Biodiversity indicators for better conservation decisions

该项目旨在测试、设计和选择支持保护的生物多样性指标。可靠和敏感的生物多样性指标对于跟踪实现保护目标的进展至关重要，但大多数生物多样性指标揭示决策者所需趋势的能力尚未得到检验。该项目将测试在地方到全球范围内监测生物多样性变化的指标，对生态系统模型进行抽样，以评估指标设计、数据偏差和环境变异性如何影响绩效。预计项目成果将确保为监测和评估澳大利亚环境状况而收集的数据内容丰富、成本效益高和稳健。预计这将对预测和衡量《生物多样性公约》等政策的效果产生影响。

This project aims to test, design and select biodiversity indicators to support conservation. Reliable and sensitive biodiversity indicators are critical to track progress towards conservation targets, but the ability of most biodiversity indicators to reveal trends needed by decision-makers is untested. This project will test indicators to monitor biodiversity change at local to global scales, by sampling ecosystem models to evaluate how indicator design, data bias and environmental variability affect performance. Project outcomes are expected to ensure that that data collected to monitor and assess the state of Australia’s environment are informative, cost-effective and robust. This is expected to have implications for predicting and measuring effects of policy such as the Convention on Biological Diversity.