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Essential principles to guide

monitoring of threatened biodiversity

Natasha M. Robinson, Sarah Legge, Benjamin C. Scheele, David

B. Lindenmayer, Darren M. Southwell, Brendan A. Wintle, Doug

Bickerton, Lyndon Brooks, Oberon Carter, Chris Dickman, Graeme

Gillespie, John Kanowski, Jessica Koleck, José J. Lahoz-Monfort,

Mark Lintermans, Helene Marsh, Rachel Paltridge, Jim Radford,

Anja Skroblin and Adrian Wayne

Summary

Monitoring of threatened species and ecological communities is currently
inadequate in Australia. Monitoring biodiversity generally presents many
challenges, but there are additional challenges associated with monitoring of
threatened biodiversity that stem from the difficulties of reliably monitoring rare
or rapidly declining species, or heavily fragmented and attenuated ecological
communities. For threatened biota, the integration of monitoring into legal,
management and policy settings is particularly crucial, as is good engagement with