- Title
- Managing uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions
- Creator
- Smith, Annabel; Kujala, Heini; Lahoz-Monfort, José; Guja, Lydia; Barton, Philip
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/183065
- Identifier
- vital:16248
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1111/conl.12620
- Identifier
- ISBN:1755-263X (ISSN)
- Abstract
- Species’ movements affect their response to environmental change but movement knowledge is often highly uncertain. We now have well-established methods to inte-grate movement knowledge into conservation practice but still lack a framework to deal with uncertainty in movement knowledge for environmental decisions. We provide a framework that distinguishes two dimensions of species’ movement that are heavily influenced by uncertainty: knowledge about movement and relevance of movement to environmental decisions. Management decisions can be informed by their position in this knowledge-relevance space. We then outline a framework to support decisions around (1) increasing understanding of the relevance of movement knowledge, (2) increasing robustness of decisions to uncertainties and (3) improving knowledge on species’ movement. Our decision-support framework provides guid-ance for managing movement-related uncertainty in systematic conservation plan-ning, agri-environment schemes, habitat restoration and international biodiversity policy. It caters to different resource levels (time and funding) so that species’ movement knowledge can be more effectively integrated into environmental decisions. © 2018 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons Inc
- Relation
- Conservation Letters Vol. 12, no. 3 (2019), p.
- Rights
- All metadata describing materials held in, or linked to, the repository is freely available under a CC0 licence
- Rights
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Rights
- Copyright © 2018 The Authors
- Rights
- Open Access
- Subject
- MD Multidisciplinary; Biodiversity conservation; Connectivity; Corridors; Decision theory; Dispersal; Environmental policy; Movement ecology; Science-policy interface
- Full Text
- Reviewed
- Funder
- Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, Australian Research Council; Adelina and Massimo Della Pergola Chair of Life Sci-ences; Australian Government National Environmental Research Program Environmental Decisions Hub; Minerva Center for Movement Ecology; Australian Research Council Discovery Project, Grant/Award Number: DP110101480; Science Foundation Ireland, Grant/Award Number: 15/ERCD/2803Acknowledgments This research was supported by the Australian Government's National Environmental Research Program Environmental Decisions Hub, the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions and emanated from a Science Foundation Ireland grant to YBM (SFI Grant Number 15/ERCD/2803). Randal Storey from the Australian Government Department of Environment and Energy provided valuable input into the ideas. Ruidong Wu and an anonymous reviewer provided valuable comments on the manuscript. RN acknowledges support of an International Collabora-tion Award from the Australian Research Council Discovery project grant (DP110101480), the Adelina and Massimo Della Pergola Chair of Life Sciences, and the Minerva Center for Movement Ecology. **Please note that there are multiple authors for this article therefore only the name of the first 5 including Federation University Australia affiliate “Philip Barton” is provided in this record**
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