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Avoiding critical thresholds through effective monitoring
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2022
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Source: Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1977)
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Journal Title:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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Description:A major challenge in sustainability science is identifying targets that maximize ecosystem benefits to humanity while minimizing the risk of crossing critical system thresholds. One critical threshold is the biomass at which populations become so depleted that their population growth rates become negative—depensation. Here, we evaluate how the value of monitoring information increases as a natural resource spends more time near the critical threshold. This benefit emerges because higher monitoring precision promotes higher yield and a greater capacity to recover from overharvest. We show that precautionary buffers that trigger increased monitoring precision as resource levels decline may offer a way to minimize monitoring costs and maximize profits. In a world of finite resources, improving our understanding of the trade-off between precision in estimates of population status and the costs of mismanagement will benefit stakeholders that shoulder the burden of these economic and social costs.
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Source:Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1977)
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ISSN:0962-8452;1471-2954;
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