Designing Monitoring Programmes for Marine Protected Areas in Australia

Hayes et al. (2019) review the objectives of Australia's Marine Park network and identify questions and data analysis to address them. The work critically considers how monitoring program design influences the ability to answer these questions, using the Evidence Based Decision Making paradigm's strength of evidence hierarchy. It is published in Frontiers in Marine Science (doi: 10.3389/fmars.2019.00746).

Use Cases

• Evaluate monitoring program designs based on the strength of evidence hierarchy described.
• Identify appropriate study designs (e.g., cohort, case-control) for causal inference in marine park monitoring.
• Assess the role of randomized spatially balanced sampling and control site selection mentioned in the description.
• Apply propensity scores and structured expert judgment elicitation to improve evidence bases as suggested.

Strengths

• Published in a peer-reviewed journal (Frontiers in Marine Science).
• Provides a specific conceptual framework (Evidence Based Decision Making paradigm) for monitoring design.
• Focuses on the practical application of evidence hierarchies to Australia's Marine Park network.

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

Australian Ocean Data Network via data_gov_au.

Collection Method

Likely a review and conceptual analysis paper.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-23 02:23:40.420545; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Australia