Category: Monitoring and methods

Forests, Monitoring and methods, Practitioners, Research summaries, Restoration

Rewilding boosts Carbon Storage: How trees channel more Carbon into their roots

Author Nancy Burrell highlights the importance of accurate carbon accounting and describes her team’s latest research into the accuracy of current methods for measuring carbon in scrublands. Traditional methods like the i-Tree Eco model, effective in urban and forestry settings for estimating carbon storage in trees, are based on the growth patterns of plantation trees (trees grown in herbivore-free landscapes). But how does browsing at … Continue reading Rewilding boosts Carbon Storage: How trees channel more Carbon into their roots

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Human-wildlife interactions, Monitoring and methods, Pathogens and disease, Research summaries

How using multiple surveillance methods can help us track low prevalence disease

Abigail Feuka discusses how she, alongside colleagues, employed three surveillance methods to estimate the probability of presence and spread of a low-prevalence pathogen at a landscape scale under incomplete sampling coverage. Wildlife disease The COVID-19 pandemic has brought disease transmission from animals to humans into the public spotlight. But studying wildlife disease can be tricky, especially low prevalence diseases, where proportionally few individuals in a … Continue reading How using multiple surveillance methods can help us track low prevalence disease

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Forests, Freshwater, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries

Enhancing riparian protection: A call for clear objectives and measurable targets

Lenka Kuglerová, John S. Richardson, Timo Muotka, Darshanaa Chellaiah and Jussi Jyväsjärvi talk to us about their latest perspective article which suggests that locally developed and adjusted targets for riparian buffers must move away from vague objectives. A switch towards quantifiable goals that specify what is supposed to be achieved and protected will help to implement, monitor and evaluate targets. Small streams in a forestry … Continue reading Enhancing riparian protection: A call for clear objectives and measurable targets

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Agriculture, Monitoring and methods, Pollinators, Research summaries

SolBeePop: A model of solitary bee populations in agricultural landscapes

Amelie Schmolke discusses recent work, conducted alongside colleagues, which involved the development of a trait-based model for solitary bees. Schmolke et al were able to model management scenarios and possible outcomes for bee species with incomplete trait data. An introduction to bees When thinking about bees, people often think of the honey bee. But there are over 20,000 species of bees in the world, most … Continue reading SolBeePop: A model of solitary bee populations in agricultural landscapes

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Coastal and marine, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries

Long-term Monitoring: The key to unlocking effective Marine Protected Area Management?

Christopher Honeyman talks us through recently published work which compared three Marine Protected Area (MPA) monitoring techniques, along with colleagues. Interestingly, each technique was shown to survey distinct groundfish community assemblages with varying levels of species diversity and richness. Therefore, combining multiple techniques may better allow managers to create the most comprehensive, effective and inclusive MPA monitoring regimes. A global phenomenon In response to human-caused … Continue reading Long-term Monitoring: The key to unlocking effective Marine Protected Area Management?

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Invasive species, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries

Factoring in the dollars and cents of biological invasions

Ali Serhan Tarkan and Ismael Soto discuss recently published work, conducted with colleagues, surrounding novel biological invasions and their impacts. The study suggests that, to effectively manage invasions, decision-makers need solid information to base decisions on. Continue reading Factoring in the dollars and cents of biological invasions

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Invasive species, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries, Translation

Die Berücksichtigung der Kosten biologischer Invasionen in Risiko-Evaluationen

Ali Serhan Tarkan und Ismael Soto diskutieren ihr kürzlich veröffentlichte Arbeit über neuartige biologische Invasionen und ihre Auswirkungen. Die Studie legt nahe, dass Entscheidungsträger solide Informationen — inklusive hinsichtlich monetärer Kosten — benötigen, um Invasionen effektiv zu managen. Continue reading Die Berücksichtigung der Kosten biologischer Invasionen in Risiko-Evaluationen

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Invasive species, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries, Translation

Calculando los costes económicos de las invasiones biológicas

Ali Serhan Tarkan e Ismael Soto discuten en su trabajo recientemente publicado, realizado con un equipo interdisciplinario, que trata sobre las nuevas invasiones biológicas y sus impactos. El estudio sugiere que, para gestionar eficazmente las invasiones, los gestores de decisiones necesitan información sólida en la cual basar sus decisiones. Continue reading Calculando los costes económicos de las invasiones biológicas

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Invasive species, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries, Translation

Dolar ve sent olarak biyolojik istilalar

Ali Serhan Tarkan ve Ismael Soto, biyolojik istilalar ve etkileri hakkında meslektaşlarıyla birlikte yürüttükleri çalışmayı tartışıyorlar. Çalışma, istilaları etkili bir şekilde yönetmek için karar verici mekanizmaların kararlarını kuvvetlendirecek güvenilir bilgilere ihtiyaç olduğunu ortaya koymaktadır. Continue reading Dolar ve sent olarak biyolojik istilalar

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Coastal and marine, Editor's Choice, Monitoring and methods, Research summaries

Editor’s Choice 60:10 Can management measures be used to reduce the impact of extreme events in the early life of fish?

Author Lucie Buttay summarises Journal of Applied Ecology’s October’s Editor’s Choice research article. Conducted with colleagues, this study used a life cycle model to simulate ‘what if’ scenarios around Northeast Arctic cod eggs and larvae. Extreme climatic events, (e.g. heat waves and storms) are becoming more frequent and intense, and on top of that, the ever-growing development of human activities at sea, entails an increasing … Continue reading Editor’s Choice 60:10 Can management measures be used to reduce the impact of extreme events in the early life of fish?

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