christian PERENNOU
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Comprehensive wetland monitoring - 2006/09/12 22:30
Does anyone know of any "model" wetland in the world which would have a
comprehensive, integrated monitoring system, of not only its natural heritage
but also human activities/pressures, land-use, etc...
... whose indicators/ parameters would not just be a haphazard collection of
"what has been collected so far - by chance - by various persons/ institutions",
but result from a real planning based on key management issues at that
wetland ;
... and which would not be purely research-oriented , but a real management
tool, used by local managers ?
Any reference would be most gratefully received !
NOTE : we have started to compile all the monitoring programmes existing for
a test wetland (the Camargue, S.France) and arrive at 1600+ parameters
monitored by over 40 organisations - 80% of them being Water quality data for
the delta's major river.
This is the "haphazard collection" mentionned above... but we want to move
beyond that !
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