Journal article
Towards quantitative condition assessment of biodiversity outcomes: Insights from Australian marine protected areas
PFE Addison, LB Flander, CN Cook
Journal of Environmental Management | ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD | Published : 2017
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Abstract
Protected area management effectiveness (PAME) evaluation is increasingly undertaken to evaluate governance, assess conservation outcomes and inform evidence-based management of protected areas (PAs). Within PAME, quantitative approaches to assess biodiversity outcomes are now emerging, where biological monitoring data are directly assessed against quantitative (numerically defined) condition categories (termed quantitative condition assessments). However, more commonly qualitative condition assessments are employed in PAME, which use descriptive condition categories and are evaluated largely with expert judgement that can be subject to a range of biases, such as linguistic uncertainty and o..
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Awarded by Natural Environment Research Council
Funding Acknowledgements
We thank all of the informants who donated their time to participate in this research. We thank Mark Burgman, Jan Carey and the anonymous reviewers for valuable comments on early versions of this manuscript. PFEA would like to thank the supporters of this research: Australian Postgraduate Award scholarship; the Centre of Excellence for Biosecurity Risk Analysis, Parks Victoria's Research Partners Program; the Australian Government's National Environment Research Program, Marine Biodiversity Research Hub; and, the UK Natural Environmental Research Council Knowledge Exchange fellowship scheme (NE/N005457/1). CNC was supported by the National Environment Research Program Environmental Decisions Hub.