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dc.contributor.authorBuckley, Ralf
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Jessica
dc.contributor.authorCarmody, Joanne
dc.contributor.authorKing, Narelle
dc.contributor.editorAlan T Bull (Editor-in-Chief)
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T15:13:27Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T15:13:27Z
dc.date.issued2008
dc.date.modified2010-08-30T07:01:12Z
dc.identifier.issn0960-3115
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10531-008-9448-7
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/22535
dc.description.abstractProtected areas are key to conservation of biodiversity, and Australia is one of the world's megadiverse regions. Monitoring programs provide the information to assess the state of conservation resources, the severity of threats and the success of management responses. Here we compare the management priorities, monitoring priorities and actual monitoring practices of protected area management agencies in Australia, using four sets of data at continental scale and five at a more restricted regional scale. We track changes over a period of several years and focus at successively finer levels of detail. At both continental and regional scales, most management plans emphasise fire, invasive species and visitor management; and most monitoring programmes refer to visitor numbers and impacts as well as species and ecosystems. There is only a weak match, however, between reported management priorities and actual monitoring programmes; and the effectiveness of management responses is rarely monitored. The level of detail in visitor monitor programmes varies considerably: most parks count visitors, but few know what those visitors do. Threats from fire and invasive species receive more attention that those from recreation. At regional scale, the proportion of parks with defined monitoring programmes and priorities increased significantly from 2003/2004 to 2006/2007. Whilst only a proportion of protected areas monitor endangered species populations, for those that do this is the parameter reported in most detail, with many parks reporting single records of single individuals. Some parks also maintain anecdotal records of rare species outside routine monitoring programs.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Netherlands
dc.publisher.placeNetherlands
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom3589
dc.relation.ispartofpageto3606
dc.relation.ispartofjournalBiodiversity and Conservation
dc.relation.ispartofvolume17
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchEcology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3103
dc.titleMonitoring for management of conservation and recreation in Australian protected areas
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Sciences, Griffith School of Environment
gro.date.issued2008
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorBuckley, Ralf


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