Combining and aggregating environmental data for status and trend assessments: challenges and approaches
Combining and aggregating environmental data for status and trend assessments: challenges and approaches
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DOI：
10.1007/s10661-015-4504-8
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发表时间：
2015-04
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3
通讯作者：
Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner;M. Harte;Nancy Molina;R. Hughes;C. Schreck;J. Yeakley
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作者：
Kathleen G. Maas-Hebner;M. Harte;Nancy Molina;R. Hughes;C. Schreck;J. Yeakley
自然资源管理机构和非政府组织正越来越多地跨越地理和司法管辖区共享监测数据。这样做可以提高它们评价地方、区域和景观一级的环境条件，特别是现状和趋势的能力，并提高它们作出短期和长期管理决定的能力。状态监测评估一个地区的人口现状或环境状况。监测趋势的目的是监测人口或环境状况随时间的变化。我们写这篇文章是为了告诉机构和非政府组织的管理者、分析师和顾问，哪些环境数据可以与合适的技术相结合，并在统计上进行汇总，以进行新的评估。通过这样做，他们可以增加(1)可用数据的使用和(2)评估的有效性和可靠性。提高对地方和区域一级分析合并和汇总数据所固有的困难的认识，可以增加修改和/或计划今后监测工作以适应多种来源数据的可能性。
Increasingly, natural resource management agencies and nongovernmental organizations are sharing monitoring data across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Doing so improves their abilities to assess local-, regional-, and landscape-level environmental conditions, particularly status and trends, and to improve their ability to make short- and long-term management decisions. Status monitoring assesses the current condition of a population or environmental condition across an area. Monitoring for trends aims at monitoring changes in populations or environmental condition through time. We wrote this paper to inform agency and nongovernmental organization managers, analysts, and consultants regarding the kinds of environmental data that can be combined with suitable techniques and statistically aggregated for new assessments. By doing so, they can increase the (1) use of available data and (2) the validity and reliability of the assessments. Increased awareness of the difficulties inherent in combining and aggregating data for local- and regional-level analyses can increase the likelihood that future monitoring efforts will be modified and/or planned to accommodate data from multiple sources.