Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

Laetitia Navarro; Nestor  Fernandez; Carlos Guerra; Rob Guralnick; Daniel Kissling; Maria Cecilia Londono; Frank Muller-Karger; Eren Turak; Patricia Balvanera; Mark Costello; Aurelie Delavaud; GY EI Serafy; Simon Ferrier; Ilse R. Geijzendorffer; Gary Geller; Walter Jetz; Eun-Shik Kim; HyeJin Kim; Corinne Martin; Corinne Martin; Melodie McGeoch; Tuyeni Mwampamba; J.L. Nel; Emily Nicholson; Nathalie Pettorelli; Michael Schaepman; Andrew Skidmore; Isabel Sousa Pinto; Sheila Vergara; Petteri Vihervaara; Haigen Xu; Tetsukazu Yahara; Mike Gill; Henrique Perreira

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005

Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination

Laetitia Navarro, Nestor Fernandez, Carlos Guerra, Rob Guralnick, Daniel Kissling, Maria Cecilia Londono, Frank Muller-Karger, Eren Turak, Patricia Balvanera, Mark Costello, Aurelie Delavaud, GY EI Serafy, Simon Ferrier, Ilse R. Geijzendorffer, Gary Geller, Walter Jetz, Eun-Shik Kim, HyeJin Kim, Corinne Martin, Corinne MartinMelodie McGeoch, Tuyeni Mwampamba, J.L. Nel, Emily Nicholson, Nathalie Pettorelli, Michael Schaepman, Andrew Skidmore, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Sheila Vergara, Petteri Vihervaara, Haigen Xu, Tetsukazu Yahara, Mike Gill, Henrique Perreira

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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 decisionmakers.
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	English
Article number	29
Pages (from-to)	158
Number of pages	169
Journal	Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability
Volume	29
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005
Publication status	Published - 2017

Funding

LMN, NF, CG, HJK, and HMP are supported by the German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118). GES, IG, and CG are also supported by ECOPOTENTIAL (http://www.ecopotential-project.eu), a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement no. 641762. WDK acknoweldges financial support from the European Commission (GLOBIS-B project, grant 654003). WJ acknowledges support by NASA grant AIST-16-0092, NSF grant DBI-1262600, and the Yale Centre for Biodiverstiy and Global Change. The contribution of MES is supported by the University of Zurich Research Priority Programme on ‘Global Change and Biodiversity’ (URPP GCB). CM and GES are supported by ODYSSEA (http://odysseaplatform.eu/), a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement no 727277. PV acknowledges Ministry of the Environment, the Finnish MAES project and The Strategic Research Council (SRC) at the Academy of Finland (grant no: 312559). FMK was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA grants NNX16AQ34G and NNX14AP62A), the NOAA US Integrated Ocean Observing System/IOOS Programme Office, the NOAA Ocean Exploration Programme, and the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service through the US National Ocean Partnership Programme. This manuscript is a contribution to the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network. Finally, the work developed within GEO BON is largely supported by the volunteer dedication of its members without whom this work, and many more, would not have been possible. LMN, NF, CG, HJK, and HMP are supported by the German Centre for integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, funded by the German Research Foundation ( FZT 118 ). GES, IG, and CG are also supported by ECOPOTENTIAL ( http://www.ecopotential-project.eu ), a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement no. 641762 . WDK acknoweldges financial support from the European Commission (GLOBIS-B project, grant 654003 ). WJ acknowledges support by NASA grant AIST-16-0092 , NSF grant DBI-1262600 , and the Yale Centre for Biodiverstiy and Global Change. The contribution of MES is supported by the University of Zurich Research Priority Programme on ‘Global Change and Biodiversity’ (URPP GCB). CM and GES are supported by ODYSSEA ( http://odysseaplatform.eu/ ), a project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, under grant agreement no 727277. PV acknowledges Ministry of the Environment, the Finnish MAES project and The Strategic Research Council (SRC) at the Academy of Finland (grant no: 312559 ). FMK was supported in part by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA grants NNX16AQ34G and NNX14AP62A ), the NOAA US Integrated Ocean Observing System/IOOS Programme Office, the NOAA Ocean Exploration Programme, and the NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service through the US National Ocean Partnership Programme. This manuscript is a contribution to the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network. Finally, the work developed within GEO BON is largely supported by the volunteer dedication of its members without whom this work, and many more, would not have been possible.

Funders	Funder number
ECOPOTENTIAL
European Union's Horizon 2020
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
ODYSSEA
University of Zurich Research Priority Programme
Yale Centre for Biodiverstiy and Global Change
National Aeronautics and Space Administration	NNX14AP62A, NNX16AQ34G, AIST-16-0092
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Montana Agricultural Experiment Station
Horizon 2020 Framework Programme	727277, 641762, 1262600
National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
European Commission	654003
National Stroke Foundation
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	FZT 118
Academy of Finland
Ministry of Education and Science
Ministry of the Environment
National Science Foundation	DBI-1262600
Strategic Research Council	312559, SRC

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Navarro, L., Fernandez, N., Guerra, C., Guralnick, R., Kissling, D., Londono, M. C., Muller-Karger, F., Turak, E., Balvanera, P., Costello, M., Delavaud, A., Serafy, GY. EI., Ferrier, S., Geijzendorffer, I. R., Geller, G., Jetz, W., Kim, E.-S., Kim, H., Martin, C., ... Perreira, H. (2017). Monitoring biodiversity change through effective global coordination. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 29, 158. Article 29. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2018.02.005

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