Indicators of Ecological Health

• Decreasing signs of degradation
• Decreasing dependence on external inputs
• Increasing soil quality
• Increasing water quality
• Increasing nutrient cycling
• Increasing compositional biodiversity
• Increasing faunal complexity
• Increasing floral health
• Increasing genetic biodiversity
• Increasing functional biodiversity
• Increasing resilience to perturbations
• Increasing awareness of how choices made now are connected to the past and the future