Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gaps Between Global Commitment and Local Action

Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv 1. Biodiversity Monitoring and Conservation: Bridging the Gaps Between Global Commitment and Local Action 1 Ben Collen, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jonathan E.M. Baillie and SarahM. Durant Part I Species-Based Indicators of Biodiversity Change 17 2. Tracking Change in National-Level Conservation Status: National Red Lists 19 Ben Collen, Janine Griffiths, Yolan Friedmann, Jon Paul Rodriguez, Franklin Rojas-Suarez and Jonathan E.M. Baillie 3. TheWildlife Picture Index: A Biodiversity Indicator for Top Trophic Levels 45 Timothy G. O'Brien and Margaret F. Kinnaird 4. Tracking Change in Abundance: The Living Planet Index 71 Ben Collen, Louise McRae, Jonathan Loh, Stefanie Deinet, Adriana De Palma, Robyn Manley and Jonathan E.M. Baillie Part II Indicators of the Pressures on Biodiversity 95 5. Satellite Data-Based Indices to Monitor Land Use and Habitat Changes 97 Nathalie Pettorelli 6. Indicators of Climate Change Impacts on Biodiversity 120 Wendy B. Foden, Georgina M. Mace and Stuart H.M. Butchart 7. Monitoring Trends in Biological Invasion, its Impact andPolicyResponses 138 Piero Genovesi, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Melodie A. McGeoch and David B. Roy 8. Exploitation Indices: Developing Global and National Metrics of Wildlife Use and Trade 159 Rosamunde E.A. Almond, Stuart H.M. Butchart, Thomasina E.E. Oldfield, Louise McRae and Steven de Bie 9. Personalized Measures of Consumption and Development in the Context of Biodiversity Conservation: Connecting the Ecological Footprint Calculation with the Human Footprint Map 189 Eric W. Sanderson Part III The Next Generation of Biodiversity Indicators 211 10. Indicator Bats Program: A System for the Global Acoustic Monitoring of Bats 213 Kate E. Jones, Jon A. Russ, Andriy-Taras Bashta, Zoltan Bilhari, Colin Catto, Istvan Csosz, Alexander Gorbachev, Peter Gyorfi, Alice Hughes, Igor Ivashkiv, Natalia Koryagina, Aniko Kurali, Steve Langton, Alanna Collen, Georgiana Margiean, Ivan Pandourski, Stuart Parsons, Igor Prokofev, Abigel Szodoray-Paradi, Farkas Szodoray-Paradi, Elena Tilova, Charlotte L. Walters, Aidan Weatherill and Oleg Zavarzin 11. Occupancy Methods for Conservation Management 248 Darryl I. MacKenzie and James T. Reardon 12. Monitoring and Evaluating the Socioeconomic Impacts of Conservation Projects on Local Communities 265 Katherine Homewood 13. Science to Policy Linkages for the Post-2010 Biodiversity Targets 291 Georgina M. Mace, Charles Perrings, Philippe Le Prestre, Wolfgang Cramer, Sandra Diaz, Anne Larigauderie, Robert J. Scholes and Harold A. Mooney Part IV Biodiversity Monitoring in Practice 311 14. Building Sustainable National Monitoring Networks 313 Sarah M. Durant 15. Monitoring in the Real World 335 Julia P.G. Jones 16. Monitoring in UNDP-GEF Biodiversity Projects: Balancing Conservation Priorities, Financial Realities, and Scientific Rigour 348 Sultana Bashir 17. Scaling Up or Down? LinkingGlobal and National Biodiversity Indicators and Reporting 402 Philip Bubb 18. Conserving Biodiversity in a Target-Driven World 421 Simon N. Stuart and Ben Collen Index 439

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