A novel and cost-effective monitoring approach for outcomes in an Australian biodiversity conservation incentive program.

Autor: David B Lindenmayer, Charles Zammit, Simon J Attwood, Emma Burns, Claire L Shepherd, Geoff Kay, Jeff Wood
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2012
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Zdroj: PLoS ONE, Vol 7, Iss 12, p e50872 (2012)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0050872
Popis: We report on the design and implementation of ecological monitoring for an Australian biodiversity conservation incentive scheme - the Environmental Stewardship Program. The Program uses competitive auctions to contract individual land managers for up to 15 years to conserve matters of National Environmental Significance (with an initial priority on nationally threatened ecological communities). The ecological monitoring was explicitly aligned with the Program's policy objective and desired outcomes and was applied to the Program's initial Project which targeted the critically endangered White Box-Yellow Box-Blakely's Red Gum Grassy Woodland and Derived Native Grassland ecological community in south eastern Australia. These woodlands have been reduced to
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