Maas-Hebner Kathleen G, Harte Michael J, Molina Nancy, Hughes Robert M, Schreck Carl, Yeakley J Alan
Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA,
Environ Monit Assess. 2015 May;187(5):278. doi: 10.1007/s10661-015-4504-8. Epub 2015 Apr 21.
Increasingly, natural resource management agencies and nongovernmental organizations are sharing monitoring data across geographic and jurisdictional boundaries. Doing so improves their abilities to assess local-, regional-, and landscape-level environmental conditions, particularly status and trends, and to improve their ability to make short- and long-term management decisions. Status monitoring assesses the current condition of a population or environmental condition across an area. Monitoring for trends aims at monitoring changes in populations or environmental condition through time. We wrote this paper to inform agency and nongovernmental organization managers, analysts, and consultants regarding the kinds of environmental data that can be combined with suitable techniques and statistically aggregated for new assessments. By doing so, they can increase the (1) use of available data and (2) the validity and reliability of the assessments. Increased awareness of the difficulties inherent in combining and aggregating data for local- and regional-level analyses can increase the likelihood that future monitoring efforts will be modified and/or planned to accommodate data from multiple sources.
自然资源管理机构和非政府组织越来越多地跨越地理和管辖边界共享监测数据。这样做提高了它们评估地方、区域和景观层面环境状况的能力，特别是现状和趋势，并提高了它们做出短期和长期管理决策的能力。现状监测评估一个地区内种群的当前状况或环境状况。趋势监测旨在监测种群或环境状况随时间的变化。我们撰写本文是为了告知机构和非政府组织的管理人员、分析师和顾问有关那些可以与合适技术相结合并进行统计汇总以进行新评估的环境数据类型。通过这样做，他们可以提高（1）可用数据的利用率以及（2）评估的有效性和可靠性。对在地方和区域层面分析中合并和汇总数据所固有的困难有更多认识，可以增加未来监测工作将被修改和/或规划以适应来自多个来源的数据的可能性。
