Making ecological monitoring successful: Insights and lessons from the Long Term Ecological Research Network
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Title: | Making ecological monitoring successful: Insights and lessons from the Long Term Ecological Research Network |
Author(s): | Burns, Emma![]() Tennant, Philip Dickman, Chris Green, Peter Hanigan, Ivan Hoffmann, Ary ![]() Keith, David Metcalfe, Dan Nolan, Kathryn Russell-Smith, Jeremy Wardle, Glenda Welsh, Alan Williams, Richard Yates, Cameron Lindenmayer, David B ![]() |
Keywords: | Biodiversity conservation -- Australia Environmental monitoring -- Australia Environmental management -- Australia |
Publisher: | Canberra, ACT: Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTERN), Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University |
Citation: | Burns E, Lindenmayer D, Tennant P, Dickman C, Green P, Hanigan I, Hoffmann A, Keith D, Metcalfe D, Nolan K, Russell-Smith J, Wardle G, Welsh A, Williams R, Yates C (2014). Making ecological monitoring successful: Insights and lessons from the Long Term Ecological Research Network, LTERN, Australia. |
Description: | Ecological monitoring allows us to track changes in the environment and helps us see how our actions affect the environment. Long-term monitoring is particularly important, yielding valuable insights that are not possible from shorter-term investigations.
We consider successful ecological monitoring to be monitoring that generates knowledge that is useful to others, and can be valuable in adaptive and effective environmental management. Any effective monitoring program requires a number of fundamental considerations, and additional factors should be considered in the design of a long-term monitoring program.
This booklet describes what we consider to be the key characteristics of successful ecological monitoring, including long-term monitoring.All these characteristics work together. For example, good project design
cannot meet its objectives without long-term funding; data management
must be matched by good communication; and good partnerships must
be maintained through succession and project planning.
In discussing these characteristics and our recommendations for how
they may be achieved, we present a series of stories and quotes.
These insights are based on the collective experience of research
leaders of the 12 plot networks within the Long Term Ecological
Research Network, along with other professionals associated with the
network.
These stories highlight just how difficult it is to do long-term ecological
research in Australia. They also illustrate the unique value of this kind of
research for helping to understand and manage the Australian environment.
We hope that this booklet will support the development of more effective and
influential long-term ecological projects in Australia. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/130886 |
ISBN: | 978-0-9925176-3-2 |
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