Improving biodiversity monitoring
Improving biodiversity monitoring
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1442-9993.2011.02314.x
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发表时间：
2012-05-01
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1.5
通讯作者：
Zerger, Andre
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作者：
Lindenmayer, David B.;Gibbons, Philip;Zerger, Andre
有效的生物多样性监测对于评估、学习并最终改进保护实践至关重要。对生物多样性的良好构想、设计和实施的监测应：㈠提供关于生物多样性主要方面趋势的信息（ii）对可能难以扭转或代价高昂的问题提供早期预警;（iii）提供保护成功的量化证据（iv）强调提高管理效率的方法;（v）提供关于养护投资回报的信息。有效监测生物多样性的重要性得到广泛承认（例如澳大利亚生物多样性战略）。然而，尽管每个人都认为生物多样性监测是一个好主意，但这并没有转化为一种健全的生物多样性监测文化，也没有广泛使用监测数据。我们确定了四个障碍，更有效地监测在澳大利亚的生物多样性。这些是：（i）许多养护方案的目标表述不清或模糊不清，难以衡量进展情况，造成设计和执行问题;（ii）长期和持续的生物多样性监测工作往往表述不清;（iii）生物多样性监测工作往往缺乏适当的机构支持、协调和有针对性的资金;以及（iv）往往缺乏适当的标准来指导监测活动和提供这些方案的数据。为了解决这些问题，我们建议决策者、资源管理者和科学家更好、更明确地阐明生物多样性监测的目标，并更好地说明加大对生物多样性监测投资的理由。澳大利亚迫切需要加强对生物多样性监测的机构支持，改进监测标准，改进监测数据的存档和获取。我们建议，在监测方面进行更具战略性的财政、机构和智力投资，将导致更有效地利用可用于生物多样性保护的资源，并最终取得更好的保护成果。
Effective biodiversity monitoring is critical to evaluate, learn from, and ultimately improve conservation practice. Well conceived, designed and implemented monitoring of biodiversity should: (i) deliver information on trends in key aspects of biodiversity (e.g. population changes); (ii) provide early warning of problems that might otherwise be difficult or expensive to reverse; (iii) generate quantifiable evidence of conservation successes (e.g. species recovery following management) and conservation failures; (iv) highlight ways to make management more effective; and (v) provide information on return on conservation investment. The importance of effective biodiversity monitoring is widely recognized (e.g. Australian Biodiversity Strategy). Yet, while everyone thinks biodiversity monitoring is a good idea, this has not translated into a culture of sound biodiversity monitoring, or widespread use of monitoring data. We identify four barriers to more effective biodiversity monitoring in Australia. These are: (i) many conservation programmes have poorly articulated or vague objectives against which it is difficult to measure progress contributing to design and implementation problems; (ii) the case for long-term and sustained biodiversity monitoring is often poorly developed and/or articulated; (iii) there is often a lack of appropriate institutional support, co-ordination, and targeted funding for biodiversity monitoring; and (iv) there is often a lack of appropriate standards to guide monitoring activities and make data available from these programmes. To deal with these issues, we suggest that policy makers, resource managers and scientists better and more explicitly articulate the objectives of biodiversity monitoring and better demonstrate the case for greater investments in biodiversitymonitoring. There is an urgent need for improved institutional support for biodiversity monitoring in Australia, for improved monitoring standards, and for improved archiving of, and access to, monitoring data. We suggest that more strategic financial, institutional and intellectual investments in monitoring will lead to more efficient use of the resources available for biodiversity conservation and ultimately better conservation outcomes.