Environmental statistics is the application of statistical methods

Statistics

Statistics is the study of the collection, organization, analysis, and interpretation of data. It deals with all aspects of this, including the planning of data collection in terms of the design of surveys and experiments....

 to environmental science

Environmental science

Environmental science is an interdisciplinary academic field that integrates physical and biological sciences, to the study of the environment, and the solution of environmental problems...

. It covers procedures for dealing with questions concerning both the natural environment in its undistrurbed state and the interaction of humanity with the environment. Thus weather, climate, air and water quality are included, as are studies of plant and animal populations.

Environmental statistics covers a number of types of study:

• Baseline studies to document the present state of an environment to provide background in case of unknown changes in the future;
• Targeted studies to describe the likely impact of changes being planned or of accidental occurrences;
• Regular monitoring to attempt to detect changes in the environment.

External resources

• International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics (IJEES)