SCIENCE publication about EBVs

SCIENCE publication about EBVs

February 20, 2015

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our article about Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) got published in SCIENCE.

Reducing the rate of biodiversity loss and averting dangerous biodiversity change are international goals, reasserted by the Aichi Targets for 2020 by Parties to the United Nations (UN) Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) after failure to meet the 2010 target (1, 2). However, there is no global, harmonized observation system for delivering regular, timely data on biodiversity change (3). With the first plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) soon under way, partners from the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON) (4) are developing—and seeking consensus around—Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) that could form the basis of monitoring programs worldwide.

 

Essential Biodiversity Variables

SCIENCE – 2013: Vol. 339 no. 6117 pp. 277-278

https://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6117/277.full

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