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Contents Robert Lewis Jr. Sidney Draggan Keynote Speech .................................................................................................................... 1 A Welcome Reunion .............................................................................................................. 2 Subject I Global Environmental Change Thomas J. Stohlgren Thomas Brydges Marfa de Lourdes de Bauer Thomas F. Malone Luis Manuel Guerra Global Change Impacts in Nature Reserves in the United States ......................................... 5 Ecological Change and the Challenges for Monitoring ....................................................... 10 Algunos Aspectos del Cambio Global Desde la Perspectiva Mexicana .............................. 11 Global Change and the Prospects for Humanity in the Knowledge Age ............................. 16 Comunicacion Ambiental y Recursos Naturales ................................................................. 22 Subject II Science and Technology Applications H. Todd Mowrer Charles A. Troendle Gerhard Hunner Spatial Data Infrastructure and Geostatistical Analysis of Forest Canopy-Hydrologic Interactions, at the Fraser Experimental Forest, Colorado, USA ................................... 25 Robin M. Reich C. Aguirre-Bravo M. Kalkhan Vanessa A. Bravo Spatially Based Forest Inventory Approach for Ejido el Largo, Chihuahua, Mexico ........... 31 Rafael Moreno-Sanchez Celedonio Aguirre-Bravo Anita Hoover Johnell Geddes Frederick Couch Design and Implementation Strategy for the Creation of a Basic GIS Infrastructure for Supporting Forest Ecosystem Resources Inventorying, Monitoring and Management ................................................................................................................... 42 Fabian Islas Gutierrez Gerardo H. Terrazas Gonzalez Juan Islas Gutierrez Evaluacion de Diferentes Modelos Auxiliares en Inventarios de Recursos Naturales: Estimacion de Areas ....................................................................................................... 47 Francisco Moreno Sanchez Diego D. Reygadas Prado Determinacion de la Degradacion Inducida por el Hombre en el Estado de Tlaxcala ........ 54 Gerardo H. Terrazas Gonzalez David C. Bowden Kenneth Burnhamm Evaluation of Projection Methods to Predict Wetland Area Sizes ....................................... 58 Timothy J. McConnell Aerial Sketch Mapping Surveys the Past, Present and Future ........................................... 59 Eduardo Javier Trevino Garza Aplicacion de la Percepcion Remota en los Inventarios de Areas Subtropicales ............... 63 Ignacio Galindo Ramon Solano Real Time AVHRR Detection of Forest Fires and Smoke in Mexico Between January and June 1998 .................................................................................................. 68 This file was created by scanning the printed publication. Errors identified by the software have been corrected; however, some errors may remain. Mark E. Jensen Tim McGarvey Patrick Bourgeron James Andreasen Iris Goodman ECADS-A Multi-Resource Database and Analytical System for Ecosystem Classification and Mapping ............................................................................................. 76 Keith Reynolds Mark Jensen James Andreasen Iris Goodman Knowledge-Based Approach to Watershed-Scale TMDL Assessment ............................... 81 Charles T. Scott Scott D. Klopfer Standard Forest Sampling Designs and Their Analysis Using TabGen .............................. 87 Jose Navar Necesidades de Monitoreo para el.Manejo Forestal Sustentable de los Bosques de Coniferas del Norte de Mexico ................................................................... 90 Juana Ma. Castro Servin Estudio de los Suelos Forestales del Desierto de los Leones Distrito Federal ................... 98 Marisela C. Zamora Martinez Inventario y Monitoreo del Recurso Micologico en los Bosques T emplados .................... 103 Beatriz Silva Torres Francisco Moreno Sanchez Diego Reygadas Prado Area Natural Protegida Cerro de la Estrella Descripcion y Diagnostico ............................ 107 Francisco Becerra-Luna Inventarios Integrados y Monitoreo en Ecosistemas Forestales. Caso de Estudio: Ex-Lago de Texcoco ..................................................................................................... 111 Reynaldo Valenzuela RUlz Evaluacion Participativa como Parte Integral del Muestreo de los Recursos Naturales ... 118 Christopher D. Geron Forest Cover and Natural Volatile Organic Compound Emissions in North America ........ 126 Ben H.J. de Jong Some Methodological Approaches to Estimate and Monitor Carbon Mitigation in the Forestry Sector ................................................................................................... 130 Klaus Janz Reidar Persson Information for Forest Sector Policy ......................................................................... '" ...... 139 William T. Sexton Robert C. Szaro Implementing Ecosystem Management Concepts at Multiple Organizational Levels ....... 145 Carlos Mallen-Rivera Propuesta para la Proteccion, la Restauracion y el Manejo de la Region de Huayacocotla, Veracruz ............................................................................................... 157 Subject III The Evolving Complexity of Inventorying and Monitoring Forest Ecosystems W.E. Frayer Complexity of Sampling Multiple Resources ..................................................................... 163 Albert Abee Reducing Barriers to Assessing Sustainability in the U.S ................................................. 166 Carlos Rodriguez Franco Mexican Experiences in Forest Monitoring Research ....................................................... 172 Hans T. Schreuder Paul H. Geissler Plot Designs for Ecological Monitoring of Forest and Range ............................................ 180 Miguel Caballero Deloya EI Inventario Forestal de Mexico: Evolucion y Perspectivas ............................................. 186 James R. Gosz International Long-Term Ecological Research: a Role in Research, Inventorying and Monitoring Forest Ecosystem Resources ................................................................... 190 Thomas Owens USGS-NPS Vegetation Mapping Program ........................................................................ 199 Robin M. Reich Vanessa A. Bravo Integrating Spatial Statistics With GIS and Remote Sensing in Designing Multiresource Inventories .............................................................................................. 202 W.E. Frayer Inventories of U.S. Wetlands ............................................................................................. 208 Gretchen G. Moisen Thomas C. Edwards, Jr. Tracey S. Frescino Expanding Applications, Data, and Models in a Forest Inventory of Northern Utah, USA ...................................................................................................... 212 Agustin Gallegos Rodriguez Raymundo Villavicencio Garcia Efren Hernandez Alvarez Antonio Rodriguez Rivas Carlos Felix Becerra S. Carlos Alfonso Munoz Robles Permanent Control Sites for Monitoring Forest Resources in Protected Natural Areas in the State of Jalisco, Mexico ............................................................................ 219 Paul C. Van Deusen Industry Perspectives on Implementing and Analyzing an Annual Forest Inventory ......... 230 David E. Busch Ecological Monitoring for the Northwest Forest Plan: a Comparison to Other Major Ecosystem Initiatives .......................................................................................... 239 Judy Loo Canadian Perspectives on Biodiversity Inventory and Monitoring .................................... 245 Thomas J. Stohlgren Measuring And Monitoring Biodiversity in Nature Reserves, Forests, and Grasslands in the United States ................................................................................... 248 James A. Comiskey Francisco Dallmeier Alfonso Alonso Conservation and Development Approaches to Integrated Inventory and Monitoring for Adaptive Management ........................................................................... 256 Jose Concepcion Boyas Delgado Situacion Actual de la Biodiversidad de Mexico ................................................................ 261 Enrique Jurado Gerardo Cuellar Mercedes Flores Ignacio Gonzalez Biodiversity of Tamaulipan Thornscrub in Relation to Fragmentation ............................... 272 Gilberto Chavez-Leon Deborah M. Finch Rapid Assessment of Endemic Bird Areas in Michoacan, Mexico .................................... 276 J. Jimenez O. Aguirre H. Kramer Horizontal and Vertical Stand Structure Analysis of Uneven-Aged Pine-Juniper-Oak Mixed Forest ecosystem in Northeastern Mexico ............................ 281 Hague H. Vaughan Building the Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network: the Canadian Experience ................................................................................................... 282 Jerry F. Franklin Mark E. Harmon Frederick J. Swanson Complementary Roles of Research and Monitoring: Lessons From the U.S. LTER Program and Tierra Del Fuego ................................................................... 284 James M. Vose Jose Manuel Maass A Comparative Analysis of Hydrologic Responses of Tropical Deciduous and Temperate Deciduous Watershed Ecosystems to Climatic Change ..................... 292 Alejandro Velazquez-Martinez Ana Rita Roman-Jimenez Investigaciones a Largo Plazo en Productividad Forestal de Rodales Naturales de Pinus Patula en Mexico: Long-term Forest Productivity Studies in Natural Stands of Pinus Patula in Mexico .................................................... 299 Karen L. Oakley Edward M. Debevec Eric A. Rexstad Development of a Long-Term Ecological Monitoring Program in Denali National Park and Preserve, Alaska (USA) .................................................................. 307 Charles T. Scott Lucy E. Tyrrell Marie-Louise Smith David T. Funk A Monitoring System for Research Natural Areas in the Northeastern and Midwestern United States ............................................................................................. 315 Donald S. McLennan Biogeoclimatic Ecosystem Classification-a Natural System for Ecosystem-Based Land Management ........................................................................................................ 319 Subject IV New Approaches to Integrated Inventory and Monitoring of Forest Ecosystem Resources Michael A. Huston Forest Productivity and Diversity: Using Ecological Theory and Landscape Models to Guide Sustainable Forest Management ...................................................... 329 Raymond L. Czaplewski Integration of Strategic Inventory and Monitoring Programs for the Forest Lands, Wood Lands, Range Lands and Agricultural Lands of the United States ..................... 342 Andrew J. R. Gillespie A Strategic Plan for Forest Inventory and Monitoring in the United States ....................... 349 K. Bruce Jones Timothy G. Wade James D. Wickham Kurt H. Riitters Curtis M. Edmonds Characterizing Forest Fragmentation and Vulnerability Based on Patch Characteristics .................................................................................................... 359 John Lawrence Ecological Quality Assurance Principles ........................................................................... 367 Sten Folving Pam Kennedy Niall McCormick Towards Harmonization for Monitoring Key Forest Variables in Europe Using Earth Observation Data ................................................................................................ 371 Mark E. Jensen Roland L. Redmond Melissa M. Hart Iris A. Goodman Terrence M. Sobecki Assessment of Rangeland Health and Resource Condition Through Ecological Classification and Predictive Vegetation Modeling ....................................................... 381 Carlos Merenson Celina L. Montenegro Primer Inventario Nacional de Bosques Nativos ............................................................... 391 J. Peter Hall Criteria and Indicators of Sustainable Forest Management: the Canadian Initiative ......... 394 Ravi Prabhu The CIFOR Criteria and Indicators Research Program ..................................................... 399 Gil Vera-Castillo Jesus Dorantes-L6pez Liliana Gutierrez-Carbajal Aplicaci6n de Criterios e Indicadores en Ecosistemas de Clima T emplado en Mexico .................................................................................................... 410 Oscar A. Aguirre Calder6n Javier Jimenez Perez Evaluacion y Analisis de la Estructura de Ecosistemas Forestales .................................. 416 William A. Bechtold Stanley J. Zarnoch Field Methods And Data Processing Techniques Associated With Mapped Inventory Plots .............................................................................................................. 421 Eric Landis Craig Palmer Global Strategy for Forest Information Exchange ............................................................. 425 William K. Michener Information Management Challenges to Integrated Inventory and Monitoring of Forest Ecosystem Resources ................................................................................... 432 James W. Brunt The LTER Network Information System: a Framework for Ecological Information Management ................................................................................................................. 435 William K. Michener The Role of Data and Metadata Archives in Environmental Monitoring and Research Programs ...................................................................................................... 441 Donald L. Henshaw Gody Spycher Evolution of Ecological Metadata Structures at the H. J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) Site ................................................... 445 Octavio S. Magana Torres Situaci6n Actual de los Sistemas para el Manejo de Informaci6n de Inventario y Monitoreo Forestales en Mexico ................................................................................... 450 Eda C. Melendez-Colom The Development of a Data Management System in the Luquillo Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research (LUQ LTER) Site ........................................... 452 Adam Fenech Examples of Innovative Information Management for Reporting Forest Data and Information ............................................................................................................. 460 Audrey Mac Leod Harvey Berenberg Brian Cordova Susan Hua Matthew Kinkenon Chuck Liff Forest Health Monitoring Information Management System ............................................. 473 Harry Hirvonen Forest Health Assessment: Science to Policy Link-an Interesting Challenge ................. 476 Russell T. Graham Theresa B. Jain An Effective and Efficient Assessment Process ................................................................ 481 Juan Manuel Torres Rojo Problemas Practicos Que Reducen la Eficiencia de los Sistemas de Apoyo a la Toma de Decisiones Para el Manejo Forestal .............................................................. 487 Subject V Challenges to Achieving Integration H. Gyde Lund Seeing the Trees, Forests, and the Earth ......................................................................... 493 Hugo Manzanilla Retos Para Lograr el Manejo Integrado y Sustenable de los Ecosistemas Forestales ..... 499 Douglas S. Powell Challenges and Opportunities for Integrating Inventory and Monitoring Into the Work of a Land Management Agency ............................................................................... 505 Hague Vaughan Tom Brydges Some Insights Based on the Canadian Experience .......................................................... 511 Robert B. Waide Integrating Ecological Data Over Space and Time: Challenges for the Future ................. 512 Carlos Mallen-Rivera Edmundo Garda-Moya Hacia una Valoraci6n Total e Integral de los Recursos Forestales ................................... 513 Subject VI Conclusions and Recommendations Celedonio Aguirre-Bravo Symposium Conclusions and Recommendations ............................................................. 521