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Monitoring is an essential conservation tool that is widely used to identify, prioritize and survey species of concern. Effective conservation actions can only be made when the suitable information is available. However, resources for monitoring will always be limited. Therefore our research focuses on developing theories and tools that deliver cost-efficient monitoring, targeted at measuring appropriate indicators for making good decisions. Our research on optimal monitoring includes monitoring of threatened species, harvested species and invasive species. |
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Cindy Hauser, Liana Joseph, Eve McDonald-Madden, Hugh Possingham, |
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Helen Regan, San Diego State, Mick McCarthy, ARCUE , Brendan Wintle, Environmental Science, University of Melbourne, Tracey Regan, NOAA and Niclas Jonzen, University of Lund, Sweden
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Hauser, C. E. Pople, A. R. and H. P. Possingham (in press) Should managed populations be monitored every year? Ecological Applications. in press. pdf Joseph, L. N., S. A. Field, C. V. Wilcox, and H. P. Possingham ( in press) Presence-absence versus abundance data for monitoring threatened species. Conservation Biology. In press pdfField, S. A., A. J. Tyre and H. P. Possingham ( 2005) Optimizing allocation of monitoring effort under economic and observational constraints. Journal of Wildlife Management 69:473-482 pdfField, S. A., A. J. Tyre, K. H. Thorn, P. J. O'Connor and H. P. Possingham ( 2005) Improving the efficience of wildlife monitoring by estimating detectability: a case study of foxes (Vulpes vulpes) on the Eyre Peninsula, South Australia. Wildlife Research 32:253-258 pdfGerber, L. R., M. Beger, M. A. McCarthy and H. P. Possingham ( 2005) A theory for optimal monitoring of marine reserves. Ecology Letters 8:829-837 pdfJonzen, N., J. R. Rhodes and H. P. Possingham ( 2005) Trend detection in source-sink systems: When should sink habitats be monitored. Ecological Applications 15:326-334 pdfPossingham, H. P. (2005) Clear view needed in environmental monitoring. Australasian Science Sept:43
Field, S. A., A. J. Tyre, N. Jonzen, J. R. Rhodes and H. P. Possingham ( 2004) Minimizing the cost of environmental management decisions by optimizing statistical thresholds. Ecology Letters 7:669-675 pdfPossingham, H. P. ( 2001) The Business of Biodiversity. Page 44. Australian Conservation Foundation, Melbourne pdfPossingham, H. P. ( 2000) Is environmental research a waste of time? Ecological Management and Restoration 1:81-82 pdf |
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