Sampling re-design increases power to detect change in the Great Barrier Reef's inshore water quality.

ABSTRACT: Monitoring programs are fundamental to understanding the state and trend of aquatic ecosystems. Sampling designs are a crucial component of monitoring programs and ensure that measurements evaluate progress toward clearly stated management objectives, which provides a mechanism for adaptive management. Here, we use a well-established marine monitoring program for inshore water quality in the Great Barrier Reef (GBR), Australia to investigate whether a sampling re-design has increased the program's capacity to meet its primary objectives. Specifically, we use bootstrap resampling to assess the change in statistical power to detect temporal water quality trends in a 15-year inshore marine water quality data set that includes data from both before and after the sampling re-design. We perform

SUBMITTER: Lloyd-Jones LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9333274 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature