U.S. Geological Survey Fort Collins Science Center, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
Bat Conservation International, Austin, TX, USA.
Ambio. 2021 Apr;50(4):901-913. doi: 10.1007/s13280-020-01411-y. Epub 2021 Jan 17.
Collaborative monitoring over broad scales and levels of ecological organization can inform conservation efforts necessary to address the contemporary biodiversity crisis. An important challenge to collaborative monitoring is motivating local engagement with enough buy-in from stakeholders while providing adequate top-down direction for scientific rigor, quality control, and coordination. Collaborative monitoring must reconcile this inherent tension between top-down control and bottom-up engagement. Highly mobile and cryptic taxa, such as bats, present a particularly acute challenge. Given their scale of movement, complex life histories, and rapidly expanding threats, understanding population trends of bats requires coordinated broad-scale collaborative monitoring. The North American Bat Monitoring Program (NABat) reconciles top-down, bottom-up tension with a hierarchical master sample survey design, integrated data analysis, dynamic data curation, regional monitoring hubs, and knowledge delivery through web-based infrastructure. NABat supports collaborative monitoring across spatial and organizational scales and the full annual lifecycle of bats.
广泛的生态组织层次和规模上的协作监测可以为应对当代生物多样性危机所需的保护工作提供信息。协作监测面临的一个重要挑战是，在为科学严谨性、质量控制和协调提供足够的自上而下的指导的同时，激发当地的参与度并获得利益相关者的充分认可。协作监测必须调和这种自上而下的控制和自下而上的参与之间固有的紧张关系。高度流动和隐蔽的类群，如蝙蝠，构成了一个特别严峻的挑战。鉴于它们的活动范围、复杂的生活史和迅速扩大的威胁，了解蝙蝠的种群趋势需要协调广泛的大规模协作监测。北美蝙蝠监测计划（NABat）通过层次主样本调查设计、综合数据分析、动态数据管理、区域监测中心以及基于网络的基础设施进行知识传递，调和了自上而下和自下而上的紧张关系。NABat 支持跨空间和组织规模以及蝙蝠全年生命周期的协作监测。
