Developing and enhancing biodiversity monitoring programmes: a collaborative assessment of priorities.

ABSTRACT: Biodiversity is changing at unprecedented rates, and it is increasingly important that these changes are quantified through monitoring programmes. Previous recommendations for developing or enhancing these programmes focus either on the end goals, that is the intended use of the data, or on how these goals are achieved, for example through volunteer involvement in citizen science, but not both. These recommendations are rarely prioritized.We used a collaborative approach, involving 52 experts in biodiversity monitoring in the UK, to develop a list of attributes of relevance to any biodiversity monitoring programme and to order these attributes by their priority. We also ranked the attributes according to their importance in monitoring biodiversity in the UK. Experts involved included data

SUBMITTER: Pocock MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5008152 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature