Using expert-elicitation to deliver biodiversity monitoring priorities on a Mediterranean island

5. Other resource, e.g. any resource that was not considered to fit within the previous themes. A sixth theme was assigned to the additional comments received as part of the online ques- tionnaire and expert-elicitation workshop, “Political”. This theme was assigned to comments where overarching or management-level decision-making issues were raised. Additional com- ments raised from the online survey and workshop were brought into the discussions of the expert-elicitation workshop, but these points were not ultimately included in the final list. The individual themes were combined where biodiversity monitoring needs were consid- ered to have spanned several themes. For example, Design/Human resource for the need: “There is wide coverage across the country/region, e.g. covering remote and well-populated areas” to recognise that this need would require both participant engagement to physically record in different areas, alongside survey design to ensure representative distribution data were collected. Fig 3. Radar chart showing the results of an online questionnaire. Radar chart showing the results of an online questionnaire sent to 47 stakeholders. The 26 biodiversity monitoring needs were resolved into eight themes post-workshop: Analytical, Design, Design/Technological, Technological, Technological/Human resource, Human resource, Design/Human Resource, and Other resource. The number of times stakeholders selected each of the eight themes is given on the radial axis next to the theme name. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0256777.g003 PLOS ONE

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