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Abstract
Monitoring programs designed to track ecosystem changes in response to both stressors and disturbances use repeated observations of ecosystem attributes. Such programs can increase our understanding of how interactions among resilience to disturbance, resistance to invasive species, and “change agents” including management actions influence resource conditions (or status) and trends and outcomes of conservation and restoration actions. This type of monitoring information provides the basis for adaptive management. The overarching goal of an integrated monitoring and adaptive management program is to reduce the uncertainty in the effectiveness of management actions over time by improving management objectives and strategies to increase the effectiveness of those actions.
Parent Publication
Keywords
sagebrush habitat,
Greater sage-grouse,
resilience,
resistance,
conservation,
restoration,
monitoring,
adaptive management,
climate adaptation,
wildfire,
nonnative invasive plants,
National Seed Strategy,
livestock grazing,
wild horses and burros
Citation
Wiechman, Lief A.; Pyke, David A.; Crist, Michele R.; Munson, Seth M.; Brooks, Matthew L.; Chambers, Jeanne C.; Rowland, Mary M.; Kachergis, Emily J.; Davidson, Zoe. 2019. Adaptive management and monitoring [Chapter 2]. In: Crist, Michele R.; Chambers, Jeanne C.; Phillips, Susan L.; Prentice, Karen L.; Wiechman, Lief A., eds. Science framework for conservation and restoration of the sagebrush biome: Linking the Department of the Interior’s Integrated Rangeland Fire Management Strategy to long-term strategic conservation actions. Part 2. Management applications. Gen. Tech. Rep. RMRS-GTR-389. Fort Collins, CO: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station. p. 19-36.
