Publication year: 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-27288-7
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Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance.
Subject: Biomedical and Life Sciences, biodiversity observation systems, monitoring systems, biodiversity monitoring, GEO, remote sensing and modelling, Applied Ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Ecosystems Community and Environmental, Psychology