Monitoring Biodiversity Change through Effective Global Coordination

Laetitia M Navarro; Néstor Fernández; Carlos Guerra; Rob Guralnick; W Daniel Kissling; Maria Cecilia Londoño; Frank Muller-Karger; Eren Turak; Patricia Balvanera; Mark J Costello; Aurelie Delavaud; GY El Serafy; Simon Ferrier; Ilse Geijzendorffer; Gary N Geller; Walter Jetz; Eun-Shik Kim; HyeJin Kim; Corinne S Martin; Melodie A McGeoch; Tuyeni H Mwampamba; Jeanne L Nel; Emily Nicholson; Nathalie Pettorelli; Michael E Schaepman; Andrew Skidmore; Isabel Sousa Pinto; Sheila Vergara; Petteri Vihervaara; Haigen Xu; Tetsukazu Yahara; Mike Gill; Henrique M Pereira

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005

Monitoring Biodiversity Change through Effective Global Coordination

Laetitia M Navarro, Néstor Fernández, Carlos Guerra, Rob Guralnick, W Daniel Kissling, Maria Cecilia Londoño, Frank Muller-Karger, Eren Turak, Patricia Balvanera, Mark J Costello, Aurelie Delavaud, GY El Serafy, Simon Ferrier, Ilse Geijzendorffer, Gary N Geller, Walter Jetz, Eun-Shik Kim, HyeJin Kim, Corinne S Martin, Melodie A McGeochTuyeni H Mwampamba, Jeanne L Nel, Emily Nicholson, Nathalie Pettorelli, Michael E Schaepman, Andrew Skidmore, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Sheila Vergara, Petteri Vihervaara, Haigen Xu, Tetsukazu Yahara, Mike Gill, Henrique M Pereira

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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.

Original language	American English
Journal	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

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Navarro, L. M., Fernández, N., Guerra, C., Guralnick, R., Kissling, W. D., Londoño, M. C., Muller-Karger, F., Turak, E., Balvanera, P., Costello, M. J., Delavaud, A., El Serafy, GY., Ferrier, S., Geijzendorffer, I., Geller, G. N., Jetz, W., Kim, E.-S., Kim, H., Martin, C. S., ... Pereira, H. M. (2017). Monitoring Biodiversity Change through Effective Global Coordination. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005

Navarro, LM, Fernández, N, Guerra, C, Guralnick, R, Kissling, WD, Londoño, MC, Muller-Karger, F, Turak, E, Balvanera, P, Costello, MJ, Delavaud, A, El Serafy, GY, Ferrier, S, Geijzendorffer, I, Geller, GN, Jetz, W, Kim, E-S, Kim, H, Martin, CS, McGeoch, MA, Mwampamba, TH, Nel, JL, Nicholson, E, Pettorelli, N, Schaepman, ME, Skidmore, A, Sousa Pinto, I, Vergara, S, Vihervaara, P, Xu, H, Yahara, T, Gill, M & Pereira, HM 2017, 'Monitoring Biodiversity Change through Effective Global Coordination', Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, vol. 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005

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