SBIR Phase II: Assessing Status and Trends of Threatened Species from Uncertain Monitoring Data: Methodology and Software

SBIR 第二阶段：根据不确定的监测数据评估受威胁物种的现状和趋势：方法和软件

• 批准号: 0514541
• 负责人: H Akcakaya
• 金额: $ 49.98万
• 依托单位: Applied Biomathematics Inc
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2005
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2005-09-01 至 2007-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0514541&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SBIR; Phase; II; Assessing; Status

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project aims to develop and implement as software methods for entering, processing, and analyzing species distribution monitoring data, which is one of the most basic forms of biological information that comes from surveys, censuses, and other routine assessments. These methods will use basic monitoring data to (1) assess the status and trends of the monitored species at the population-level, and (2) estimate the input parameters for the more advanced quantitative models, thereby increasing the use of these models, which include population viability analysis models, habitat models and other GIS-based methods, and quantitative risk criteria, such those used by the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the NatureServe. One of the major innovations of the proposed software will be its treatment of uncertainty. Ecological data are often scarce and uncertain, including spatial and temporal variation, measurement and sampling errors, and demographic variance. The methods to be implemented in the proposed software will account for this uncertainty and incorporate it into the assessment of status and other outputs produced.Broader impacts of the project will include standardization of the monitoring process for a broad spectrum of species, significantly reducing the cost of processing and analyzing monitoring data and increasing the use of advanced quantitative models in relation to environmental issues. This will, in turn, increase the use of scientific information in environmental decision-making and policy formulation. The methods developed in this project will also allow incorporating data uncertainties in an objective, transparent, and credible way, thereby providing scientifically credible and sound summary of the status and trends of the species monitored. The proposed methods will be implemented as software. Expected commercial applications include software sales and contracts for specific applications of the software.

该小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第二阶段项目旨在开发和实施用于输入，处理和分析物种分布监测数据的软件方法，这些数据是来自调查，普查和其他常规评估的最基本形式的生物信息之一。这些方法将使用基本监测数据，以便（1）评估受监测物种在种群一级的状况和趋势，（2）估计更先进的定量模型的输入参数，从而增加这些模型的使用，其中包括种群生存力分析模型、生境模型和其他基于地理信息系统的方法，以及定量风险标准，例如世界自然保护联盟（IUCN）和自然服务组织（NatureServe）使用的那些。拟议的软件的主要创新之一将是其不确定性的处理。生态数据往往是稀缺和不确定的，包括空间和时间变化，测量和抽样误差，以及人口变化。拟在拟议软件中采用的方法将考虑到这种不确定性，并将其纳入对现状和其他产出的评估中，该项目的更广泛影响将包括对范围广泛的物种的监测过程进行标准化，大大降低处理和分析监测数据的成本，并增加使用与环境问题有关的先进定量模型。这反过来又将增加在环境决策和政策制定中对科学信息的利用。该项目开发的方法还将允许以客观、透明和可信的方式纳入数据的不确定性，从而提供对所监测物种的状况和趋势的科学可信和合理的总结。所提出的方法将作为软件实施。预期的商业应用包括软件销售和软件具体应用合同。