Dr Levente Bodrossy1, Dr Jodie van de Kamp, Ms Sarah Stephenson, Dr John Keesing, Dr Andrew Bissett
1CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Australia
Future environmental monitoring projects will face the challenging task of robust impact attribution. Industrial activites are subject to increasing environmental scrutiny and their monitoring programs will need to be able to reliably differentiate ecosystem impact caused by global or broader regional change from direct impact by the industry.
Conventional thinking around environmental monitoring tends to focus on indicator species, often of either of economical or emotional value. However, approaches based on a small number of indicator species will not be able to reliably differentiate between global change, regional change and industrial impact.
The paper argues that in order to achieve a robust attribution, we need to cast the net wide and monitor at the broad ecosystem level. Using data from a monitoring project we will show how ecosystem level monitoring provides a very sensitive measure which is able to pick up small environmental changes while capable of robust impact attribution.
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