How the Surveillance Strategy can help you
- Funders or organisers of one or more biodiversity
surveillance schemes: The Strategy will help you to judge
the value of your investment. The overview of
schemes and analysis of need and coverage provides
a ready comparison of the contribution of schemes to the wider
framework of evidence generated on the different components of
biodiversity. The Strategy also provides practical tools
to help in reviewing your surveillance needs and deciding how to
address them.
- Participants in a surveillance scheme: The
overview
of schemes gives you some impression of the importance of
your work, and tells you about other initiatives you may want to
get involved in; the results from some of these schemes helps you
see how your work (and others) is used singly or with
other surveillance to give more evidence about drivers and
pressures on particular components of biodiversity; whilst the
basis of the Surveillance Strategy may help you understand why
schemes sometimes change.
- Designers or reviewers of surveillance
schemes: The Key Principles paper provides guidance on
efficient and effective surveillance design. The overview of
schemes and analysis of surveillance need and coverage will
help you identify real surveillance gaps to avoid duplication of
effort, and possibly allow savings through sharing of sampling
locations and analyses. The risk-based approach paper is likely to
be helpful when designing surveillance for rare or scarce species
or habitats. The Surveillance Hierarchy helps identify the most
appropriate scale for surveillance according to the nature of the
question, level of evidence required and scales and nature of
impacts. The way in which JNCC reviewed mammal surveillance will also help
in understanding how the surveillance strategy can be used in
reviewing a scheme.
- Policy maker needing information on the impacts of a
particular pressure on biodiversity: The analysis
of need and coverage allows you to see how your needs fit
with both the evidence needs for each of the main objectives and
assess current coverage whilst the overview of
schemes gives you further information on each of the main
surveillance and monitoring schemes.
If there isn’t a single scheme addressing what you’re
interested in, these documents can help you identify what mix of
existing schemes may help give you the evidence you need without
setting up a new scheme.