ABSTRACT
In an agroecosystem health and sustainability assessment, indicators should be analyzed in two ways: (1) as measures of overall health at a point in time and (2) as predictors of its long-term sustainability (Costanza et al., 1998) and health. Assessing the health status of an agroecosystem involves comparing and contrasting a series of indicator measurements against a set of cutoff and threshold values (Canadian Council of Ministers of the Environment, 1996) based on the goals and objectives of the agroecosystem.
