This awareness comes from a thorough understanding of ecological theories that describe the ecosystem of interest to the designer.
As time and resources allow, additional features can be addressed incrementally to provide a more complex representation of an area or ecosystem of interest.
These approaches should not only include monitoring of changes in the occurrence of a particular substance but also be able to monitor changes (improvements) in the health of the ecosystem of interest.
However, this is of course highly dependent on number of plant species in the samples, which may be dependent on sample origin, foraging behaviour and the biodiversity of the ecosystem of interest, but may serve nonetheless as a guideline for higher multiplex rates.
The workshop summarized the state of understanding, key uncertainties and next research steps on the shifting chemistry of the oceans and the impacts on species and ecosystems, with a focus on ecosystems of particular interest to humans.
Similarly, it is particularly important to develop a suite of indicators that reliably tracks ecosystem attributes of interest in order to achieve confidence in the status of an ecosystem relative to utility thresholds [18], [31] [34].
The results of these calculations are then translated to a set of indicators for the ecosystem services of interest.
Some studies have focused on how soil resource levels influence the diversity effect, however, these studies have examined plant species richness or functional group richness and have focused on plant productivity as the ecosystem function of interest, not microbial processes [28], [29], [51], [52], [53], [54].
However, the steady state of ecosystems is often of interest.
Because they often use birds as a proxy for the health of the ecosystem, the areas of interest are referred to as Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas (IBAs).
