""Front Matter""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgment of Reviewers""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 The Empirical and Conceptual Foundations of Indicators""; ""3 A Framework for Indicator Selection""; ""4 Indicators for National Ecological Assessments""; ""5 Local and Regional Indicators""; ""References""; ""Appendix A Variability, Complexity, and the Design of Sampling Procedures""; ""Appendix B Markov Matrices of Landscape Change""; ""Appendix C Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff""; ""Index""