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

A 2019 review by Hayes et al. examines the objectives of Australia's Marine Park network and the types of questions and data analysis needed to address them. The work critically considers how monitoring program design influences the ability to answer these questions, using the strength of evidence hierarchy from the Evidence Based Decision Making (EBDM) paradigm. It is published in Frontiers in Marine Science and hosted by the Australian Ocean Data Network.

Use Cases

• Assessing the adequacy of different monitoring design strategies based on the strength of evidence hierarchy mentioned in the description.
• Planning cohort or case-control studies for causal inference in marine park monitoring where Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are excluded.
• Improving sampling strategies using randomized, spatially balanced sampling and careful selection of control sites as discussed.
• Applying propensity scores and structured elicitation of expert judgment to strengthen the evidence base for marine park objectives.

Strengths

• Based on a peer-reviewed 2019 publication in Frontiers in Marine Science (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00746).
• Explicitly reviews the objectives of Australia's Marine Park network, providing a concrete geographical and institutional context.
• Discusses specific methodological approaches like RCTs, cohort studies, case-control studies, and propensity scores.

Limitations

• The primary content appears to be a scholarly article (HTML format) rather than a structured dataset; row and column counts are unknown.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal/source bias inherent to data_gov_au.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network

Collection Method

Likely a scholarly review and methodological analysis.

Time Range

Publication year is 2019.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-27 15:57:06.133847; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Focuses on Australia's Marine Park network.