Biodiversity Monitoring and the Role of Scientists in the Twenty-first Century

Ferreira, Catarina; Stephenson, P. J.; Gill, Mike; Regan, Eugenie

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-81085-6_2

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“…The gap between the PA managers' perception and professional monitoring results comes from missing reference situations for the species and habitats, making any inter-temporal and inter-spatial comparison complicated. Therefore, we need rigid accuracy testing rules and solid reference baselines for the data inputs from 'citizen science' since any misjudgment about species, or habitat change can lead to inadequate management response [47][48][49][50][51][52].…”

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Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

2022

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The rationale of this article is the need to elicit the trending themes relevant to the latest research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. Hence, the purpose of this study: stocktaking of cutting-edge research articles in this field and eliciting the critical trends and issues shaping the knowledge, future research, and technical development perspectives on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability. The focus is on the trends, which are pivotal for achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals until 2030. A hierarchical cluster analysis was undertaken with a KH Coder 3.0 tool to elicit topical co-occurrence networks for thematic words in academic papers from 2015 to 2020 on the topic, quarried from Google Scholar. The article’s main findings are the seven identified major trending research themes on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability: (1) Community-based tourism development; (2) National Park management for tourism; (3) Sustainable tourist motivation; (4) Biodiversity conservation and ecotourism; (5) Landscape and land use changes; (6) Visitor satisfaction monitoring; and (7) Ecotourism modelling. The article’s main conclusion is that the criteria and conditions for responsible low-key tourism in protected areas, both for biodiversity and local communities, are pivotal factors to consider for future research on biodiversity conservation and tourism sustainability.

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Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

2022

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“…Monitoring at large spatial and temporal scales poses challenges [57][58][59]. Many attributes of landscapes are hard to measure, and the scale of interventions and the lack of clear and agreed indicator frameworks mean monitoring seldom provides data on long-term environmental and social impacts [60,9,61].…”

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Exploring Challenges and Lessons for Monitoring Forest Landscape Restoration

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Stephenson

2023

Curr Landscape Ecol Rep

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Purpose of Review Forest landscape restoration (FLR) is an approach to restoring forest ecosystems first defined in 2000 that has gained prominence since the launch of the Bonn Challenge in 2011. FLR aims to enhance ecological integrity and improve human well-being within (forested) landscapes. The monitoring of FLR is essential to ensure effective implementation and to learn from practice. Yet to this day, monitoring remains a major challenge for FLR. Monitoring FLR requires measures at a landscape scale and across social and natural sciences. We explore some of the monitoring challenges raised by these dimensions of FLR. We assess the current theory and practice behind FLR monitoring and how it relates to practices in related environmental disciplines. Recent Findings We highlight the challenges raised by the recent attempts at monitoring FLR and explore lessons from other related fields and conclude by proposing a framework of the basic issues to consider when monitoring FLR. Summary

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“…Data accessibility can also be blocked by a lack of capacity to identify, collate, and use the data (see below), as well as a lack of clear national policies and legislation on data sharing. Where data accessibility is not a barrier, data are frequently scattered, fragmented, of poor quality, and rarely available in the right format at the right time [4][5][6]113,139,140]. In some cases, such as with protected areas management in Kenya [7], data may be used for planning new reserves but less so in their management, where preventing poaching becomes a higher priority than biodiversity monitoring.…”

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Measuring the Impact of Conservation: The Growing Importance of Monitoring Fauna, Flora and Funga

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Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and sustainably manage nature. Here we review the importance of enhancing biodiversity monitoring, assess the challenges involved and identify potential solutions. Capacity for biodiversity monitoring needs to be enhanced urgently, especially in poorer, high-biodiversity countries where data gaps are disproportionately high. Modern tools and technologies, including remote sensing, bioacoustics and environmental DNA, should be used at larger scales to fill taxonomic and geographic data gaps, especially in the tropics, in marine and freshwater biomes, and for plants, fungi and invertebrates. Stakeholders need to follow best monitoring practices, adopting appropriate indicators and using counterfactual approaches to measure and attribute outcomes and impacts. Data should be made openly and freely available. Companies need to invest in collecting the data required to enhance sustainability in their operations and supply chains. With governments soon to commit to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the time is right to make a concerted push on monitoring. However, action at scale is needed now if we are to enhance results-based management adequately to conserve the biodiversity and ecosystem services we all depend on.

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Biodiversity Monitoring and the Role of Scientists in the Twenty-first Century

Cited by 7 publications

References 102 publications

Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

Current Trends and Issues in Research on Biodiversity Conservation and Tourism Sustainability

Exploring Challenges and Lessons for Monitoring Forest Landscape Restoration

Measuring the Impact of Conservation: The Growing Importance of Monitoring Fauna, Flora and Funga

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