Forest COMPASS monitoring themes - table
For reference, we provide here a list and description of the monitoring themes under which we have categorised the indicators used in each of the case studies on the Forest COMPASS website.
| Monitoring theme | Description |
|---|---|
| Carbon biomass | For monitoring carbon below, above, brush (not soil). |
| Biodiversity | For monitoring changes in biodiversity in a taxa, speices or proxy. |
| (Regulating) ecosystem services | For monitoring water provision, regulation of water flow, soil erosion. |
| Natural resources | For monitoring water availability, game, fishing, medicinal plants, NTFP's, timber for housing. |
| Wellbeing/social issues | For monitoring social benfits and social harms, includes pollution. |
| Policies and measures | For monitoring REDD+ interventions, government interventions for social benefits, biodiversity conservation action plans, legal timber extraction legislation. |
| Governance | For monitoring benefit sharing mechanism transparency, FPIC. |
| Causes of deforestation | For monitoring illegal and legal causes of deforestation. |
| Deforestation/degradation/land cover changes | For ground-thruthing remote sensing data and for estimating deforestation rates. |
| Other | Anything not included in the other themes. |