Designing monitoring programmes for Marine Protected Areas within an Evidence Based Decisi

A review article published in Frontiers in Marine Science in 2019 analyzes the objectives of Australia's Marine Park network and the types of questions and data analysis needed to address them. The work critically examines how monitoring program design influences the ability to answer these questions, using the strength of evidence hierarchy from the Evidence Based Decision Making paradigm. It was published by authors from Geoscience Australia and other institutions.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the strength of evidence provided by different monitoring designs based on the EBDM hierarchy described.
• Designing cohort or case-control studies for marine park impact assessment where Randomized Controlled Trials are excluded.
• Improving causal inference in conservation monitoring using propensity scores and structured expert judgment as discussed.
• Selecting control sites and implementing randomized, spatially balanced sampling for marine park monitoring programs.

Strengths

• Based on a peer-reviewed publication in Frontiers in Marine Science (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00746).
• Explicitly reviews the objectives of Australia's Marine Park network.
• Provides a framework for assessing monitoring designs using the Evidence Based Decision Making paradigm.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.

Provenance

Source

Geoscience Australia Data

Collection Method

Likely a review and analysis of existing marine park objectives and monitoring methodologies.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-14 04:13:18.889840; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia's Marine Park network