Authors
Dirk S Schmeller, PIERRE‐YVES HENRY, Romain Julliard, Bernd Gruber, Jean Clobert, Frank Dziock, Szabolcs Lengyel, Piotr Nowicki, Eszter Deri, Eduardas Budrys, Tiiu Kull, Kadri Tali, Bianca Bauch, Josef Settele, Chris Van Swaay, Andrej Kobler, Valerija Babij, EVA Papastergiadou, Klaus Henle
Publication date
2009/4
Journal
Conservation biology
Volume
23
Issue
2
Pages
307-316
Publisher
Blackwell Publishing Inc
Description
Without robust and unbiased systems for monitoring, changes in natural systems will remain enigmatic for policy makers, leaving them without a clear idea of the consequences of any environmental policies they might adopt. Generally, biodiversity‐monitoring activities are not integrated or evaluated across any large geographic region. The EuMon project conducted the first large‐scale evaluation of monitoring practices in Europe through an on‐line questionnaire and is reporting on the results of this survey. In September 2007 the EuMon project had documented 395 monitoring schemes for species, which represents a total annual cost of about €4 million, involving more than 46,000 persons devoting over 148,000 person‐days/year to biodiversity‐monitoring activities. Here we focused on the analysis of variations of monitoring practices across a set of taxonomic groups (birds, amphibians and reptiles, mammals …
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