EIMP : Ecological integrity monitoring program

The EIMP has become invaluable to the park management teams as it is the main tool used for verifying changes in the ecological integrity of the regions under their care. [...] We would also like to underscore the hard work of all the people who helped in creating the EIMP, as much the employees of the Sépaq as our partners, researchers, and specialists, whose contributions considerably improved the quality of the program. [...] The results of these physical and biological investigations have allowed us to produce an outline of the changes in ecological integrity in the National Parks of Quebec. [...] The EIMP found inspiration in this within the Ecological Monitoring Framework from the National Park Service (NPS) of the United States, who modeled different ecosystems within the American national parks by establishing the nature of the interactions between the species, the physical environments and the stress factors that were present. [...] The symbols in question can apply to an individual indicator, to a parameter (in this case, the symbol represents the total sum of the ratings for the individual indicators that measure a parameter), and to the entire parks (the symbol represents the total sum of all indicators reported upon in a park).