SM2+在兩棲動物保護中的應用
Abstract
As cities adopt mandates to protect, maintain and restore urban biodiversity, the need for urban ecology studies grows. Species-specific information on the effects of urbanization is often a limiting factor in designing and implementing effective biodiversity strategies. In suburban and exurban areas, amphibians play an important social-ecological role between people and their envi ronment and contribute to ecosystem health. Amphibians are vulnerable to threats and imbalances in the aquatic and terrestrial environment due to a biphasic lifestyle, making them excellent indicators of local environmental health. We developed a citizen science program to systematically monitor amphibians in a large city in Alberta, Canada, where 90% of pre-settlement wetlands have been removed and human activities continue to degrade, alter, and/or fragment remaining amphibian habitats. We demonstrate successes and challenges of using publicly collected data in biodiversity monitoring. Through amphibian monitoring, we show how a citizen science program improved ecological knowledge, engaged the public in urban biodiversity monitoring and improved urban design and planning for biodiversity. We outline lessons learned to inform citizen science program design, including the importance of early engagement of decision makers, quality control assessment, assessing tensions in program design for data and public engagement goals, and incorporating conservation messaging into programming.
摘要：
隨著城市采取保護、維護和恢復城市生物多樣性的任務，對城市生態學研究的需求也在增長。關于城市化影響的物種特定信息往往是設計和實施有效生物多樣性戰略的限制因素。在郊區和遠郊地區，兩棲動物在人與環境之間發揮著重要的社會生態作用，對生態系統健康做出了貢獻。由于雙相生活方式，兩棲動物容易受到水生和陸地環境的威脅和不平衡，這使它們成為當地環境健康的極好指標。我們制定了一項公民科學計劃，對加拿大阿爾伯塔省一個大城市的兩棲動物進行系統監測，該城市90%的定居前濕地已被移除，人類活動繼續退化、改變和/或破壞剩余的兩棲動物棲息地。我們展示了在生物多樣性監測中使用公開收集的數據的成功和挑戰。通過兩棲動物監測，我們展示了公民科學計劃如何提高生態知識，讓公眾參與城市生物多樣性的監測，以及如何改進城市的生物多樣性設計和規劃。我們概述了為公民科學項目設計提供信息的經驗教訓，包括決策者早期參與的重要性、質量控制評估、評估數據和公眾參與目標項目設計中的緊張局勢，以及將保護信息納入規劃。
關鍵詞：SM2+，聲學記錄器，野生動物監測，動物聲學記錄，Wildlife Acoustics聲學記錄器，Song Meter 2+
