Authors
Cornelia B Krug, Michael E Schaepman, Lynne J Shannon, Jeannine Cavender-Bares, William Cheung, Peter B McIntyre, Jean Paul Metzger, Ülo Niinemets, David O Obura, Bernhard Schmid, Bernardo BN Strassburg, Astrid JA Van Teeffelen, Olaf LF Weyl, Moriaki Yasuhara, Paul W Leadley
Publication date
2017/12/1
Source
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
Volume
29
Pages
198-206
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
bioDISCOVERY activities, in collaboration with partners, seek to:
- Enhance capacity to observe the status and trends of biodiversity and ecosystems;
- Improve the ability to explore future interactions between people and nature;
- Provide the science that supports international conventions; and
- Integrate observations, indicators and scenarios to advance sustainability science.
- Support policy and decision-making for global environmental management.
Improving understanding of how biodiversity and ecosystems respond to environmental change is necessary to guide policy and management. To this end, the bioDISCOVERY project of the international programme on global change, Future Earth, initiates and supports international networks of scientists to advance research on monitoring and observations, scenarios and models, and assessments of biodiversity and ecosystems. bioDISCOVERY activities seek …
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