Practical, powerful and cost effective indicators of sustainable forest management for the conservation of biological diversity

关于澳大利亚森林的适当利用的许多辩论，都是由于对依赖森林的物种的丰度和分布的影响程度的不确定性，而这是蒙特利尔进程下可持续管理的一个关键指标。现在有机会开发新的工具，大大提高我们发现和评估变化的能力。该项目将制定最佳监测设计和分析战略，以便在自然波动和观测误差的背景下发现人口趋势。这将产生区域和国家两级协调一致的指标报告模板。它将利用调查中的观察误差，统计控制过程，模拟方法和功率分析的进展，开发一个世界级的物种监测系统的最新发现。

Much debate about appropriate use of Australia's forests stems from uncertainty about the magnitude of impacts on abundances and distributions of forest-dependent species, a key indicator of sustainable management under the Montreal Process. An opportunity exists to develop new tools to substantially improve our ability to detect and assess change. This project will develop optimal monitoring design and analysis strategies for detecting population trends against a background of natural fluctuation and observation error. It will result in templates for coherent reporting on indicators at regional and national levels. It will exploit recent findings regarding observation error in surveys, advances in statistical control processes, simulation methods, and power analysis to develop a world-class species monitoring system.