Long-term monitoring strategies for ecological reclamation programmes using spatially balanced rotating panel designs

Environmental monitoring continues to be necessary along with a growing human population and increased anthropocentric land use changes.  In instances where oil and gas development and subsequent ecological reclamation practices occur, constraints associated with manpower and short growing seasons may make it impossible to conduct full census surveys on every location.  We propose using a spatially balanced rotating panel sampling design which utilizes neighbourhoods created by spatial and auxiliary information. As it is common for reclamation efforts across space to be influenced by environmental factors, we assume nearby locations which are treated with the same inputs will be more similar to each other than far away areas. We use a one-point-per-cluster sampling design to ensure good spatial coverage of the large area. This approach is helpful because it guarantees local coverage during each sampling phase, achieves equal inclusion probabilities, and has excellent spatial s..., , # Long-term monitoring strategies for ecological reclamation programmes using spatially balanced rotating panel designs

Dataset DOI: [10.5061/dryad.k98sf7mmc](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.k98sf7mmc)

## Description of the data and file structure

This dataset contains spatial information for well pads located within the Pinedale Anticline natural gas field in Sublette County, Wyoming, USA.  These locations are those which were used to create neighbourhoods and panels within the manuscript titled \"Long-term monitoring strategies for ecological reclamation programmes using spatially balanced rotating panel designs\" in *Ecological Solutions and Evidence*.

## Code/software

The data was processed in Program R (any version after [R-4.5.1 )](https://cran.r-project.org/bin/windows/base/)using the package 'spbal' : Robertson, B.L., Davies, P., Gansell, O., van Dam‐Bates, P. and McDonald, T., 2025. spbal: An R package for spatially balanced master sampling. *Australian & New Zealand Journal o...,