Towards the global monitoring of biodiversity change

Pereira, Henrique M.; Cooper, H. D.

doi:10.1016/j.tree.2005.10.015

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“…Although all of these areas pose challenge for data gathering, analysis, and modeling, biodiversity is particular demanding because it involves the variety of kinds, spatial patterns, and interactions of biotic systems at multiple levels of organization (genes, species, ecosystems, and land- scapes or seascapes). The technical problems of comprehensive biodiversity monitoring appear tractable but will require concerted international effort (58,59). Critical data needs include (i) comprehensive time series information on changes in land cover and land use, biotic systems, and changes in use and ecological characteristics of oceans; (ii) locations and rates of desertification; (iii) spatial patterns and changes in freshwater quantity and quality, for both ground and surface waters; (iv) stocks, flows, and economic values of ecosystem services; (v) trends in human use of ecosystem services; (vi) changes in institutions and governance arrangements; and (vii) trends in components of human well-being (particularly those not traditionally measured, such as access to natural products that are not marketed).…”

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Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Carpenter

Mooney

Agard

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) introduced a new framework for analyzing social-ecological systems that has had wide influence in the policy and scientific communities. Studies after the MA are taking up new challenges in the basic science needed to assess, project, and manage flows of ecosystem services and effects on human well-being. Yet, our ability to draw general conclusions remains limited by focus on discipline-bound sectors of the full social-ecological system. At the same time, some polices and practices intended to improve ecosystem services and human well-being are based on untested assumptions and sparse information. The people who are affected and those who provide resources are increasingly asking for evidence that interventions improve ecosystem services and human well-being. New research is needed that considers the full ensemble of processes and feedbacks, for a range of biophysical and social systems, to better understand and manage the dynamics of the relationship between humans and the ecosystems on which they rely. Such research will expand the capacity to address fundamental questions about complex socialecological systems while evaluating assumptions of policies and practices intended to advance human well-being through improved ecosystem services.

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Section: Upgrade and Maintain Monitoring Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Carpenter

Mooney

Agard

et al. 2009

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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“…As it is obviously impossible to monitor all species, we need to select specific species for monitoring, presumably either those of a direct conservation or management interest or those that can act as “indicator species.” For instance, suitable indicator species have been suggested to be those that respond rapidly to environmental change over short timescales and that have strong effects on ecosystem function (Pereira & David Cooper, 2006). Along these lines, the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON 2010) defined three main categories of species that might be appropriate to monitor, which we summarize as (i) rapidly declining species , (ii) rapidly increasing species , and (iii) important species .…”

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Understanding and monitoring the consequences of human impacts on intraspecific variation

Mimura

Yahara

Faith

et al. 2016

Evolutionary Applications

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Intraspecific variation is a major component of biodiversity, yet it has received relatively little attention from governmental and nongovernmental organizations, especially with regard to conservation plans and the management of wild species. This omission is ill‐advised because phenotypic and genetic variations within and among populations can have dramatic effects on ecological and evolutionary processes, including responses to environmental change, the maintenance of species diversity, and ecological stability and resilience. At the same time, environmental changes associated with many human activities, such as land use and climate change, have dramatic and often negative impacts on intraspecific variation. We argue for the need for local, regional, and global programs to monitor intraspecific genetic variation. We suggest that such monitoring should include two main strategies: (i) intensive monitoring of multiple types of genetic variation in selected species and (ii) broad‐brush modeling for representative species for predicting changes in variation as a function of changes in population size and range extent. Overall, we call for collaborative efforts to initiate the urgently needed monitoring of intraspecific variation.

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“…Finally, assessment of these data is essential for effective conservation and management planning (e.g., Spellerberg 1991; Battersby & Greenwood 2004;Pereira & Cooper 2006). Although it is rather difficult to find precise data on the abundance of bats and their changes in particular regions (Thomas & LaVal 1988), in the temperate zone long-term population variations can be well estimated by counting hibernating bats in their underground roosts.…”

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Changes in abundance of hibernating bats in central Slovakia (1992–2009)

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An analysis of long-term changes in abundance of hibernating bats as revealed from the annual monitoring programme conducted in four mountain regions of the Western Carpathians (Muránska planina Mts, Revúcka vrchovina Mts, Slovenský kras Mts, Štiavnické vrchy Mts) during the period 1992-2009 is providing in the paper. Data from 52 hibernacula were analysed. Among 18 bat species recorded, an apparent population increase of three most abundant thermophilous and originally cave dwelling species of bats, Rhinolophus hipposideros, R. ferrumequinum, Myotis myotis, was observed. In other bat species (e.g., R. euryale, M. emarginatus, M. mystacinus, M. dasycneme, Barbastella barbastellus), population trends could not be detected and because of data scarcity, they should be evaluated from more extensive datasets obtained from a wide range of hibernacula or from a completely different type of evidence.

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Towards the global monitoring of biodiversity change

Cited by 335 publications

References 35 publications

Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Science for managing ecosystem services: Beyond the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment

Understanding and monitoring the consequences of human impacts on intraspecific variation

Changes in abundance of hibernating bats in central Slovakia (1992–2009)

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