Sharing and reporting benefits from biodiversity research

Marden, Emily; Abbott, Richard J.; Austerlitz, Frédéric; Ortiz‐Barrientos, Daniel; Baucom, Regina S.; Bongaerts, Pim; Bonin, Aurélie; Bonneaud, Camille; Browne, Luke; Buerkle, C. Alex; Caicedo, Ana L.; Coltman, David W.; Cruzan, Mitchell B.; Davison, Angus; DeWoody, J. Andrew; Dumbrell, Alex J.; Emerson, Brent C.; Fountain-Jones, Nicholas M.; Gillespie, Rosemary G.; Giraud, Tatiana; Hansen, Michael Møller; Hodgins, Kathryn A.; Heuertz, Myriam; Hirase, Shotaro; Hooper, Robert; Hohenlohe, Paul A.; Kane, Nolan C.; Kelley, Joanna L.; Kinziger, Andrew P.; McKenzie, Valerie J.; Moreau, Corrie S.; Nazareno, Alison G.; Pelletier, Tara A.; Pemberton, Josephine M.; Qu, Yanhua; Renaut, Sébastien; Riginos, Cynthia; Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, Naiara; Rogers, Sean M.; Russell, Jacob A.; Schoville, Sean D.; Shi, Suhua; Smith, Megan L.; Sork, Victoria L.; Stone, Graham; Taberlet, Pierre; Videvall, Elin; Waits, Lisette P.; Warschefsky, Emily; Wayne, Robert K.; Whibley, Annabel; Willoughby, Janna R.; Yoder, Jeremy B.; Zinger, Lucie; Sibbett, Benjamin; Narum, Shawn R.; Rieseberg, Loren H.

doi:10.1111/mec.15702

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“…As a research community there is incentive to support Indigenous interests and ABS (Editorial, 2020 Nature Reviews Genetics;Marden et al, 2020). Without appropriate means to build trust and safeguard Indigenous interests, research and most importantly, biodiversity and conservation outcomes for our shared futures may be compromised (Marden et al, 2020;Marden, 2018;Smyth et al, 2020). To ensure equitable understanding of the Notices.…”

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“…In a recent editorial, the editors of Molecular Ecology and Molecular Ecology Resources made a timely and proactive statement of support for the “Nagoya Protocol” and the principle of benefit‐sharing (Marden et al, 2020; and reiterated in Rieseberg et al, 2021). The 2014 “Nagoya Protocol on Access to Genetic Resources and the Fair and Equitable Sharing of Benefits Arising from their Utilization” is an international agreement to ensure that the benefits arising from the utilization of genetic resources are shared equitably (United Nations, 2011; https://www.cbd.int/abs/).…”

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Creating space for Indigenous perspectives on access and benefit‐sharing: Encouraging researcher use of the Local Contexts Notices

2021

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A recent Molecular Ecology editorial made a proactive statement of support for the “Nagoya Protocol” and the principle of benefit‐sharing by requiring authors to provide a “Data Accessibility and Benefit‐Sharing Statement” in their articles. Here, we encourage another step that enables Indigenous communities to provide their own definitions and aspirations for access and benefit‐sharing alongside the author's “Statement”. We invite the Molecular Ecology research community to use Biocultural‐, Traditional Knowledge‐, and Cultural Institution Notices to help Indigenous communities gain visibility within our research structures. Notices are one of the tools offered by the Biocultural Labels Initiative (part of the Local Contexts system) designed specifically for researchers and institutions. The Notices are highly visible, machine‐readable icons that signal the Indigenous provenance of genetic resources, and rights of Indigenous communities to define the future use of genetic resources and derived benefits. The Notices invite collaboration with Indigenous communities and create spaces within our research systems for them to define the provenance, protocols, and permissions associated with genetic resources using Labels. Authors contributing to Molecular Ecology can apply Notices to their articles by providing the persistent unique identifier and an optional use‐statement associated with the Notice in their “Data Accessibility and Benefit‐Sharing Statement”. In this way, our research community has an opportunity to accelerate support for the principles of the Nagoya Protocol, to alleviate concerns regarding Indigenous Data Sovereignty and equitable outcomes, and to build better relationships with Indigenous collaborators to enhance research, biodiversity, and conservation outcomes.

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Creating space for Indigenous perspectives on access and benefit‐sharing: Encouraging researcher use of the Local Contexts Notices

2021

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“…Likewise, procedures used for preprocessing samples before DNA extraction (e.g., mesh size for water sample filtering or sediment sieving), and conditions (e.g., temperature) should be provided, as well as storage conditions of sample or preprocessed material. Sample collection for studies submitted to Molecular Ecology Resources are expected to comply with the Nagoya protocol (Marden et al, 2021).…”

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Biodiversity monitoring using environmental DNA

Rodríguez-Ezpeleta¹,

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Monitoring biodiversity is essential to protect, preserve and restore ecosystems, particularly in the context of current challenges such as climate change, habitat destruction and globalization (Baird & Hajibabaei, 2012). Biomonitoring is needed for developing biotic indices for assessing ecological status, measuring impacts of anthropogenic activities in natural ecosystems, evaluating biodiversity loss, surveying nonindigenous species, conservation, and identifying cryptic species (Balvanera et al., 2006;Fišer et al., 2018). Thus, spatially and temporally structured biomonitoring activities provide a powerful tool for the implementation of regional, national and international regulations, directives and policies for nature conservation.However substantial impediments exist including access to remote locations, limited specialist taxonomic knowledge, cost, slow pace of human-driven data analyses, and typically low sensitivity for detection of rare and elusive species (Zinger et al., 2020). These drawbacks are often translated into expensive monitoring activities with limited spatial, temporal and taxonomic coverage. In this context, new approaches for biomonitoring are being explored, among which advanced DNA-based technologies are emerging (Kissling et al., 2018). The field of biodiversity monitoring through the analysis of the pool of DNA isolated from environmental samples, referred to as environmental DNA or eDNA (Pawlowski et al., 2020;Taberlet et al., 2012), is rapidly growing. This growth is being driven through improved approaches for sampling, data generation and analyses, and with recent advances on how eDNA should be interpreted for biodiversity assessments (Bohmann et al., 2014). The success of eDNA-based biomonitoring is reflected in exponential growth of publications within this area and increasing submissions to Molecular Ecology Resources in particular (Figure 1). Molecular Ecology Resources aims to publish high quality eDNA studies that serve as broad resources, including innovative methodologies for DNA sampling, enhanced laboratory protocols for data generation, or new computer programs and statistical advances for data analyses. Thus, the aim of this editorial is to contribute to producing good quality DNA dataderived essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) (Kissling et al., 2018) by providing guidance to the community submitting articles on the subject. For that purpose, we have summarized best practices established in published literature related to the different phases involved in the process, namely sampling, laboratory work, bioinformatic analyses and data interpretation (Figure 2).

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“…The Protocol came into force in 2014 and has been ratified by 127 countries, as well as the European Union. We believe that scientific journals publishing research on biodiversity can contribute importantly to the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol and to the reporting on benefits generated from such research (Marden et al., 2020). Therefore, as of January 2020, Molecular Ecology requires that the research described published in the journal complies with national laws implementing the Convention on Biological Diversity and Nagoya Protocol agreements.…”

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“…Further information on the scope of benefits recognized under the Nagoya Protocol and example statements are provided in Marden et al. (2020).…”

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