Measuring the Impact of Conservation : The Growing Importance of Monitoring Fauna, Flora and Funga

Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and sustainably manage nature. Here we review the importance of enhancing biodiversity monitoring, assess the challenges involved and identify potential solutions. Capacity for biodiversity monitoring needs to be enhanced urgently, especially in poorer, high-biodiversity countries where data gaps are disproportionately high. Modern tools and technologies, including remote sensing, bioacoustics and environmental DNA, should be used at larger scales to fill taxonomic and geographic data gaps, especially in the tropics, in marine and freshwater biomes, and for plants, fungi and invertebrates. Stakeholders need to follow best monitoring practices, adopting appropriate indicators and using counterfactual approaches to measure and attribute outcomes and impacts. Data should be made openly and freely available. Companies need to invest in collecting the data required to enhance sustainability in their operations and supply chains. With governments soon to commit to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the time is right to make a concerted push on monitoring. However, action at scale is needed now if we are to enhance results-based management adequately to conserve the biodiversity and ecosystem services we all depend on.This paper was made possible by funding from the Swiss Network for International Studies to the University of Lausanne (L.F. and P.J.S.) and its partners under the project: "Unblocking the flow of biodiversity data for multi-stakeholder environmental sustainability management". The research was carried out, in part, by GNG at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). PAVB was supported by the project MACRISK-PTDC/BIA-CBI/0625/2021, through the FCT-FundacAo para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia. YNB acknowledges support from the Audemars-Watkins Foundation for the CBCR's protected area monitoring work featured in this paper.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Measuring the Impact of Conservation: The Growing Importance of Monitoring Fauna, Flora and Funga

Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and sustainably manage nature. Here we review the importance of enhancing biodiversity monitoring, assess the challenges involved and identify potential solutions. Capacity for biodiversity monitoring needs to be enhanced urgently, especially in poorer, high-biodiversity countries where data gaps are disproportionately high. Modern tools and technologies, including remote sensing, bioacoustics and environmental DNA, should be used at larger scales to fill taxonomic and geographic data gaps, especially in the tropics, in marine and freshwater biomes, and for plants, fungi and invertebrates. Stakeholders need to follow best monitoring practices, adopting appropriate indicators and using counterfactual approaches to measure and attribute outcomes and impacts. Data should be made openly and freely available. Companies need to invest in collecting the data required to enhance sustainability in their operations and supply chains. With governments soon to commit to the post-2020 global biodiversity framework, the time is right to make a concerted push on monitoring. However, action at scale is needed now if we are to enhance results-based management adequately to conserve the biodiversity and ecosystem services we all depend on

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets.acceptedVersio

DINÁMICA ESPACIO-TEMPORAL EN LA DIVERSIDAD DE SERPIENTES EN CUATRO HÁBITATS CON DIFERENTE GRADO DE ALTERACIÓN ANTROPOGÉNICA EN EL PARQUE NACIONAL NATURAL ISLA GORGONA, PACÍFICO COLOMBIANO

En la actualidad los entornos naturales se han convertido en paisajes fragmentados por actividades como la agricultura y la ganadería. La alteración antropogénica determina cambios en la diversidad de serpientes al alterar físicamente el paisaje y generar cambios en la estructura de la vegetación y el microclima. En el presente estudio se determinó la diversidad de serpientes de cuatro hábitats con diferente grado de alteración antropogénica en la Isla Gorgona. A partir de búsquedas visuales durante junio-julio 2001 y febrero-abril 2004 y a lo largo de 32 transectos lineales se registraron 51 individuos pertenecientes a 13 especies de serpientes. Se determinó una representatividad del muestreo entre el 60 y el 78% de las especies estimadas. La mayor riqueza se encontró en el bosque secundario, seguido por el primario y los cultivos. El mayor recambio de especies se presentó entre la prisión y los cultivos, y entre la prisión y el bosque primario. En el bosque secundario y primario la abundancia de serpientes se duplicó durante las lluvias mientras que en cultivos y prisión la abundancia fue mayor en época seca. Es posible que la alteración antropogénica afecte negativamente a las especies Leptophis ahaetulla, Micrurus dumerili, Oxybelis brevirostris y Tantilla longifrontalis, sin embargo, ninguna de éstas se encuentra categorizada en la lista de especies en peligro de extinción. Es necesario invertir mayor esfuerzo de captura de serpientes en ambientes conservados que en hábitats alterados, y es importante determinar la dinámica espacio- temporal en el ensamblaje de serpientes para enfocar correctamente los planes de manejo y conservación de la ofidiofauna en ambientes alterado

Achieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions

Governments are negotiating actions intended to halt biodiversity loss and put it on a path to recovery by 2050. Here, we show that bending the curve for biodiversity is possible, but only if actions are implemented urgently and in an integrated manner. Connecting these actions to biodiversity outcomes and tracking progress remain a challenge

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets