Use Of Research Results

Indicate how the results of research programmes have been taken into account in the management of the biosphere reserve.

The forest inventory and restoration project undertaken by the LPBR in 1995-1998 attracted sufficient interest among landowners to have it continued, in cooperation with several other community groups, including Ontario Power Generation (related to emissions-trading credits). The inventory of about 50 monitoring activities underway in the Long Point area in 1995 has stimulated interest in how some more ecologically comprehensive monitoring program that also incorporated community interests might be designed, building in part on some of these on-going activities. The Community Action Plan sponsored by the LPBR in 1993-1994 identified some of the interests. In close cooperation with local hunters and anglers, the LPBR helped publicize the need to prevent disturbances of resting waterfowl flocks by boaters on Long Point Bay, but this was based on the review of work done elsewhere on the impacts of disturbances on waterfowl. Data from the SI/MAB plots has been compiled by Environment Canada's Ecological Monitoring Assessment Network (EMAN) for use in national monitoring studies.

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