Optimal Monitoring Strategy to Detect Rule-breaking: A Power and Simulation Approach Parameterised with Field Data from Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone

Optimal Monitoring Strategy to Detect Rule-breaking: A Power and Simulation Approach Parameterised with Field Data from Gola Rainforest National Park, Sierra Leone

Protected area designation aims to protect forests from illegal activities such as hunting. However, the effectiveness of protection and how this changes over time in response to protection measures is difficult to assess, including the design of monitoring programmes able to detect changes. We pres...

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Main Authors: Sorrel Jones, Malcolm D Burgess, Frazer Sinclair, Jeremy Lindsell, Juliet Vickery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2017-01-01
Series:Conservation & Society
Subjects:
Bushmeat hunting
protected area
power analysis
monitoring
rSPACE
rule-breaking
simulation
tropical forest
Online Access:http://www.conservationandsociety.org/article.asp?issn=0972-4923;year=2017;volume=15;issue=3;spage=334;epage=343;aulast=Jones

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