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Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

Navarro, L; Fernandez, N; Guerra, C; Guralnick, R; Kissling, WD; Londono, MC; Muller-Karger, F; ... Pereira, H; + view all (2017) Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability , 29 pp. 158-169. 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005. Green open access

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Abstract

The ability to monitor changes in biodiversity, and their societal impact, is critical to conserving species and managing ecosystems. While emerging technologies increase the breadth and reach of data acquisition, monitoring efforts are still spatially and temporally fragmented, and taxonomically biased. Appropriate long-term information remains therefore limited. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) aims to provide a general framework for biodiversity monitoring to support decision-makers. Here, we discuss the coordinated observing system adopted by GEO BON, and review challenges and advances in its implementation, focusing on two interconnected core components — the Essential Biodiversity Variables as a standard framework for biodiversity monitoring, and the Biodiversity Observation Networks that support harmonized observation systems — while highlighting their societal relevance.

Type: Article
Title: Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005
Language: English
Additional information: © 2018 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences
URI: https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10045889
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