Effective Ecological Monitoring
1st Edition
Published on 1. May 2018
224 pages
978-1-4863-0893-4 (ISBN)
Description
Long-term monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the natural environment and managing major environmental problems. Yet they are often done very poorly and ineffectively. This second edition of the highly acclaimed Effective Ecological Monitoring describes what makes monitoring programs successful and how to ensure that long-term monitoring studies persist.The book has been fully revised and updated but remains concise, illustrating key aspects of effective monitoring with case studies and examples. It includes new sections comparing surveillance-based and question-based monitoring, analysing environmental observation networks, and provides examples of adaptive monitoring.Based on the authors' 80 years of collective experience in running long-term research and monitoring programs, Effective Ecological Monitoring is a valuable resource for the natural resource management, ecological and environmental science and policy communities.
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David Lindenmayer | Gene Likens
Effective Ecological Monitoring
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Content
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface to Second Edition
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Some of the ecological values and uses of long-term datasets
- Time until expression
- Informing policies and legislation in environmental management
- Use in simulation modelling
- Tests of ecological theory
- Development of co-located, collaborative and multidisciplinary work
- Detection of surprises
- Poor record of long-term ecological monitoring
- Why we wrote this book
- 1. Societal need
- 2. Correcting the record - countering the perception that long-term studies in ecology are poor quality science
- 3. Making sense of the vast monitoring literature
- 4. Providing an overview of success and failure
- 5. New perspectives
- References
- Chapter 2 Why monitoring fails
- Characteristics of ineffective monitoring programs
- Failure to ask the preliminary and fundamental question - Is monitoring needed at all?
- Passive, mindless and lacking questions
- Lack of trigger points for action
- Poor experimental design
- Snowed by a blizzard of ecological details
- Squabbles about what to monitor - 'It's not monitoring without the mayflies'
- Assumption that 'one size fits all'
- Big machines that go ' bing'
- Disengagement
- Rush to get 'real work' happening on the ground and accusations of program over- engineering
- Poor data management
- Breaches of data integrity
- Other factors contributing to ineffective monitoring programs
- Lack of funding - grant myopia
- The loss of a champion
- Out of nowhere
- Excessive bureaucracy
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 3 What makes long-term monitoring effective?
- Characteristics of effective monitoring programs
- Good questions and evolving questions
- The use of a conceptual model
- Selection of appropriate entities to measure
- Good design
- Well- developed partnerships
- Strong and dedicated leadership
- Potential to identify key emerging issues
- Ongoing funding
- Frequent use of data
- Scientific productivity
- Maintenance of data integrity and calibration of field techniques
- Little things matter a lot! Some ' tricks of the trade'
- Field transport
- Field staff
- Access to field sites
- Time in the field
- The adaptive monitoring framework
- Examples of the adaptive monitoring framework
- Adaptive monitoring is a general and not a prescriptive framework
- Increased future role for adaptive monitoring
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 4 The problematic, the effective and the ugly - some case studies
- The problematic
- PPBio Australasia
- The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Program (ABMP)
- EMAP
- The effective
- Rothamsted
- Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program (EHMP) for Moreton Bay in South East Queensland, Australia
- The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
- The Central Highlands of Victoria, south- eastern Australia
- Need to wait and see
- NEON/ TERN
- The ugly
- Summary
- References
- Chapter 5 The upshot - our general conclusions
- Changes in culture needed to facilitate monitoring
- The academic culture and rewards systems
- Structure of organisations
- Funding
- Societal culture
- Good things that can come from non- question based monitoring
- The role of citizen science in long-term monitoring
- The challenge of intellectual property and data sharing
- The challenges in effective monitoring of rare, threatened and endangered species
- The major challenge of keeping monitoring and long-term studies going
- The big issue of integrating different kinds of monitoring
- Approaches to integrate data from different kinds of monitoring
- The challenges posed by differences in the kinds of entities that are monitored in different ecosystems
- Using environmental and economic accounts as a way to demonstrate the value of monitoring and cement support for monitoring in place
- Concluding remarks
- References
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
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