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保护目标的进展至关重要，但是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。该项目将通过采样生态系统模型来评估指标设计、数据偏差和环境变异性如何影响绩效，从而测试监测地方到全球尺度生物多样性变化的指标。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是翔实的、具有成本效益的和可靠的。预计这将对预测和衡量诸如《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.