Elsevier

Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Volume 16, Issue 4, October–December 2018, Pages 177-185
Perspectives in Ecology and Conservation

Essays and Perspectives
A network of monitoring networks for evaluating biodiversity conservation effectiveness in Brazilian protected areas

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Highlights

  • Monitoring is a challenge for assessing targets for biodiversity agendas.

  • Biomonitoring systems can be linked in a network structure.

  • Biomonitoring initiatives in Brazil usually lack a clear conceptual framework.

  • The Network of Networks approach can promote the articulation of biomonitoring iniciatives.

Abstract

The necessity to create national to global-scale biodiversity monitoring systems as part of assessing progress toward biodiversity agendas presents a challenge for signatory countries. This is a brief review of ongoing Brazilian national initiatives that would allow the construction of a general biomonitoring network scheme in protected areas; with additional focus on linking independent monitoring schemes. We discuss some key aspects needed to include monitoring schemes under a single framework that will lead to better evaluation of pressure–state–response indicators for managing biodiversity at several scales; and we point out the potential of embracing citizen science and participatory monitoring to quantify some aspects within those schemes.

Keywords

Biomonitoring
Conservation biology
Environmental organizations
Fuzzy logic

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