Evaluating veld condition index: How many samples are enough?

Hart, Adam G.; Carpenter, William S.; McTavish, Lynne; Blades, Bryony; Clarke, E. A.; Griffiths, Shaun; Harding, Nadine; Walsh, Emily S.; Wilson, Louisa; Scott, Rebekah; Goodenough, Anne E.

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“…Whilst postgraduate students normally first-author their contributions in professional (non-undergraduate) Improving real-world impact from research-focused experiential learning in higher education: A call -to-arms and a case study from field ecology journals as guided by their supervisors, and co-authorship of scientific articles in professional journals by undergraduate students occurs, it is not always explicit and may replace transparency regarding student participation in methods sections (i.e., an either/or approach). For example, a project on tools for quantifying biodiversity and assessing management outcomes in a South-African savannah ecosystem yielded three publications that included undergraduate students as co-authors but did not explicitly refer to this anywhere in the manuscript (Goodenough et al, 2017(Goodenough et al, , 2020Hart et al, 2020). It also yielded two publications that clearly described the inclusion of 50 undergraduate students in the methods section but did not include any of them as co-authors and did not list their names in the acknowledgements (Goodenough et al, 2018a(Goodenough et al, , 2018b.…”

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Improving Real-World Impact From Research-Focussed Experiential Learning In Higher Education; A Call-To-Arms Centring On Field Ecological Monitoring

Tolhurst

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Friscia

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Research-focussed experiential learning (RFEL), where students develop academic research skills by participating in research activities, is a valuable and widespread component of higher education. It is also a potentially important source of research currency for academic staff in teaching-focussed universities. Numerous initiatives facilitate this practice in an extra-curricular capacity, whilst its integration into curricula is less widespread, but is gaining momentum. Nonetheless, real-world impact deriving from RFEL is not as visible as might be expected, and we argue that the RFEL paradigm has yet to achieve its full potential. We discuss how to overcome barriers to visibility and effective implementation of RFEL in terms of real-world outcomes, for our own discipline – ecology. A capacity gap exists, particularly at the local level, in effective ecological site monitoring for biodiversity conservation and other forms of environmental management. We believe there is currently underused potential in integrating RFEL via student field experience (field trips, field work, field classes, or field programmes) to fill this gap. We show how the parallel process of citizen science, where participating university students and others outside academia collect data as volunteers, lends insights and best practice recommendations to the field experience RFEL model. RFEL is critically important for upskilling students for competitive career markets. We outline five ways in which it can be galvanised to additionally and effectively yield real-world research and management outcomes, adding value within the sector.

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Improving Real-World Impact From Research-Focussed Experiential Learning In Higher Education; A Call-To-Arms Centring On Field Ecological Monitoring

Tolhurst

White

Friscia

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“…Management decisions, including whether to translocate, introduce or cull certain species, rely on accurate survey data whilst conservation strategies are fundamentally determined by the knowledge of which species are present (Goodenough and Hart 2017). There has been considerable research to develop and refine ecological surveying methods, including consideration of optimal sample sizes (Stockwell and Peterson 2002;Hart et al 2020), spatial coverage (Rees et al 2011;Einoder et al 2018), study duration (Mackenzie and Royle 2005;Halstead et al 2021) and inter-observer variation (Cherrill and McClean 1999;Kolada et al 2014;Goodenough et al 2020). There has also been extensive development of the technology used in ecological surveying, including remote sensing (Pettorelli et al 2014), tracking movement of animals using GPS (Seidel et al 2018) or light-logger geolocators (McKinnon et al 2013), unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) (Sun et al 2017), thermal imaging (Goodenough et al 2018), passive audio detection (Sugai et al 2019), and camera trapping (Delisle et el.…”

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Comparing the effectiveness of camera trapping, driven transects and ad hoc records for surveying nocturnal mammals against a known species assemblage

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Dawson²,

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The impact of inter-observer variability on the accuracy, precision and utility of a commonly-used grassland condition index

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Evaluating veld condition index: How many samples are enough?

Cited by 4 publications

References 9 publications

Improving Real-World Impact From Research-Focussed Experiential Learning In Higher Education; A Call-To-Arms Centring On Field Ecological Monitoring

Improving Real-World Impact From Research-Focussed Experiential Learning In Higher Education; A Call-To-Arms Centring On Field Ecological Monitoring

Comparing the effectiveness of camera trapping, driven transects and ad hoc records for surveying nocturnal mammals against a known species assemblage

The impact of inter-observer variability on the accuracy, precision and utility of a commonly-used grassland condition index

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