1. Monitoring Matters: Examining the Potential of Locally-based Approaches

   • Finn Danielsen
   • Neil D. Burgess
   • Andrew Balmford

   Guest Editorial Pages: 2507 - 2542

2. Participatory Resource Monitoring as a Means for Promoting Social Change in Yunnan, China

   • Jeannette Van Rijsoort
   • Zhang Jinfeng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2543 - 2573

3. Monitoring Important Bird Areas in Africa: Towards a Sustainable and Scaleable System

   • Leon Bennun
   • Paul Matiku
   • Paul Buckley

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2575 - 2590

4. Projects Come, Projects Go: Lessons from Participatory Monitoring in Southern Laos

   • Michael Køie Poulsen
   • Khamphay Luanglath

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2591 - 2610

5. The Event Book System: A Community-based Natural Resource Monitoring System from Namibia

   • Greg Stuart-Hill
   • Richard Diggle
   • David Ward

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2611 - 2631

6. Does Monitoring Matter? A Quantitative Assessment of Management Decisions from Locally-based Monitoring of Protected Areas

   • Finn Danielsen
   • Arne E. Jensen
   • Martin Enghoff

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2633 - 2652

7. Community-based Monitoring of Natural Resource Use and Forest Quality in Montane Forests and Miombo Woodlands of Tanzania

   • Elmer Topp-Jørgensen
   • Michael K. Poulsen
   • John F. Massao

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2653 - 2677

8. Hunter Self-monitoring by the Isoseño-Guaraní in the Bolivian Chaco

   • Andrew J. Noss
   • Imke Oetting
   • Rosa Leny Cuéllar

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2679 - 2693

9. Community-based Monitoring of Fog Capture and Biodiversity at Loma Alta, Ecuador Enhance Social Capital and Institutional Cooperation

   • C. Dustin Becker
   • Ana Agreda
   • Pascual Torres

   OriginalPaper Pages: 2695 - 2707

10. How Much is Enough? Estimating the Minimum Sampling Required for Effective Monitoring of African Reserves

    • Justin S. Brashares
    • Moses K. Sam

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2709 - 2722

11. Ranger Based Monitoring in the Virunga–Bwindi Region of East-Central Africa: A Simple Data Collection Tool for Park Management

    • Maryke Gray
    • José Kalpers

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2723 - 2741

12. Cofán Indians’ Monitoring of Freshwater Turtles in Zábalo, Ecuador

    • Wendy R. Townsend
    • A. Randall Borman
    • Luis Mendua

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2743 - 2755

13. Participatory Ecological Monitoring of the Alaotra Wetlands in Madagascar

    • Herizo T. Andrianandrasana
    • Jonah Randriamahefasoa
    • Jonah H. Ratsimbazafy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2757 - 2774

14. Monitoring and Evaluation of Reef Protected Areas by Local Fishers in the Philippines: Tightening the Adaptive Management Cycle

    • Andre J. Uychiaoco
    • Hazel O. Arceo
    • Porfirio M. Aliño

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2775 - 2794

15. When Should Communities and Conservationists Monitor Exploited Resources?

    • Neal J. Hockley
    • Julia P.G. Jones
    • Jean A. Randriamboahary

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2795 - 2806

16. Wordbirds: Developing a Web-based Data Collection System for the Global Monitoring of Bird Distribution and Abundance

    • Rachel L. Roberts
    • Paul F. Donald
    • Ian J. Fisher

    OriginalPaper Pages: 2807 - 2820