The rapid global growth of conservation schemes designed to incentivize local communities
to conserve natural resources has placed new importance on biological monitoring to
assess whether agreements and targets linked to payments are being met. To evaluate
competence in natural resource monitoring, we compared data on status and trends
collected independently by local-community members and trained scientists for 63 taxa and
five types of resource use in 34 tropical forest sites across four countries over 2.5 years. We …

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