Allocating monitoring effort in the face of unknown unknowns

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1325-1337

  Wintle, Brendan A ^a   Runge, Michael C ^b   Bekessy, Sarah A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Adaptive management; Cost efficiency; Decision theory; Knightian uncertainty; Surprise; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; MONITORING; RESOURCE USE; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ARTICLE; COST CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; METHODOLOGY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; COST CONTROL; DECISION MAKING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING;

KNIGHTIA;

EID: 78650403537     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01514.x     Document Type: Article

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