Effective ecological monitoring

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Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface to Second Edition
Chapter 1 Introduction
	Some of the ecological values and uses of long-term datasets
		Time until expression
		Informing policies and legislation in environmental management
		Use in simulation modelling
		Tests of ecological theory
		Development of co-located, collaborative and multidisciplinary work
		Detection of surprises
	Poor record of long-term ecological monitoring
	Why we wrote this book
		1. Societal need
		2. Correcting the record – countering the perception that long-term studies in ecology are poor quality science
		3. Making sense of the vast monitoring literature
		4. Providing an overview of success and failure
		5. New perspectives
	References
Chapter 2 Why monitoring fails
	Characteristics of ineffective monitoring programs
		Failure to ask the preliminary and fundamental question – Is monitoring needed at all?
		Passive, mindless and lacking questions
		Lack of trigger points for action
		Poor experimental design
		Snowed by a blizzard of ecological details
		Squabbles about what to monitor – 'It's not monitoring without the mayflies'
		Assumption that 'one size fits all'
		Big machines that go ' bing'
		Disengagement
		Rush to get 'real work' happening on the ground and accusations of program over- engineering
		Poor data management
		Breaches of data integrity
	Other factors contributing to ineffective monitoring programs
		Lack of funding – grant myopia
		The loss of a champion
		Out of nowhere
		Excessive bureaucracy
	Summary
	References
Chapter 3 What makes long-term monitoring effective?
	Characteristics of effective monitoring programs
		Good questions and evolving questions
		The use of a conceptual model
		Selection of appropriate entities to measure
		Good design
		Well- developed partnerships
		Strong and dedicated leadership
		Potential to identify key emerging issues
		Ongoing funding
		Frequent use of data
		Scientific productivity
		Maintenance of data integrity and calibration of field techniques
	Little things matter a lot! Some ' tricks of the trade'
		Field transport
		Field staff
		Access to field sites
		Time in the field
	The adaptive monitoring framework
		Examples of the adaptive monitoring framework
		Adaptive monitoring is a general and not a prescriptive framework
		Increased future role for adaptive monitoring
	Summary
	References
Chapter 4 The problematic, the effective and the ugly – some case studies
	The problematic
		PPBio Australasia
		The Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Program (ABMP)
		EMAP
	The effective
		Rothamsted
		Ecosystem Health Monitoring Program (EHMP) for Moreton Bay in South East Queensland, Australia
		The Hubbard Brook Ecosystem Study
		The Central Highlands of Victoria, south- eastern Australia
	Need to wait and see
		NEON/ TERN
	The ugly
	Summary
	References
Chapter 5 The upshot – our general conclusions
	Changes in culture needed to facilitate monitoring
		The academic culture and rewards systems
		Structure of organisations
		Funding
		Societal culture
	Good things that can come from non- question based monitoring
	The role of citizen science in long-term monitoring
	The challenge of intellectual property and data sharing
	The challenges in effective monitoring of rare, threatened and endangered species
	The major challenge of keeping monitoring and long-term studies going
	The big issue of integrating different kinds of monitoring
	Approaches to integrate data from different kinds of monitoring
		The challenges posed by differences in the kinds of entities that are monitored in different ecosystems
		Using environmental and economic accounts as a way to demonstrate the value of monitoring and cement support for monitoring in place
	Concluding remarks
	References
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