Best Practice Monitoring Toolkit
John Kanowski1, Carla P. Catterall2, Kylie
Freebody1,2 and Debra A. Harrison1,3
1 School of Environment, Griffith University
2 Tablelands Community Revegetation Unit
3 Terrain NRM
ISBN 9781921359170
Published September 2008
MTSRF Project 4.9.5 -
Restoring tropical forest landscapes
Purpose of the toolkit
This toolkit was written to assist landholders, community groups
and restoration practitioners record the details of their
revegetation projects, assess their condition and monitor their
outcomes for biodiversity and carbon sequestration.
This document, Version 2, of the monitoring toolkit was written
as a series of modules; each dealing with a specific component of
the monitoring of revegetation projects, as follows:
- The design of monitoring
programs;
- Recording project details;
- Assessing the condition of
projects;
- Monitoring forest structure;
- Monitoring plant species
composition;
- Estimating carbon sequestration;
and
- Managing, analysing and evaluating
data.
No specialist training is required to use Modules 2, 3 and 4 of
the toolkit, that is, to record project details, assess site
condition and monitor forest structure. Botanical expertise
is required to monitor plant species composition (Module 5) and
accurately estimate carbon sequestration (Module 6). However,
on many sites, data on forest structure (Module 4, which does not
require specialist expertise) can provide robust estimates of
carbon sequestration.
Supporting materials
Four Microsoft Excel spreadsheets have been developed to
accompany this version of the monitoring toolkit to help store,
analyse and summarise the data collected from monitoring of
revegetated sites and to provide scientific input. Each
includes a page of explanatory notes (the first spreadsheet within
each file).
For further information about the toolkit, contact the head
author:
J.Kanowski@griffith.edu.au
