Authors
Laetitia M Navarro, Nestor Fernandez, 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
Publication date
2017/12/1
Source
Current opinion in environmental sustainability
Volume
29
Pages
158-169
Publisher
Elsevier
Description
Highlights
- Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services has far reaching societal relevance.
- A user-driven monitoring framework is needed to address the biodiversity crisis.
- GEO BON core components are the development of the EBVs and BONs.
- EBVs provide an integrative framework to monitor multiple components of biodiversity.
- BONs improve the coordination and harmonization of observation systems across scales.
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 …
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