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Multi-taxa Surveys: Integrating Ecosystem Processes and User Demands

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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.

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Acknowledgments

The PPBio RAPELD system in Brazil is funded by the Ministry of Science and Technology and many different partners in each Regional Hub (see http://ppbio.inpa.gov.br/Eng/nregionais/). It has received much support from ICMBIO and IBAMA staff, and much of the coordination is undertaken through the National Institute for Science and Technology for Amazonian Biodiversity (INCT-CENBAM). The PPBio system in Australia is partially funded by the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), Brisbane City Council, SEQ Catchments, Condamine Alliance, Save the Bilby Fund and Griffith University. We thank Sarah Butler, Naomi Edwards, Clay Simpkins, and the many volunteers who measured trees at Karawatha.

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  1. Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazonia (INPA), Caixa Postal 478, Manaus, AM, 69011-970, Brazil

    William E. Magnusson, Fabricio Baccaro, Flavia Costa, Elizabeth Franklin, Albertina P. Lima, Regina Luizão, Flávia Pezzini, Juliana Schietti, José Julio Toledo & Ana Tourinho

  2. Environmental Futures Centre, School of Environment, Griffith University, Gold Coast Campus, Gold Coast, QLD, 4222, Australia

    Ben Lawson, J. Guy Castley & Jean-Marc Hero

  3. Centro de Pesquisa Agroflorestal de Roraima, Empresa Brasileira de Pesquisa Agropecuária (EMBRAPA), BR 174, Km 8, Distrito Industrial, Boa Vista, RR, 69301-970, Brazil

    Carolina Volkmer de Castilho

  4. EMBRAPA Monitoramento por Satélite, Av. Soldado Passarinho, 303, Campinas, SP, 13070-115, Brazil

    Debora P. Drucker

  5. Instituto de Saúde e Biotecnologia—ISB, Universidade Federal do Amazonas—UFAM, Campus Universitário do Médio Solimões, Estrada Coari-Mamiá, 305, Coari, AM, 69460-000, Brazil

    Fernando Mendonça

  6. Centro de Energia Nuclear na Agricultura, Universidade de São Paulo, Caixa Postal 96, Piracicaba, SP, 13416-000, Brazil

    Luciano M. Verdade

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Magnusson, W.E. et al. (2014). Multi-taxa Surveys: Integrating Ecosystem Processes and User Demands. In: Verdade, L., Lyra-Jorge, M., Piña, C. (eds) Applied Ecology and Human Dimensions in Biological Conservation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54751-5_12

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