(Ebook) Effective ecological monitoring 2nd Edition by David Lindenmayer, Gene Likens ISBN 978-1486308927 1486308929

(Ebook) Effective ecological monitoring 2nd Edition by David Lindenmayer, Gene Likens ISBN 978-1486308927 1486308929

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ISBN 10:  1486308929

ISBN 13: 978-1486308927

Author: David Lindenmayer, Gene E. Likens

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, analyzing 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.

Table of contents: 

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'

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

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