UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom.
Department of Agriculture, Ministry of Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, Lefkosia, Cyprus.
PLoS One. 2022 Mar 24;17(3):e0256777. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0256777. eCollection 2022.
Biodiversity monitoring plays an essential role in tracking changes in ecosystems, species distributions and abundances across the globe. Data collected through both structured and unstructured biodiversity recording can inform conservation measures designed to reduce, prevent, and reverse declines in valued biodiversity of many types. However, given that resources for biodiversity monitoring are limited, it is important that funding bodies prioritise investments relative to the requirements in any given region. We addressed this prioritisation requirement for a biodiverse Mediterranean island (Cyprus) using a three-stage process of expert-elicitation. This resulted in a structured list of twenty biodiversity monitoring needs; specifically, a hierarchy of three groups of these needs was created using a consensus approach. The most highly prioritised biodiversity monitoring needs were those related to the development of robust survey methodologies, and those ensuring that sufficiently skilled citizens are available to contribute. We discuss ways that the results of our expert-elicitation process could be used to support current and future biodiversity monitoring in Cyprus.
生物多样性监测在跟踪全球生态系统、物种分布和丰度的变化方面发挥着重要作用。通过结构化和非结构化的生物多样性记录收集的数据，可以为旨在减少、预防和扭转多种有价值的生物多样性下降的保护措施提供信息。然而，由于生物多样性监测资源有限，重要的是资金机构根据特定地区的要求对投资进行优先排序。我们使用专家征询的三个阶段的过程来解决这个优先排序的要求，针对一个生物多样性丰富的地中海岛屿（塞浦路斯）。这导致了一份结构化的二十项生物多样性监测需求清单；具体来说，使用共识方法创建了这些需求的三个分组的层次结构。最优先的生物多样性监测需求是那些与开发强大的调查方法以及确保有足够技能的公民能够参与相关的需求。我们讨论了我们的专家征询过程的结果如何用于支持塞浦路斯当前和未来的生物多样性监测。
