A checklist of attributes for effective monitoring of threatened species and threatened ecosystems

Monitoring of threatened species and threatened ecosystems is critical for determining population trends, identifying urgency of management responses, and assessing the efficacy of management interventions. Yet many threatened species and threatened ecosystems are not monitored and for those that ar...

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Vydáno v:Journal of environmental management Ročník 262; s. 110312
Hlavní autoři: Lindenmayer, David, Woinarski, John, Legge, Sarah, Southwell, Darren, Lavery, Tyrone, Robinson, Natasha, Scheele, Ben, Wintle, Brendan
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: England Elsevier Ltd 15.05.2020
Témata:
Animals
Australia
Biodiversity
Biodiversity conservation
Checklist
Conservation of Natural Resources
data collection
Ecosystem
ecosystems
Endangered Species
funding
governance
information management
monitoring
Monitoring design and implementation
protocols
Threatened ecosystems
threatened species
Threatening processes
Australia
Threatened ecosystems
Threatening processes
Biodiversity conservation
Monitoring design and implementation
Endangered species
Australia
ISSN:0301-4797, 1095-8630, 1095-8630
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Shrnutí:Monitoring of threatened species and threatened ecosystems is critical for determining population trends, identifying urgency of management responses, and assessing the efficacy of management interventions. Yet many threatened species and threatened ecosystems are not monitored and for those that are, the quality of the monitoring is often poor. Here we provide a checklist of factors that need to be considered for inclusion in robust monitoring programs for threatened species and threatened ecosystems. These factors can be grouped under four broad themes – the design of monitoring programs, the structure and governance of monitoring programs, data management and reporting, and appropriate funding and legislative support. We briefly discuss key attributes of our checklist under these themes. Key topics in our first theme of the design of monitoring programs include appropriate objective setting, identification of the most appropriate entities to be measured, consistency in methodology and protocols through time, ensuring monitoring is long-term, and embedding monitoring into management. Under our second theme which focuses on the structure and governance of monitoring programs for threatened species and ecosystems, we touch on the importance of adopting monitoring programs that: test the effectiveness of management interventions, produce results that are relevant to management, and engage with (and are accepted by) the community. Under Theme 3, we discuss why data management is critical and highlight that the costs of data curation, analysis and reporting need to be factored into budgets for monitoring programs. This requires that appropriate levels of funding are made available for monitoring programs, beyond just the cost of data collection – a key topic examined in Theme 4. We provide examples, often from Australia, to highlight the importance of each of the four themes. We recognize that these themes and topics in our checklist are often closely inter-related and therefore provide a conceptual model highlighting these linkages. We suggest that our checklist can help identify the parts of existing monitoring programs for threatened species and threatened ecosystems that are adequate for the purpose or may be deficient and need to be improved. •Monitoring of threatened species and ecosystems is critical for many reasons.•Many threatened species and ecosystems are not monitored or are poorly monitored.•We provide a checklist of factors to guide robust threatened species monitoring.•We group these factors under four broad themes including design and implementation.•The themes are inter-related and we develop a conceptual model highlighting linkages.
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ISSN:0301-4797
1095-8630
1095-8630
DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2020.110312