NDLI: Wildlife in the cloud: A new approach for engaging stakeholders in wildlife management

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Chapron, Guillaume
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Research in wildlife management increasingly relies on quantitative population models. However, a remaining challenge is to have end-users, who are often alienated by mathematics, benefiting from this research. I propose a new approach, ‘wildlife in the cloud,’ to enable active learning by practitioners from cloud-based ecological models whose complexity remains invisible to the user. I argue that this concept carries the potential to overcome limitations of desktop-based software and allows new understandings of human-wildlife systems. This concept is illustrated by presenting an online decision-support tool for moose management in areas with predators in Sweden. The tool takes the form of a user-friendly cloud-app through which users can compare the effects of alternative management decisions, and may feed into adjustment of their hunting strategy. I explain how the dynamic nature of cloud-apps opens the door to different ways of learning, informed by ecological models that can benefit both users and researchers.
Starting Page	550
Ending Page	556
Page Count	7
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00447447
Journal	AMBIO
Volume Number	44
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	16547209
Language	English
Publisher	Springer Netherlands
Publisher Date	2015-10-27
Publisher Place	Dordrecht
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Population models Cloud-computing Wildlife management Moose Wolf Bear Environment Ecology Atmospheric Sciences Physical Geography Environmental Management Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Geography, Planning and Development Ecology Environmental Chemistry Medicine

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