Necessity and reality of monitoring threatened European vascular plants

Kull, Tiiu; Sammul, Marek; Kull, Kalevi; Lanno, Kaire; Tali, Kadri; Gruber, Bernd; Schmeller, Dirk S.; Henle, Klaus

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“…In general, all biodiversity surveys and monitoring should be able to answer three fundamental questions before any effort into the practical work is allocated: why biodiversity is studied, which aspects of the biodiversity are studied, and how the study is going to be conducted (Yoccoz et al 2001). Despite the wealth of existing research knowledge, surprisingly, many biodiversity surveys and monitoring projects still suffer from poorly selected methods which are far from optimal considering the, often poorly defined, targets of the projects (Kleijn et al 2006;Legg and Nagy 2006;Field et al 2007;Kull et al 2008).…”

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The importance of timing and number of surveys in fungal biodiversity research

Halme

Kotiaho

2011

Biodivers Conserv

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Practical conservation of biological diversity is dependent on reliable knowledge about what kind, how much, and where the diversity is. To obtain such knowledge three questions, why, what, and how, must be answered before commencing any biodiversity survey. While the questions why and what are often value decisions and thus determined outside the realm of scientific research, the question about how the surveys are conducted lies in the heart of science. Here, we report an intensive repeated survey of wood-inhabiting fungi with the aim of determining the optimal timing and number of the surveys for reliable estimation of the diversity of this species group. The research focusing on the ecology of wood-inhabiting fungi has been increasing but little is known about the reliability of the methods. The variation in the estimates of diversity among surveys was high and the results varied between studied species groups. The site-scale detectability for species belonging to different groups varied from 10 to 95% depending on the survey month and the species group. We conclude that because detectability of many fungi turned out to be poor even when surveys were conducted at an optimal time, the common practice of using a single fruit body survey to estimate fungal diversity of any given area is not enough. We suggest that multiple surveys at an optimal time should be a norm in fungal diversity studies. Improper methodology results in unreliable outcomes that have potential to hamper our goal of conserving the biological diversity.

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The importance of timing and number of surveys in fungal biodiversity research

Halme

Kotiaho

2011

Biodivers Conserv

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“…However, quantitative assessments of monitoring practices at varying spatial scales were not available at the time of these publications (Marsh and Trenham 2008). Large databases collecting data on and rating monitoring practices are now becoming available (Kull et al 2008;Lengyel et al 2008;Schmeller et al 2009) and provide the first opportunity for a quantitative assessment of how well monitoring practices match methodological recommendations.…”

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Bird-monitoring in Europe – a first overview of practices, motivations and aims

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Henle²,

Loyau³

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Biodiversity monitoring is central to conservation biology, allowing the evaluation of the conservation status of species or the assessment of mechanisms of biodiversity change. Birds are the first taxonomic group to be used to build headline indicators of biodiversity due to their worldwide spatial and temporal coverage and their popularity. However, the landscape of bird-monitoring practices has never been characterized quantitatively. To objectively explore the strengths and weaknesses of the massive bird-monitoring effort in Europe we assessed the bird-monitoring practices, acquired with a questionnaire-based survey, in a sample of monitoring programs. We identify major correlates of among-program variability and compare monitoring practices from our database to recommendations of best monitoring practices. In total, we obtained responses from 144 bird-monitoring programs. We distinguish three types of monitoring programs according to the number of people that they involve: small, local-scale programs (56%), medium or regional programs (19%), and large-scale, national and international, programs (23%). In total, the programs in our sample involved 27941 persons, investing 79298 person days per year. Our survey illustrated that 65% of programs collected quantitative indices of abundance (count data). The monitoring design in a majority of the programs could be improved, notably in terms of unbiased spatial coverage, sampling effort optimization, replicated sampling to account for variations in detection probability, and more efficient statistical use of the data. We discuss the main avenues for improvement in bird-monitoring practices that emerge from this comparison of current practices and published methodological recommendations. REsEARCh ARtiClE Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservationA peer-reviewed open-access journal Dirk S. Schmeller et al. / Nature Conservation 2: 41-57 (2012) 42

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“…Over subsequent years, the monitoring of habitats and species became a core activity of nature conservation across the planet and an important chapter of conservation biology (Goldsmith 1991, Elzinga et al 2001, Marsh and Trenham 2008, Schmeller 2008. Species monitoring is the regular observation and recording of changes in status and trend of species in a certain territory (Kull et al 2008). The major aim of monitoring is to collect information that can be used for conservation policy, to examine the outcomes of management actions and to guide future management decisions (Kull et al 2008).…”

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“…Species monitoring is the regular observation and recording of changes in status and trend of species in a certain territory (Kull et al 2008). The major aim of monitoring is to collect information that can be used for conservation policy, to examine the outcomes of management actions and to guide future management decisions (Kull et al 2008). It consists of collecting reliable data which in turn allow the researchers to draw conclusions that species and ecosystems are changing their status through time and space, either naturally or as a consequence of deliberate or unintentional human intervention.…”

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“…Thus, the conservation status of saproxylic beetles and the species richness of their communities cannot be inferred directly from the amount of dead wood currently present. The conservation of saproxylic insects is also pursued in managed forests by applying particular management methods, such as "retention forestry" (Lindenmayer and Franklin 2002), the "îlots de sénescence" [senescence islands] (Lachat and Bütler 2008), "forest biodiversity artery" (Mason and Zapponi 2015) or by artificially increasing dead wood (Cavalli andMason 2003, Zapponi et al 2014).…”

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The LIFE Project “Monitoring of insects with public participation” (MIPP): aims, methods and conclusions

Carpaneto¹,

Campanaro²,

Hardersen³

et al. 2017

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The Life Project "Monitoring of insects with public participation" (LIFE11 NAT/IT/000252) had as the main objective to develop and test methods for the monitoring of five beetle species listed in the Annexes of the Habitats Directive (92/43/EEC): Osmoderma eremita (hermit beetle, Scarabaeidae), Lucanus cervus (European stag beetle, Lucanidae), Cerambyx cerdo (great capricorn beetle, Cerambycidae), Rosalia alpina (rosalia longicorn, Cerambycidae) and Morimus asper/funereus (morimus longicorn, Cerambycidae). The data gathered represent an important contribution to the monitoring of these target species in Italy. The methods developed for monitoring of the target species are intended for use by the local management authorities and staff of protected areas. These developed methods are the result of extensive fieldwork and ensure scientific validity, ease of execution and limited labour costs. The detailed description of methods and the results for each species are published in separate articles of this special issue of Nature Conservation. A second objective of the project was to gather faunistic data with a Citizen Science approach, using the web and a mobile application software (app) specifically built for mobile devices. The validation of the records CONSERVATION IN PRACTICE Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservationA peer-reviewed open-access journal Giuseppe M. Carpaneto et al. / Nature Conservation 20: 1-35 (2017) 2 collected by the citizens was carried out by experts, based on photographs, which were obligatory for all records. Dissemination activities represented the principal way to contact and engage citizens for the data collection and also offered the possibility of providing information on topics such as Natura 2000, the Habitats Directive, the role of monitoring in nature conservation, the importance of forest ecosystems and the ecological role of the saproxylic insects. An innovative method tested during the project was the training of a dog for searching and monitoring the elusive hermit beetle; the trained dog also added a "curiosity" factor to attract public attention towards this rare insect and the issues mentioned above.

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Necessity and reality of monitoring threatened European vascular plants

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The importance of timing and number of surveys in fungal biodiversity research

The importance of timing and number of surveys in fungal biodiversity research

Bird-monitoring in Europe – a first overview of practices, motivations and aims

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