Multi-taxa surveys: integrating ecosystem processes and user demands.

• Autor(a) principal: MAGNUSSON, W. E.
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Outros Autores: LAWSON, B., BACCARO, F., CASTILHO, C. V. de, CASTLEY, J. G., COSTA, F., DRUCKER, D. P., FRANKLIN, E., LIMA, A. P., LUIZÃO, R., MENDONÇA, F., PEZZINI, F., SCHIETTI, J., TOLEDO, J. J., TOURINHO, A., VERDADE, L. M., HERO, J-M.
• Tipo de documento: Capítulo de livro
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da EMBRAPA (Repository Open Access to Scientific Information from EMBRAPA - Alice)
• Texto Completo: http://www.alice.cnptia.embrapa.br/alice/handle/doc/993970
• topic: Monitoring biodiversity; Natural resources

Globally, natural resource management agencies are increasingly recognizing the importance of long-term ecological research (LTER) for monitoring biodiversity, ranging from relatively simple, known, local-level issues, such as managing tourist impacts in a conservation park, to more complex, multifaceted, pervasive, and far-reaching impacts, such as global climate change. Much previous literature has confused protocols for LTER projects to answer current research questions, with developing a system for long-term ecological monitoring. Contrary to perceptions that these LTER systems are not driven by well-defined objectives, we argue that LTER systems can be designed and implemented with the specific objective of providing a basis for both LTER projects and long-term monitoring. We present an overview of RAPELD, an LTER system developed in Brazil, with comparable infrastructure established in Australia and Nepal. The standardized biodiversity infrastructure and research platform provides a long-term basis for powerful multi-disciplinary, multi-scale analyses.