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Adaptive monitoring: a new paradigm for long-term research and monitoring

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Although long-term monitoring can provide important ecological insights and is crucial for improved management of ecosystems and natural resources, many monitoring programs are either ineffective or fail completely due to poor planning or lack of focus. This paper proposes the paradigm of adaptive monitoring, which aims to resolve many of the problems that have undermined previous attempts to establish long-term programs. This paradigm is driven by tractable questions, rigorous statistical design at the outset, a conceptual model of the ecosystem or other entity being examined and a human need to know about ecosystem change. An adaptive monitoring framework enables monitoring programs to evolve iteratively as new information emerges and research questions change.

CREATION DATE	September 10, 2009
LAST MODIFIED	September 10, 2009
CREATED BY	Lisa Sorenson
KEYWORDS	Monitoring Papers
PUBLICATION YEAR	2009
JOURNAL NAME	Trends in Ecology and Evolution
REVIEWED STATUS	Formal Peer Review
LICENSE	Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike