Fig 1.
Network of the Quebec national parks included in the ecological monitoring program and parks selected for this study: (A) Jacques-Cartier, (B) Bic, and (C) Frontenac.
Fig 2.
Schematization of the analysis grid for the ecological validation of indicators.
Table 1.
Sampling characteristics of the Frontenac National Park indicators selected for statistic validation.
Fig 3.
Detailed analysis grid of the ecological validation of indicators for the freshwater ecosystem of Frontenac National Park.
Table 2.
Statistical power (%) for the Frontenac National Park indicators over two monitoring period (10 and 20 years), for two change rates to detect (2% and 5%) and two levels of significance (0,10 and 0,20).
Table 3.
Distribution of indicators measured at the Frontenac National Park according to their statistical power calculated for different monitoring periods, change rates to detect, and levels of significance.
Fig 4.
Summary analysis grid of the BIOPSIE for the Frontenac National Park.
Fig 5.
Summary analysis grid of the BIOPSIE for the Jacques-Cartier national park.
Fig 6.
Summary analysis grid of the BIOPSIE for the Bic National Park.