dc.contributor.author | Thurstan, RH | |
dc.contributor.author | Buckley, SM | |
dc.contributor.author | Ortiz, JC | |
dc.contributor.author | Pandolfi, JM | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-11-08T10:29:08Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2015-06-09 | |
dc.description.abstract | Ecological degradation is accelerating, reducing our ability to detect and reverse declines. Resource user accounts have the potential to provide critical information on past change but their reliability can rarely be tested, hence they are often perceived as less valid than other forms of scientific data. We compared individual fishers' catch records, recorded 1-50 years ago, with their memories of past good, typical and poor catches for the corresponding time period. Good and poor catches were recalled with reasonable accuracy, matching variability in recorded catch with no significant change observed over time. Typical recalled catches were overestimated and became significantly more exaggerated over time, but were more comparable to mean than median recorded values. While accuracy of resource users' memory varied with the type of information recalled, our results suggest that carefully structured interview questions can produce reliable quantitative data to inform resource management, even after several decades have elapsed. | en_GB |
dc.description.sponsorship | All authors were supported by the Australian
Research Council’s Centre for Excellence for Coral Reef
Studies. Fieldwork components were supported by The
University of Queensland’s New Staff Start-Up Fund
(Project No. 2012000643) and the FRDC (Project No.
2013–018), on behalf of the Australian Government. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.citation | Vol. 9 (2), pp. 98 - 105 | en_GB |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1111/conl.12184 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10871/30198 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_GB |
dc.publisher | Wiley for Society for Conservation Biology | en_GB |
dc.rights | © 2015 The Authors. Conservation Letters published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en_GB |
dc.title | Setting the Record Straight: Assessing the Reliability of Retrospective Accounts of Change | en_GB |
dc.type | Article | en_GB |
dc.date.available | 2017-11-08T10:29:08Z | |
dc.description | This is the final version of the article. Available from Wiley via the DOI in this record. | en_GB |
dc.identifier.journal | Conservation Letters | en_GB |