Power, precaution, Type II error and sampling design in assessment of environmental impacts

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Strengthening statistical usage in marine ecology (2012, background): “…‘giants’ in the field of quantitative marine ecology, who have stressed the importance of constructing studies with the paramount objective of statistical robustness (e.g. Green, 1979,1989; Hurlbert, 1984; Peterson et al., 2001; Stewart-Oaten, 1995; Underwood, 1997; Underwood and Chapman, 2003).”
The Rauischholzhausen Agenda for Road Ecology (2007, background): “The study type with the highest inferential strength for assessing human impacts on the environment is the before-after-control-impact (BACI) design (Green 1979, Underwood and Chapman 2003).”
Cost-efficient sampling of fish assemblages: comparison of baited video stations and diver video transects (2010, methodology): “To maximise the power of a monitoring program to detect change over time, a sampling methodology that max- imises the mean and minimises variance due to sampling error should be chosen (Underwood & Chapman 2003).”
Effects of metals on aquatic assemblages: what do we really know? (2010, background): “When samples are larger, parameters are estimated more precisely and it is more straightforward to detect differences between the disturbed and control treatments or areas (Underwood and Chapman, 2003).”