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Monitoring for Biodiversity, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services - Development of a Monitoring Action Plan 2016

Abstract

The “Monitoring Action Plan” forms part of Living With Environmental Change's Ecosystem Task Force Roadmap for Realising the Value of Nature (2014).

Summary

A key part of the Roadmap is the production of a Monitoring Action Plan (MAP). This aims to improve the supply of reliable and useful data to support the application of the Ecosystem Approach in decision-making (“monitoring” is usually defined as repeated observations over time. This plan also includes one-off or irregularly repeated surveys that provide baseline measures of the “state” of ecosystems). The MAP covers the evidence needed to assess ecosystems; including their state, changes in state, the drivers of ecosystem change, the benefits flowing from them and, very briefly, the ways in which benefits are valued.

Resource type Publication

Topic category Environment

Reference date 2016·11·01

Citation
Parr, T. & Smith, M., (2016), Monitoring for Biodiversity, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Services: Development of a Monitoring Action Plan, JNCC Report No. 583, JNCC, Peterborough, ISSN 0963-8091.

Lineage
This document was produced for the Living with Environmental Change (LWEC) Ecosystem Task Force (ETF) and is a ‘Monitoring Action Plan’ (MAP) for Biodiversity, Natural Capital and Ecosystem Service.

Responsible organisation
Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC publisher

Limitations on public access No limitations

Use constraints Available under the Open Government Licence 3.0

Metadata date 2019·07·16

Metadata point of contact
Digital and Data Solutions, JNCC

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