators

2005 • 142 citations

An Ecological Assessment of the United States Mid-Atlantic Region: A Landscape Atlas

1997 • 142 citations

EVALUATION OF A MULTIPLE-SPECIES APPROACH TO MONITORING SPECIES AT THE ECOREGIONAL SCALE

2004 • 139 citations

Ecological Indicators

1992 • 132 citations

The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems: Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States

2003 • 130 citations

Chlorophyll fluorescence as a bioindicator of effects on growth in aquatic macrophytes from mixtures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons

2001 • 130 citations

New Approaches to the Analysis of Population Trends in Land Birds

1996 • 130 citations

MACROBENTHIC RESPONSES TO NATURAL AND CONTAMINANT-RELATED GRADIENTS IN NORTHERN GULF OF MEXICO ESTUARIES

1997 • 129 citations

The Peregrine Falcon

1981 • 126 citations

EMPIRICAL VALIDATION OF A METHOD FOR UMBRELLA SPECIES SELECTION

2001 • 125 citations

Environmental Sustainability Index

2013 • 121 citations

APPLICATION OF 1-M AND 4-M RESOLUTION SATELLITE DATA TO ECOLOGICAL STUDIES OF TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS

2004 • 115 citations

An index of plant community integrity: development of the methodology for assessing prairie wetland plant communities

2003 • 112 citations

A methodology for inferring the causes of observed impairments in aquatic ecosystems

2002 • 112 citations

A Critical Analysis on the Use of Indicator Species in Management

1997 • 112 citations

The State of the Nation's Ecosystems: Measuring the lands, waters and living resources of the United States

2003 • 111 citations

Application of Sequence-Specific Labeled 16S rRNA Gene Oligonucleotide Probes for Genetic Profiling of Cyanobacterial Abundance and Diversity by Array Hybridization

2000 • 111 citations

Use of Indicator Species to Assess Forest Continuity: a Critique

2002 • 104 citations

Evaluating the California Gnatcatcher as an Umbrella Species for Conservation of Southern California Coastal Sage Scrub

2001 • 98 citations

Population genetic structure and ecotoxicology.

1994 • 98 citations

Structural and functional diversity of copper-metallothioneins from the American lobster Homarus americanus

1989 • 98 citations

Biological response signatures: indicator patterns using aquatic communities

2003 • 97 citations

Ecological indicators for the nation

2000 • 94 citations

A Framework for an Ecosystem Integrity Report Card

1999 • 93 citations

SELECTING INDICATOR TRAITS FOR MONITORING LAND USE IMPACTS: BIRDS IN NORTHERN COASTAL BIRCH FORESTS

2003 • 86 citations

Climate and satellite‐derived land cover for predicting breeding bird distribution in the Great Lakes Basin

2004 • 86 citations

Assessing Trends in Fishery Resources and Lake Water Aluminum from Paleolimnological Analyses of Siliceous Algae

1992 • 82 citations

The economic value of ecological stability

2003 • 78 citations

Biological Response Signatures

2002 • 78 citations

Diversity by Default

1999 • 75 citations

Assemblages of breeding birds as indicators of grassland condition

2002 • 73 citations

Bioenergetics-Based Model for Accumulation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls by Nestling Tree Swallows, Tachycineta bicolor

1995 • 71 citations

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2002 • 66 citations

Biomarkers of exposure of brown bullheads (Ameiurus nebulosus) to contaminants in the lower Great Lakes, North America

1999 • 66 citations

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2000 • 63 citations

Indicators of Ecological Stress and Their Extent in the Population of Northeastern Lakes: A Regional-Scale Assessment

2002 • 63 citations

Evaluating the California Gnatcatcher as an Umbrella Species for Conservation of Southern California Coastal Sage Scrub

2001 • 61 citations

TREE SWALLOWS (TACHYCINETA BICOLOR): A NEW MODEL ORGANISM?

2003 • 59 citations

Annual Variation in Bird Populations of Mixed Conifer-Northern Hardwood Forests

1994 • 56 citations

The development, use, and misuse of biocriteria with an emphasis on the index of biotic integrity

2000 • 55 citations

Assessment of Heavy Metal Contamination of Seawater and Marine Limpet,Patella vulgataL., from Northwest Spain

2003 • 54 citations

Ecological Indicators: Panacea or Liability?

1992 • 53 citations

Suppression of Antibody-Producing Cells in Rainbow Trout Spleen Sections Exposed to Copper in Vitro

1989 • 49 citations

Use of molecular probes to assess geographic distribution of Pfiesteria species.

2001 • 49 citations

USING “INDICATOR” SPECIES TO MODEL SPECIES RICHNESS: MODEL DEVELOPMENT AND PREDICTIONS

2002 • 48 citations

Modification and assessment of an index of biotic integrity to quantify water resource quality in great rivers

1995 • 46 citations

Evolution of Indicators of Ecosystem Health

1992 • 46 citations

Comparison of resolution of methods used in mapping biodiversity patterns from point-occurrence data

2003 • 43 citations

Development of multimetric indices of biotic integrity for riverine and palustrine wetland plant communities along Southern Lake Michigan

2001 • 41 citations

A CRITIQUE OF ECOSYSTEM HEALTH CONCEPTS AND INDEXES

1993 • 37 citations

The response of the feather moss, Pleurozium schreberi, to 5 years of simulated acid precipitation in the Canadian boreal forest

1988 • 36 citations

SUPPORTING BASIC ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH IN U.S. NATIONAL PARKS: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

2004 • 36 citations

REGIONAL SCALE TREND MONITORING OF INDICATORS OF TROPHIC CONDITION OF LAKES¹

1995 • 36 citations

Temporal and Spatial Variability as Neglected Ecosystem Properties: Lessons Learned From 12 North American Ecosystems

1995 • 34 citations

Developing and applying an index of environmental integrity for the US Mid-Atlantic region

2003 • 34 citations

Indicator Species

2001 • 32 citations

Guam: Paradise lost for wildlife

1984 • 32 citations

Environmental Monitoring

2004 • 31 citations

1. Amphibian Conservation

2021 • 29 citations

Choosing Ecological Indicators: Effects of Taxonomic Aggregation on Sensitivity to Stress and Natural Variability

1992 • 28 citations

Modification of an index of biotic integrity for assessing vernal ponds and small palustrine wetlands using fish, crayfish, and amphibian assemblages along southern Lake Michigan

2000 • 28 citations

Measuring Trends in Ecological Resources¹

1998 • 25 citations

Genetic susceptibility in ecosystems: the challenge for ecotoxicology.

1997 • 24 citations

Effects of an Experimental Lake Acidification on Zooplankton Feeding Rates and Selectivity

1990 • 23 citations

Population biology: Evolution of pesticide resistance

1985 • 22 citations

Just ecological integrity: the ethics of maintaining planetary life

2003 • 20 citations

DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES ARE POOR INDICATORS OF WOOD THRUSH PRODUCTIVITY

2002 • 20 citations

Shrub species as indicators of wetland sedimentation

2003 • 16 citations

Sources of error in epiphytic lichen variables mapped as bioindicators: needs to modify the Finnish standard

2003 • 13 citations

Monitoring with Biomarkers: A Multi-Tiered Framework for Evaluating the Ecological Impacts of Contaminants

1992 • 8 citations

Building a Foundation for Sound Environmental Decisions

1997 • 7 citations

Identification and Use of Plant Species as Ecological Indicators of Air Pollution Stress in National Park Units

1992 • 6 citations

Call for 'Sustainability' in Forests Sparks a Fire

1999 • 4 citations

Managing Troubled Waters

1990 • 3 citations

Biomarkers of Environmental Exposure and Multivariate Approaches for Assessment and Monitoring

1992 • 1 citations