Biodiversity Monitoring in Australia

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Editor(s): David Lindenmayer; Philip Gibbons

Print Publication Date: 2012

https://doi.org/10.1071/9780643103580

ISBN: 9780643103580

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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CHAPTER 1.

Acknowledgements

CHAPTER 2.

List of Contributors

CHAPTER 3.

Introduction: Making Monitoring Happen - and Then Delivering on Australia's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy

David Lindenmayer , Philip Gibbons

CHAPTER 4.

Part I: National and International Perspectives; 1 Making Monitoring Up-front and Centre in Australian Biodiversity Conservation

David Lindenmayer

CHAPTER 5.

Part I; 2 Accountability: We're an Indulgent and Marginal Profession if We Can't Measure the Effectiveness of Investment in Environmental Management

John C. Z. Woinarski

CHAPTER 6.

Part I; 3 Ecoinformatics Solutions to Support Monitoring for Improved Biodiversity Conservation

Andre Zerger , Warwick McDonald

CHAPTER 7.

Part I; 4 Monitoring Australian Birds to Meet International Obligations

Stephen T. Garnett

CHAPTER 8.

Part I; 5 Cheerfulness and Grumpiness in Ecological Monitoring in Australia

Richard J. Hobbs

CHAPTER 9.

Part I; 6 The Conservation Return on Investment from Ecological Monitoring

Hugh P. Possingham , Brendan A. Wintle , Richard A. Fuller , Liana N. Joseph

CHAPTER 10.

Part I; 7 Big-Picture Assessment of Biodiversity Change: Scaling Up Monitoring Without Selling Out on Scientific Rigour

Simon Ferrier

CHAPTER 11.

Part I; 8 An Endpoint Hierarchy and Process Control Charts for Ecological Monitoring

Mark Burgman , Kim Lowell , Peter Woodgate , Simon Jones , Gary Richards , Prue Addison

CHAPTER 12.

Part I; 9 Lessons from Environment Accounting for Improving Biodiversity Monitoring

Michael Vardon

CHAPTER 13.

Part II, Government Agency and NGO Perspectives; 10 Cows, Cockies and Atlases: Use and Abuse of Biodiversity Monitoring in Environmental Decision-Making

James Fitzsimons

CHAPTER 14.

Part II; 11 A Park Manager's Perspective on Ecological Monitoring

Tony Varcoe

CHAPTER 15.

Part II; 12 Monitoring for Improved Biodiversity Outcomes in the Private Conservation Estate: Perspective from Bush Heritage Australia

Jim Radford , Murray Haseler , Sandy Gilmore , Angela Sanders , Adam Kerezsy , Max Tischler , Matthew Appleby

CHAPTER 16.

Part II; 13 Practical Challenges in Monitoring and Adapting Restoration Strategies and Actions

David Freudenberger

CHAPTER 17.

Part II; 14 Measuring and Reporting on Conservation Management Outcomes

Sarah Legge , Atticus Fleming

CHAPTER 18.

Part II; 15 Making Monitoring Work for Conservation: Lessons from the Nature Conservancy

Jensen R. Montambault , Craig Groves

CHAPTER 19.

Part II; 16 Biodiversity Monitoring from a Community Organisation Perspective

Doug Robinson , Lisa Smallbone , James O'Connor

CHAPTER 20.

Part III, Programs and the Lessons Learned from Them; 17 Biodiversity Monitoring in Canada's Yukon: The Community Ecological Monitoring Program

Charles J. Krebs

CHAPTER 21.

Part III; 18 Monitoring for Improved Biodiversity Conservation in Arid Australia

Chris R. Dickman , Glenda M. Wardle

CHAPTER 22.

Part III; 19 Exploiting the Back-Loop of the Adaptive Cycle: Lessons from the Black Saturday Fires

Philip Gibbons

CHAPTER 23.

Part III; 20 Waterbird Monitoring in Australia: Value, Challenges and Lessons Learnt After More Than 25 Years

Richard T. Kingsford , John L. Porter

CHAPTER 24.

Part III; 21 Biodiversity Monitoring in the Australian Rangelands

I. Andrew White , Jeff N. Foulkes , Ben D. Sparrow , Andrew J. Lowe

CHAPTER 25.

Part IV, Discussion; 22 Can We Make Biodiversity Monitoring Happen in Australia? Moving Beyond 'It's the Thought that Counts'

David Lindenmayer , Philip Gibbons

CHAPTER 26.

Appendix 1: The Workshop Design, Data Capture and Recording Process

CHAPTER 27.

Index

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