Globally, natural resource management agencies are increasingly recognizing the importance of long-term ecological research (LTER) for monitoring biodiversity, ranging from relatively simple, known, local-level issues, such as managing tourist impacts in a conservation park, to more complex, multifaceted, pervasive, and far-reaching impacts, such as global climate change. Much previous literature has confused protocols for LTER projects to answer current research questions, with developing a system for long-term ecological monitoring. Contrary to perceptions that these LTER systems are not driven by well-defined objectives, we argue that LTER systems can be designed and implemented with the specific objective of providing a basis for both LTER projects and long-term monitoring. We present an overview of RAPELD, an LTER system developed in Brazil, with comparable infrastructure established in Australia and Nepal. The standardized biodiversity infrastructure and research platform provides a long-term basis for powerful multi-disciplinary, multi-scale analyses.
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Magnusson, W. E., Lawson, B., Baccaro, F., De Castilho, C. V., Guy Castley, J., Costa, F., … Hero, J. M. (2014). Multi-taxa surveys: Integrating ecosystem processes and user demands. In Applied Ecology and Human Dimensions in Biological Conservation (pp. 177–187). Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54751-5_12
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