Balancing Monitoring and Management in the Adaptive Management of an Invasive Species.

ABSTRACT: Efficient allocation of managers' limited resources is necessary to effectively control invasive species, but determining how to allocate effort between monitoring and management over space and time remains a challenge. In an adaptive management context, monitoring data are key for gaining knowledge and iteratively improving management, but monitoring costs money. Community science or other opportunistic monitoring data present an opportunity for managers to gain critical knowledge without a substantial reduction in management funds. We designed a management strategy evaluation to investigate optimal spatial allocation of resources to monitoring and management, while also exploring the potential for community science data to improve decision-making, using adaptive management of invasive fl

SUBMITTER: Thompson BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11961554 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature