SM2+在两栖动物保护中的应用
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：
随着城市采取保护、维护和恢复城市生物多样性的任务，对城市生态学研究的需求也在增长。关于城市化影响的物种特定信息往往是设计和实施有效生物多样性战略的限制因素。在郊区和远郊地区，两栖动物在人与环境之间发挥着重要的社会生态作用，对生态系统健康做出了贡献。由于双相生活方式，两栖动物容易受到水生和陆地环境的威胁和不平衡，这使它们成为当地环境健康的极好指标。我们制定了一项公民科学计划，对加拿大阿尔伯塔省一个大城市的两栖动物进行系统监测，该城市90%的定居前湿地已被移除，人类活动继续退化、改变和/或破坏剩余的两栖动物栖息地。我们展示了在生物多样性监测中使用公开收集的数据的成功和挑战。通过两栖动物监测，我们展示了公民科学计划如何提高生态知识，让公众参与城市生物多样性的监测，以及如何改进城市的生物多样性设计和规划。我们概述了为公民科学项目设计提供信息的经验教训，包括决策者早期参与的重要性、质量控制评估、评估数据和公众参与目标项目设计中的紧张局势，以及将保护信息纳入规划。
关键词：SM2+，声学记录器，野生动物监测，动物声学记录，Wildlife Acoustics声学记录器，Song Meter 2+
