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How can adaptive management and monitoring be incorporated into pest control?
Baseline conditions of the project area should be documented before any work is done in order to compare post-project and long-term site conditions to pre-project conditions. Criteria that could be tracked and periodically compared to baseline conditions to monitor project effectiveness and success and feed into an adaptive management process include continued absence or tolerable levels of pest species, natural recruitment in the treated areas by the pest’s natural enemies (to be determined through photo documentation and visual monitoring of treatment areas), and increased presence of natural enemies (to be determined by visual surveys).
Monitoring of the project area will ensure that any project maintenance needs are noted and corrected in a timely manner. Maintenance requirements could potentially include reapplication of treatment at or below initial levels of application, and the removal/treatment of new generations of the target pest, and/or new pest species that may encroach on the project site.
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