Until approximately 2010, additional measurements, focused primarily on forest health, were collected on 1/16 of all plots to allow broad-scale assessment of covered variables.
However, as no broad-scale assessment of rainforest boundary change had been undertaken, the rate and even direction of boundary change remained uncertain.
"This really opens the door to do a broad-scale assessment of an animal's health without having to get a blood sample," says Hunt, who pioneered the analysis of whale blow and poop for hormones that indicate sex, maturity, reproductive state, and stress level.
The quantitative regionalization approach we present offers a broad-scale assessment of British Columbia's ecosystem diversity that can be used as a supplement to traditional in situ biodiversity assessments to provide detail in under-sampled regions of BC or areas experiencing landscape change.
Imaging has an emerging role to play in the prediction of tumour response, both by the assessment of specific therapy targets and the broad-scale assessment of the treatment-resistant phenotype.
Maximising biodiversity conservation while minimising cost and resources might be achieved by a combination of broad-scale assessments for relatively homogeneous and untransformed areas and fine-scale ones for heterogeneous and fragmented areas.
Here, we review recent broad-scale assessments of tree disease risk, investigations of site and host preferences for several root rot pathogens, and regional historical analyses of pathogen outbreak in plantations.
Estimates are based on broad-scale assessments of exposure to risk, rather than systematic evidence about the sensitivity of human movements to particular environmental changes.
Drawing on, as a case-study, a broad-scale biodiversity assessment for NSW, Australia, this paper reports on the successful application of the BFT tool for a variety of functions ranging from interactive scenario evaluation through to conservation benefits mapping.
Hence, broad-scale area assessments provide frameworks within which finer-scaled options for conservation setting and resource allocation have to be established and analyzed [14].
"Either broad scale or carefully targeted".
