Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

W. Daniel Kissling; Ramona Walls; Anne Bowser; Matthew O. Jones; Jens Kattge; Donat Agosti; Josep Amengual; Alberto Basset; Peter M. van Bodegom; Johannes H.C. Cornelissen; Ellen G. Denny; Salud Deudero; Willi Egloff; Sarah C. Elmendorf; Enrique Alonso García; Katherine D. Jones; Owen R. Jones; Sandra Lavorel; Dan Lear; Laetitia M. Navarro; Samraat Pawar; Rebecca Pirzl; Nadja Rüger; Sofia Sal; Roberto Salguero-Gómez; Dmitry Schigel; Katja Sabine Schulz; Andrew Skidmore; Robert P. Guralnick

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Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits

W. Daniel Kissling^*, Ramona Walls, Anne Bowser, Matthew O. Jones, Jens Kattge, Donat Agosti, Josep Amengual, Alberto Basset, Peter M. van Bodegom, Johannes H.C. Cornelissen, Ellen G. Denny, Salud Deudero, Willi Egloff, Sarah C. Elmendorf, Enrique Alonso García, Katherine D. Jones, Owen R. Jones, Sandra Lavorel, Dan Lear, Laetitia M. NavarroSamraat Pawar, Rebecca Pirzl, Nadja Rüger, Sofia Sal, Roberto Salguero-Gómez, Dmitry Schigel, Katja Sabine Schulz, Andrew Skidmore, Robert P. Guralnick

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Abstract

Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) allow observation and reporting of global biodiversity change, but a detailed framework for the empirical derivation of specific EBVs has yet to be developed. Here, we re-examine and refine the previous candidate set of species traits EBVs and show how traits related to phenology, morphology, reproduction, physiology and movement can contribute to EBV operationalization. The selected EBVs express intra-specific trait variation and allow monitoring of how organisms respond to global change. We evaluate the societal relevance of species traits EBVs for policy targets and demonstrate how open, interoperable and machine-readable trait data enable the building of EBV data products. We outline collection methods, meta(data) standardization, reproducible workflows, semantic tools and licence requirements for producing species traits EBVs. An operationalization is critical for assessing progress towards biodiversity conservation and sustainable development goals and has wide implications for data-intensive science in ecology, biogeography, conservation and Earth observation.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1531-1540
Number of pages	10
Journal	Nature Ecology and Evolution
Volume	2
Issue number	October
Early online date	17 Sept 2018
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0667-3
Publication status	Published - Oct 2018

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This paper emerged from a workshop of the Horizon 2020 project GLOBIS-B (Global Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research; http://www.globisb.eu/). Financial support came from the European Commission (grant 654003). We thank J. Konijn for administrative support and the members of the BIOMAC lab (https://www.biomac.org/) for discussion. L.M.N. is supported by the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig funded by the German Research Foundation (FZT 118). N.R. was funded by a research grant from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (RU 1536/3-1).

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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG	RU 1536/3-1
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research
Natural Environment Research Council	NE/M004740/1, NE/M018458/2
European Commission	654003
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft	FZT 118
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Kissling, W. D., Walls, R., Bowser, A., Jones, M. O., Kattge, J., Agosti, D., Amengual, J., Basset, A., van Bodegom, P. M., Cornelissen, J. H. C., Denny, E. G., Deudero, S., Egloff, W., Elmendorf, S. C., Alonso García, E., Jones, K. D., Jones, O. R., Lavorel, S., Lear, D., ... Guralnick, R. P. (2018). Towards global data products of Essential Biodiversity Variables on species traits. Nature Ecology and Evolution, 2(October), 1531-1540. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0667-3

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