02192naa a2200373 a 450000100080000000500110000800800410001902000220006002400380008210000210012024500970014126000090023830000160024752010790026365000220134265300280136470000150139270000160140770000230142370000190144670000140146570000190147970000170149870000160151570000160153170000180154770000160156570000170158170000180159870000170161670000190163370000150165277301510166719939702017-06-01       2014    bl uuuu     u00u1 u    #d  a978-3-642-54750-87 a10.1007/978-3-642-54751-5_122DOI1 aMAGNUSSON, W. E.  aMulti-taxa surveysbintegrating ecosystem processes and user demands.h[electronic resource]  c2014  ap. 177-187.  aGlobally, 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.  aNatural resources  aMonitoring biodiversity1 aLAWSON, B.1 aBACCARO, F.1 aCASTILHO, C. V. de1 aCASTLEY, J. G.1 aCOSTA, F.1 aDRUCKER, D. P.1 aFRANKLIN, E.1 aLIMA, A. P.1 aLUIZÃO, R.1 aMENDONÇA, F.1 aPEZZINI, F.1 aSCHIETTI, J.1 aTOLEDO, J. J.1 aTOURINHO, A.1 aVERDADE, L. M.1 aHERO, J-M.  tIn:VERDADE, L. M.; Lyra-Jorge, M. C.; PIÑA, C. I. (Ed.). Applied ecology and human dimensions in biological conservation. Berlin: Springer, 2014.