Global biodiversity monitoring: From data sources to Essential Biodiversity Variables

• Tipo: Artigo em Revista Científica Internacional
• Data: 2017

Autores

Proenca, V (Autor) Outra; Martin, LJ (Autor) Outra; Pereira, HM (Autor) Outra; Fernandez, M (Autor) Outra; McRae, L (Autor) Outra; Belnap, J (Autor) Outra; Bohm, M (Autor) Outra; Brummitt, N (Autor) Outra; Garcia Moreno, J (Autor) Outra; Gregory, RD (Autor) Outra; Joao Honrado (Autor) FCUP; Jurgens, N (Autor) Outra; Opige, M (Autor) Outra; Schmeller, DS (Autor) Outra; Tiago, P (Autor) Outra; van Swaay, CAM (Autor) Outra

Revista

Título: Biological Conservation

Vol. 213

Páginas: 256-263

ISSN: 0006-3207

Editora: Elsevier

Indexação

ISI Web of Knowledge - 150 Citações

Scopus - 168 Citações

Outras Informações

ID Authenticus: P-00N-0JQ

DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2016.07.014

Abstract (EN): Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) consolidate information from varied biodiversity observation sources. Here we demonstrate the links between data sources, EBVs and indicators and discuss how different sources of biodiversity observations can be harnessed to inform EBVs. We classify sources of primary observations into four types: extensive and intensive monitoring schemes, ecological field studies and satellite remote sensing. We characterize their geographic, taxonomic and temporal coverage. Ecological field studies and intensive monitoring schemes inform a wide range of EBVs, but the former tend to deliver short-term data, while the geographic coverage of the latter is limited. In contrast, extensive monitoring schemes mostly inform the population abundance EBV, but deliver long-term data across an extensive network of sites. Satellite remote sensing is particularly suited to providing information on ecosystem function and structure EBVs. Biases behind data sources may affect the representativeness of global biodiversity datasets. To improve them, researchers must assess data sources and then develop strategies to compensate for identified gaps. We draw on the population abundance dataset informing the Living Planet Index (LPI) to illustrate the effects of data sources on EBV representativeness. We find that long-term monitoring schemes informing the LPI are still scarce outside of Europe and North America and that ecological field studies play a key role in covering that gap. Achieving representative EBV datasets will depend both on the ability to integrate available data, through data harmonization and modeling efforts, and on the establishment of new monitoring programs to address critical data gaps. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

Idioma: Inglês

Tipo (Avaliação Docente): Científica

Nº de páginas: 8