Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Lindenmayer, David B.
• Likens, Gene E.

Titel

Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring

Ist Teil von

• Trends in ecology & evolution (Amsterdam), 2009-09, Vol.24 (9), p.482-486

Ort / Verlag

Kidlington: Elsevier Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Quelle

Access via ScienceDirect (Elsevier)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Long-term research and monitoring can provide important ecological insights and are crucial for the improved management of ecosystems and natural resources. However, many long-term research and monitoring programs are either ineffective or fail completely owing to poor planning and/or lack of focus. Here we propose the paradigm of adaptive monitoring, which aims to resolve many of the problems that have undermined previous attempts to establish long-term research and monitoring. This paradigm is driven by tractable questions, rigorous statistical design at the outset, a conceptual model of the ecosystem or other entity being examined and a human need to know about ecosystem change. An adaptive monitoring framework enables monitoring programs to evolve iteratively as new information emerges and research questions change.