Criteria for Selection of Indicators

This framework represents a group eonsensus of the best way to transform, expand, and develop new and existing monitoring programs into an integrated assessment framework. The previous ehapters in this book identified and diseussed many attributes of a sueoessfid indieator (Chapters 2, 3, 4, and 5). The following attributes were identified  

Relevance to publie or eoologieal health Sensitivity to ehanges in mereuiy loading Availability of historieal data Part of an existing data eolleetion infrastrueture 

Ecosystem Responses to Mercury Contamination Indicators of Change 

For biological indicator species, several additional criteria are pertinent. The chosen indicators should  

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