Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

Dirk S. Schmeller; Romain Julliard; Peter J. Bellingham; Monika Böhm; Neil Brummitt; Alessandro Chiarucci; Denis Couvet; Sarah Elmendorf; David M. Forsyth; Jaime García Moreno; Richard D. Gregory; William E. Magnusson; Laura J. Martin; Melodie A. McGeoch; Jean-Baptiste Mihoub; Henrique M. Pereira; Vânia Proença; Chris A.M. van Swaay; Tetsukazu Yahara; Jayne Belnap

doi:10.1016/j.jnc.2015.03.003

Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program

Journal for Nature Conservation

By: Dirk S. Schmeller, Romain Julliard, Peter J. Bellingham, Monika Böhm, Neil Brummitt, Alessandro Chiarucci, Denis Couvet, Sarah Elmendorf, David M. Forsyth, Jaime García Moreno, Richard D. Gregory, William E. Magnusson, Laura J. Martin, Melodie A. McGeoch, Jean-Baptiste Mihoub, Henrique M. Pereira, Vânia Proença, Chris A.M. van Swaay, Tetsukazu Yahara, and Jayne Belnap

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2015.03.003

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Abstract

Introduction: The Convention for Biological Diversity’s (CBD) Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 envisions that “By 2050, biodiversity is valued, conserved, restored and wisely used, maintaining ecosystem services, sustaining a healthy planet and delivering benefits essential for all people.” Although 193 parties have adopted these goals, there is little infrastructure in place to monitor global biodiversity trends. Recent international conservation policy requires such data to be up-to-date, reliable, comparable among sites, relevant, and understandable; as is becoming obvious from the work plan adopted by the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES: www.ipbes.net/; http://tinyurl.com/ohdnknq). In order to meet the five strategic goals of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020 and its 20 accompanying Aichi Targets for 2020 (www.cbd.int/sp/targets/), advances need to be made in coordinating large-scale biodiversity monitoring and linking these with environmental data to develop a comprehensive Global Observation Network, as is the main idea behind GEOSS the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (Christian 2005)...Here we identify ten requirements important for the successful implementation of a global biodiversity monitoring network under the flag of GEO BON and especially a global terrestrial species monitoring program.

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Publication type	Article
Publication Subtype	Journal Article
Title	Towards a global terrestrial species monitoring program
Series title	Journal for Nature Conservation
DOI	10.1016/j.jnc.2015.03.003
Volume	25
Year Published	2015
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Contributing office(s)	Southwest Biological Science Center
Description	7 p.
First page	51
Last page	57
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