Integrating novel technologies in long-term ecological monitoring
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Edited by Nigel Yoccoz, Charlie Outhwaite
Reported biodiversity declines worldwide and renewed attention to halting these declines have prompted a strong demand for standardised, taxonomically rich and spatio-temporally fine-grained biodiversity monitoring data. Such data has been challenging to collect in a cost-effective manner. The emergence of novel technologies such as those translating species occurrences detected in image, sound, radar and DNA data hold potential to close some of the apparent data gaps. This session invites presentations advancing our understanding of such novel biodiversity monitoring methods, their strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for integration with existing long-term monitoring programs. We welcome contributions across taxonomic groups from pilot projects to large-scale implementation.