Review of monitoring approaches to deliver healthy ecosystems for Scotland's protected fresh waters and wetlands

Richard Gosling; Neil Coles; Sarah Halliday; Sayali Pawar; Andrew Black; John Rowan

Review of monitoring approaches to deliver healthy ecosystems for Scotland's protected fresh waters and wetlands

Richard Gosling, Neil Coles, Sarah Halliday, Sayali Pawar, Andrew Black, John Rowan

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The project recommends developing a multi-index ecosystem assessment framework that will:

• Use indicators of pressures, physicochemical state and biological impact to assess ecosystem health.
• Help decision-makers allocate monitoring resources appropriately to inform the delivery of healthy ecosystems.
• Facilitate data sharing and inter-organisational collaboration to create practical conservation strategies.
• The project found that to support this transition, NatureScot can leverage existing tools while exploring new, innovative approaches. The key steps in this transition include:

1. Working with monitoring partners to assess the availability, format, and accessibility of existing healthy ecosystem indicator data.
2. Building the necessary skills to collate, interpret and apply a wider ecosystems dataset.
3. Developing a data integration approach that will synthesis ecosystem data across a range of data types and scales.
4. Evaluating the policy, resource, and legislative implications of a new monitoring approach.

Original language	English
Publisher	Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW)
Commissioning body	CREW: Centre of Expertise for Waters
Number of pages	64
ISBN (Electronic)	9781911706342
Publication status	Published - 19 Mar 2025

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