Obstacles to gathering conservation evidence from the monitoring of nature reserves: a spatial solution?

Meakin, K and O'Connell, Mark ORCID: 0000-0003-3402-8880 (2018) Obstacles to gathering conservation evidence from the monitoring of nature reserves: a spatial solution? Ecological Informatics, 47. pp. 14-16. doi:10.1016/j.ecoinf.2017.10.013

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Abstract

This paper identifies a range of obstacles to gathering evidence from the monitoring of nature reserves that can subsequently be used to evaluate and guide future management. The key obstacles are: (1) monitoring is difficult to fund, (2) many conservation NGOs do not have a tradition of being science-led organisations, (3) dominance of descriptive and rapid assessment approaches to reserve monitoring, (4) lack of analytical capacity, and (5) linking data to outputs and outcomes. A spatial grid-mapping solution is proposed and described in a case study of heathland restoration.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Nature reserves; Conservation evidence
Subjects:	G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Education and Science
Research Priority Areas:	Place, Environment and Community
Depositing User:	Mark O'Connell
Date Deposited:	09 Nov 2017 16:13
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 08:58
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/5085

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