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Local Participation in Natural Resource Monitoring: a Characterization of Approaches 总被引:3,自引:0,他引:3
FINN DANIELSEN NEIL D. BURGESS ANDREW BALMFORD PAUL F. DONALD MIKKEL FUNDER JULIA P. G. JONES PHILIP ALVIOLA DANILO S. BALETE TOM BLOMLEY JUSTIN BRASHARES BRIAN CHILD MARTIN ENGHOFF JON FJELDSÅ SUNE HOLT HANNE HÜBERTZ ARNE E. JENSEN PER M. JENSEN JOHN MASSAO MARLYNN M. MENDOZA YONIKA NGAGA MICHAEL K. POULSEN RICARDO RUEDA MOSES SAM THOMAS SKIELBOE GREG STUART‐HILL ELMER TOPP‐JØRGENSEN DEKI YONTEN 《Conservation biology》2009,23(1):31-42
Abstract: The monitoring of trends in the status of species or habitats is routine in developed countries, where it is funded by the state or large nongovernmental organizations and often involves large numbers of skilled amateur volunteers. Far less monitoring of natural resources takes place in developing countries, where state agencies have small budgets, there are fewer skilled professionals or amateurs, and socioeconomic conditions prevent development of a culture of volunteerism. The resulting lack of knowledge about trends in species and habitats presents a serious challenge for detecting, understanding, and reversing declines in natural resource values. International environmental agreements require signatories undertake systematic monitoring of their natural resources, but no system exists to guide the development and expansion of monitoring schemes. To help develop such a protocol, we suggest a typology of monitoring categories, defined by their degree of local participation, ranging from no local involvement with monitoring undertaken by professional researchers to an entirely local effort with monitoring undertaken by local people. We assessed the strengths and weaknesses of each monitoring category and the potential of each to be sustainable in developed or developing countries. Locally based monitoring is particularly relevant in developing countries, where it can lead to rapid decisions to solve the key threats affecting natural resources, can empower local communities to better manage their resources, and can refine sustainable‐use strategies to improve local livelihoods. Nevertheless, we recognize that the accuracy and precision of the monitoring undertaken by local communities in different situations needs further study and field protocols need to be further developed to get the best from the unrealized potential of this approach. A challenge to conservation biologists is to identify and establish the monitoring system most relevant to a particular situation and to develop methods to integrate outputs from across the spectrum of monitoring schemes to produce wider indices of natural resources that capture the strengths of each. 相似文献
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Knowledge of the forces driving and modifying ecosystems can be employed in concert with signal analysis to target the data
most likely to yield sensitivity and resilience information. One can optimize return of information per investment of resources
by targeting segments of signals that are dominated by the force of interest, coupled with scientific understanding of the
system of interest. This force analysis approach is an effective means both to design efficient new monitoring programs and
to target relevant information in large data files. We present five example applications of force analysis. Three examples
illustrate this approach for an evaluation of whether Canadian rivers might be sensitive to changes in climate. It was concluded
that Canadian rivers appear to be sensitive to changing climate. A fourth example illustrates how automated snow pillow data
may be evaluated to ascertain the sensitivity of snow accumulation to change in climate. It was concluded that snow accumulation
at the site evaluated did appear to be sensitive to changing climate. The fifth example illustrates the assessment of whether
a river recovers with the elimination of inputs of iron from an abandoned mine. It was concluded that resilience remained
unproven since the river had not as yet restabilized. The force analysis approach focuses data collection or data evaluation
on those data required to answer specific resource management questions, greatly reducing collection or consideration of data
that are not relevant to that question. This approach is potentially very cost-efficient and therefore is likely to be of
interest to hydrologists, climatologists, and environmental data managers. 相似文献
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The purpose of this paper is to report two studies that investigated the consequences of organizational politics and organizational support on two separate samples of employees. Study 1 surveys 69 full-time employees, while Study 2's sample includes 185 part-time workers. Four major findings were observed. First, the present studies replicated prior findings concerning the relationships of politics and support to such variables as withdrawal behaviors, turnover intentions, job satisfaction and organizational commitment. In general, politics is related to negative work outcomes while support is related to positive ones. Consistent results were obtained within both the full- and part-time samples. Second, we elaborated upon previous work concerning the relationship of politics and support to job involvement. Third, we found in both samples that politics and support did predict above and beyond each other, suggesting that they should be viewed as separate constructs rather than opposite ends of a single continuum. Lastly, Study 2 extended the research on politics and support by analyzing their relationships to four work stress variables: job tension, somatic tension, general fatigue, and burnout. Each of these four variables was predicted by both politics and support. © 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. 相似文献
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ALEXANDER M. VON BENDA‐BECKMANN PAUL J. WENSVEEN PETTER H. KVADSHEIM FRANS‐PETER A. LAM PATRICK J. O. MILLER PETER L. TYACK MICHAEL A. AINSLIE 《Conservation biology》2014,28(1):119-128
Ramp‐up or soft‐start procedures (i.e., gradual increase in the source level) are used to mitigate the effect of sonar sound on marine mammals, although no one to date has tested whether ramp‐up procedures are effective at reducing the effect of sound on marine mammals. We investigated the effectiveness of ramp‐up procedures in reducing the area within which changes in hearing thresholds can occur. We modeled the level of sound killer whales (Orcinus orca) were exposed to from a generic sonar operation preceded by different ramp‐up schemes. In our model, ramp‐up procedures reduced the risk of killer whales receiving sounds of sufficient intensity to affect their hearing. The effectiveness of the ramp‐up procedure depended strongly on the assumed response threshold and differed with ramp‐up duration, although extending the duration of the ramp up beyond 5 min did not add much to its predicted mitigating effect. The main factors that limited effectiveness of ramp up in a typical antisubmarine warfare scenario were high source level, rapid moving sonar source, and long silences between consecutive sonar transmissions. Our exposure modeling approach can be used to evaluate and optimize mitigation procedures. Modelado de la Efectividad de los Incrementos Graduales en el Nivel de la Fuente para Mitigar Efectos de Sonar sobre Mamíferos Marinos 相似文献
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Judicious Use of Multiple Hypothesis Tests 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
Abstract: When analyzing a table of statistical results, one must first decide whether adjustment of significance levels is appropriate. If the main goal is hypothesis generation or initial screening for potential conservation problems, then it may be appropriate to use the standard comparisonwise significance level to avoid Type II errors (not detecting real differences or trends). If the main goal is rigorous testing of a hypothesis, however, then an adjustment for multiple tests is needed. To control the familywise Type I error rate (the probability of rejecting at least one true null hypothesis), sequential modifications of the standard Bonferroni method, such as Holm's method, will provide more statistical power than the standard Bonferroni method. Additional power may be achieved through procedures that control the false discovery rate (FDR) (the expected proportion of false positives among tests found to be significant). Holm's sequential Bonferroni method and two FDR-controlling procedures were applied to the results of multiple-regression analyses of the relationship between habitat variables and the abundance of 25 species of forest birds in Japan, and the FDR-controlling procedures provided considerably greater statistical power. 相似文献
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Individual- and Assemblage-Level Effects of Anthropogenic Sedimentation on Snails in Lake Tanganyika 总被引:5,自引:0,他引:5
PETER B. McINTYRE † ELLINOR MICHEL‡ KRISTIN FRANCE§ ADAM RIVERS‡‡ PAUL HAKIZIMANA†† ANDREW S. COHEN 《Conservation biology》2005,19(1):171-181
Abstract: Human impacts on aquatic biodiversity are often measured at the assemblage or community level, although it has been suggested that individual-level measures are more sensitive. We evaluated the effects of anthropogenic sedimentation on endemic snails in Lake Tanganyika, East Africa, by comparing assemblage-level (i.e., species richness, evenness, and abundance) and individual-level (i.e., frequencies of predation and parasitism, fecal organic content, life history) data between sediment-disturbed and reference sites. Previous studies have indicated that sedimentation kills snails and reduces mollusc diversity in this system, but we found little evidence of changes in species richness, evenness, or snail abundance at the levels of sedimentation recorded. In contrast, individual-level data revealed a variety of differences associated with sedimentation. Frequencies of shell scarring by predatory crabs and castration by parasitic trematodes were significantly lower at disturbed sites, indicating shifts in interspecific interactions. Snails ingested large amounts of inorganic sediments at disturbed sites, suggesting a reduction in food quality. In addition, sedimentation was associated with a large downward shift in size distribution within some species and reproduction at smaller size. These strong patterns in individual-level data contrast with the lack of effects at the assemblage level. We argue that incorporating individual-level measures will often enhance the sensitivity of impact surveys and may reveal effects of disturbance on important interspecific interactions. 相似文献
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