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Monitoring for conservation
Abstract
Human-mediated environmental changes have resulted in appropriate concern for the conservation of ecological systems and have led to the development of many ecological monitoring programs worldwide. Many programs that are identified with the purpose of 'surveillance' represent an inefficient use of conservation funds and effort. Here, we revisit the 1964 paper by Platt and argue that his recommendations about the conduct of science are equally relevant to the conduct of ecological monitoring programs. In particular, we argue that monitoring should not be viewed as a stand-alone activity, but instead as a component of a larger process of either conservation-oriented science or management. Corresponding changes in monitoring focus and design would lead to substantial increases in the efficiency and usefulness of monitoring results in conservation.
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“Allowing the monitoring design and focus to be determined by an appropriate problem framing of the restoration effort will ensure the maximum utility of the resulting information (Nichols and Williams 2006).”
From Adaptive Management in Practice and the Problem of Application at Multiple Scales—Insights from Oyster Reef Restoration on Florida’s Gulf Coast (2022) · cites this paper as Nichols and Williams 2006
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- NICHOLS, J., & WILLIAMS, B.
- Venue
- Trends in Ecology & Evolution
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2006-12
- Volume
- 21
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 668-673
- ISSN
- 0169-5347
- Cited by
- 1,104
- References
- 2
- Language
- en
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