Katherine Cure, Diego R Barneche, Martial Depczynski, Rebecca Fisher, David J Warne, James McGree, Jim Underwood, Frank Weisenberger, Elizabeth Evans-Illidge, Brendan Ford, Daniel Oades, Azton Howard, Phillip McCarthy, Damon Pyke, Zac Edgar, Rodney Maher, Trevor Sampi, Kevin Dougal, Bardi Jawi Traditional Owners
Partnerships in marine monitoring combining Traditional Ecological Knowledge and western science are developing globally to improve our understanding of temporal changes in ecological communities that better inform coastal management practices. A fuller communication between scientists and Indigenous partners about the limitations of monitoring results to identify change is essential to the impact of monitoring datasets on decision-making. Here we present a 5-year co-developed case study from a fish monitoring partnership in northwest Australia showing how uncertainty estimated by Bayesian models can be incorporated into monitoring management indicators...
February 14, 2024: Ambio