| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Introduction: making monitoring happen -- and then delivering on Australia's Biodiversity Conservation Strategy; National and international perspectives; 1Making monitoring up-front and centre in Australian biodiversity conservation; 2Accountability: we're an indulgent and marginal profession if we can't measure the effectiveness of investment in environmental management; 3Ecoinformatics solutions to support monitoring for improved biodiversity conservation; 4Monitoring Australian birds to meet international obligations |
| Summary |
Ecological and biodiversity-based monitoring has been marked by an appalling lack of effectiveness and lack of success in Australia for more than 40 years, despite the billions of dollars that are invested in biodiversity conservation annually. What can be done to rectify this situation?This book tackles many aspects of the problem of biodiversity monitoring. It arose from a major workshop held at The Australian National University in February 2011, attended by leaders in the science, policy-making and management arenas of biodiversity conservation. The diversity of participants was deliberate |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Biodiversity -- Monitoring -- Australia
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NATURE -- Animals -- Wildlife.
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SCIENCE -- Life Sciences -- Biological Diversity.
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Biodiversity -- Monitoring
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Australia
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lindenmayer, David
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Gibbons, Philip
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| ISBN |
9780643103580 |
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0643103589 |
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9780643103597 |
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0643103597 |
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1280487348 |
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9781280487347 |
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