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Today, efforts are being made to rehabilitate badly degraded ecosystems and protect areas which have important ecological value, such as national parks, critical fish and wildlife habitats, natural communities and endangered species.
The Notion of Natural and Cultural Integrity, Considerations of Scale and Hierarchy, Applying Notions of Ecological Integrity, Choosing Indicators of Ecosystem Integrity: Wetlands as a Model System, APPLYING THE CONCEPTS Measuring Biological Integrity: Lessons from Streams, Monitoring for Ecosystem Integrity, National and Regional Scale Measures of Canada's Ecosystem Health, National Environmental Monitoring: A Case Study of the Atlantic Maritime Region, Monitoring and Measuring Ecosystem Integrity in Canadian National Parks, An Approach to the Development of Biological Sediment Guidelines, On the Nature of Ecological Integrity: Some Closing Comments.