Environmental stratifications as the basis for national, European and global ecological monitoring

Autor: Marc J. Metzger, Rhg Jongman, João Gonçalves, Dick J. Brus, Antonio Trabucco, João P. Honrado, Rgh Bunce, Peter Carey, Robert J. Zomer
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2013
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Earth observation
Geospatial analysis
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
temporal trend
design
Alterra - Soil geography
General Decision Sciences
Climate change
earth
computer.software_genre
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Biodiversity and Policy
Alterra - Bodemgeografie
Environmental data
conterminous united-states
countryside survey
Landscape Centre
landscapes
Environmental protection
Sampling design
Environmental monitoring
Biodiversiteit en Beleid
Ecology
Evolution
Behavior and Systematics
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
biodiversity
Ecology
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Alterra - Centrum Landschap
15. Life on land
observing system
Stratified sampling
land
Geography
classification
13. Climate action
business
computer
Global biodiversity
Zdroj: Ecological Indicators, 33, 26-35
Ecological Indicators 33 (2013)
ISSN: 1470-160X
Popis: There is growing urgency for integration and coordination of global environmental and ecological data and indicators required to respond to the 'grand challenges' the planet is facing, including climate change and biodiversity decline. A consistent stratification of land into relatively homogenous strata provides a valuable spatial framework for comparison and analysis of ecological and environmental data across large heterogeneous areas. We discuss how statistical stratification can be used to design national, European and global biodiversity observation networks. The value of strategic ecological survey based on stratified samples is first illustrated using the United Kingdom (UK) Countryside Survey, a national monitoring programme that has measured ecological change in the UK countryside for the last 35 years. We then present a design for a European-wide sampling design for monitoring common habitats, and discuss ways of extending these approaches globally, supported by the recently developed Global Environmental Stratification. The latter provides a robust spatial analytical framework for the identification of gaps in current monitoring efforts, and systematic design of new complementary monitoring and research. Examples from Portugal and the transboundary Kailash Sacred Landscape in the Himalayas illustrate the potential use of this stratification, which has been identified as a focal geospatial dataset within the Group on Earth Observation Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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