Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0347473

Funded Activity Summary

Practical, powerful and cost effective indicators of sustainable forest management for the conservation of biological diversity. Much debate about appropriate use of Australia's forests stems from uncertainty about the magnitude of impacts on abundances and distributions of forest-dependent species, a key indicator of sustainable management under the Montreal Process. An opportunity exists to develop new tools to substantially improve our ability to detect and assess change. This project will develop optimal monitoring design and analysis strategies for detecting population trends against a background of natural fluctuation and observation error. It will result in templates for coherent reporting on indicators at regional and national levels. It will exploit recent findings regarding observation error in surveys, advances in statistical control processes, simulation methods, and power analysis to develop a world-class species monitoring system.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-06-2003

End Date: 31-12-2006

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $280,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Stochastic Analysis And Modelling | Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Wildlife And Habitat Management |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Native forests | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified

Other Keywords

Conservation And Biodiversity | Environmental Science and Management | Environmental policy, legislation and standards not elsewhere classified | Living resources (flora and fauna) | Native forests | Stochastic Analysis And Modelling | Wildlife And Habitat Management

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