@book {493,
	title = {Guidelines for Biodiversity Assessment and Monitoring for Protected Areas},
	year = {2005},
	publisher = {The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal and the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK},
	organization = {The King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, Nepal and the UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, UK},
	address = {Nepal},
	abstract = {<p>Biodiversity assessment and monitoring in protected areas is normally,  and most appropriately, carried out as part of a management planning  process. It is therefore suggested that these guidelines are read and  used in conjunction with appropriate guidance on management planning  within protected areas. However, in some protected areas, management  plans may not have been prepared, or may not deal with biodiversity  issues in detail. Some advice is therefore given in Chapter 2 on key  aspects of management planning so that biodiversity assessments can be  carried out and monitoring programmes established in the absence of a  detailed biodiversity management plan.An introduction to biodiversity  assessments, with emphasis on participatory approaches is given in  Chapter 3, however, it is beyond the scope of these guidelines to give  detailed practical advice on this subject, and therefore the reader is  directed to some recommended references for further information.Chapter 4  provides guidance on the key practical considerations and decisions  involved in establishing a protected area monitoring programme. This  primarily focuses on issues concerned with selecting field methods and  survey sampling strategies that would be carried out by trained staff or  contractors. However, many of the key principles, such as those  associated with sampling, may also be applicable to participatory  approaches (e.g. selection of sample villages for holding interviews).  The chapter includes some brief advice on statistical analysis of  monitoring data, but again this subject is too large to deal with in  detail here.</p>},
	keywords = {assessment, awareness, biodiversity, boundary, communication, decision making, establishment, guidelines, management, methodology, monitoring, partnership, planning, protected area, selection, staff, stakeholders},
	author = {N-R. Chapagain and G. Tucker and P. Bubb and M. De Heer and L. Miles and A. Lawrence and S. Bajracharya and R-C. Nepal and R. Sherchan}
}
