The National Program for Monitoring the State of Nature and Biodiversity in Open Landscapes in Israel

The article, written by Dr. Naama Berg, Orit Ginzburg and Prof. Avi Perevolotsky, was published in August 2012 in the Hebrew-language Journal “Ecology and Environment” of the Israel Society of Ecology and Environmental Sciences. The article includes a background survey emphasizing the necessity for monitoring to optimize management of natural resources, and a description of the monitoring program which commenced in April 2012: how the program was developed and the expected use of the program’s findings [in Hebrew].