Quantifying, Monitoring, and Managing Biodiversity across Multiple Spatial Scales

摘要: This dissertation aims to investigate how science can effectively inform management and policy decisions, leading to positive conservation outcomes for vulnerable wildlife communities. Successful conservation requires the incorporation of ecological uncertainty and socio-ecological complexity into the decision-making process. To navigate the uncertainty and complexity pertinent to landscape conservation, I demonstrate a multi-scaled approach to quantify, monitor, and manage amphibians in a case study of a regional network of national parks. In Chapter 1, I quantify biodiversity across multiple spatial scales by fitting a multi-region community occupancy model to regional amphibian monitoring data to elucidate the drivers and threats (s) to biodiversity and the relevant scale (s) to target management. In Chapter 2, I explore the efficacy of different monitoring programs and identify strategies to monitor biodiversity …