A simple survey protocol for assessing terrestrial biodiversity in a broad range of ecosystems.

ABSTRACT: Finding standard cost-effective methods for monitoring biodiversity is challenging due to trade-offs between survey costs (including expertise), specificity, and range of applicability. These trade-offs cause a lack of comparability among datasets collected by ecologists and conservationists, which is most regrettable in taxonomically demanding work on megadiverse inconspicuous taxon groups. We have developed a site-scale survey method for diverse sessile land organisms, which can be analyzed over multiple scales and linked with ecological insights and management. The core idea is that field experts can effectively allocate observation effort when the time, area, and priority sequence of tasks are fixed. We present the protocol, explain its specifications (taxon group; expert qualification

SUBMITTER: Lohmus A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6291155 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature