Evaluation of Environmental Monitoring Strategies

Rönnbäck, Britt-Inger; Nordberg, Maj-Liz; Olsson, Anders; Östman, Anders

doi:10.1639/0044-7447(2003)032[0495:eoems]2.0.co;2

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“…To evaluate the results of such sensitivity analysis, its impact on the decisions must be studies. One approach to this, is to use expected utilities as measures (54). In this approach, the utility of each possible decision is estimated, and using probabilistic estimates from the Monte-Carlo simulations, the overall expected utility can be estimated.…”

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Two-dimensional Gap Analysis: A Tool for Efficient Conservation Planning and Biodiversity Policy Implementation

Angelstam

Mikusiński²,

Rönnbäck³

et al. 2003

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment

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The maintenance of biodiversity by securing representative and well-connected habitat networks in managed landscapes requires a wise combination of protection, management, and restoration of habitats at several scales. We suggest that the integration of natural and social sciences in the form of "Two-dimensional gap analysis" is an efficient tool for the implementation of biodiversity policies. The tool links biologically relevant "horizontal" ecological issues with "vertical" issues related to institutions and other societal issues. Using forest biodiversity as an example, we illustrate how one can combine ecological and institutional aspects of biodiversity conservation, thus facilitating environmentally sustainable regional development. In particular, we use regional gap analysis for identification of focal forest types, habitat modelling for ascertaining the functional connectivity of "green infrastructures", as tools for the horizontal gap analysis. For the vertical dimension we suggest how the social sciences can be used for assessing the success in the implementation of biodiversity policies in real landscapes by identifying institutional obstacles while implementing policies. We argue that this interdisciplinary approach could be applied in a whole range of other environments including other terrestrial biota and aquatic ecosystems where functional habitat connectivity, nonlinear response to habitat loss and a multitude of economic and social interests co-occur in the same landscape.

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Section: Sensitivity Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

Two-dimensional Gap Analysis: A Tool for Efficient Conservation Planning and Biodiversity Policy Implementation

Angelstam

Mikusiński²,

Rönnbäck³

et al. 2003

AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment

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Modifications to a communication protocol for a central station monitoring system in a wireless network

Jorge¹,

Mulet²,

Santos³

et al.

World Congress on Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering 2006

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A spatially explicit methodology fora prioriestimation of field survey effort in environmental observation networks

Guerra

Metzger

Honrado

et al. 2013

International Journal of Geographical Information Science

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When establishing environmental monitoring programmes, it crucial to make reliable cost estimates, especially where a field survey is involved. This paper presents a methodology for creating a spatial measure of a field survey effort (SE). A set of relevant variables affecting a SE (e.g. areas with rough terrain, or distant from the main road network) was classified using fuzzy sets and then combined to produce spatially explicit effort indicators, which were integrated to a single measure using an analytic hierarchy process (AHP). To evaluate this approach and identify the limits for its application, three spatially nested case studies were used to test the spatial expression of SE and the scalable capacity of the method itself. The presented methodology could cope with variations in the scale and data resolution, retrieving a coherent estimate of SE across the different case studies. The presented methodology is therefore useful for (i) testing the network designs for sampling bias related to SE, (ii) comparing alternative sampling designs, (iii) assessing the sampling costs and (iv) supporting the human and logistical resource management.

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Evaluation of Environmental Monitoring Strategies

Cited by 3 publications

References 7 publications

Two-dimensional Gap Analysis: A Tool for Efficient Conservation Planning and Biodiversity Policy Implementation

Two-dimensional Gap Analysis: A Tool for Efficient Conservation Planning and Biodiversity Policy Implementation

Modifications to a communication protocol for a central station monitoring system in a wireless network

A spatially explicit methodology fora prioriestimation of field survey effort in environmental observation networks

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