Tracking Progress Toward the 2010 Biodiversity Target and Beyond

Abstract

provide a means to enhance the quality and timeliness of the inter actions between scientists and policy-makers at national scales and above. The GLOBE International Commission on Land Use Change and Ecosystems, made up of senior legislators from the G8+5 and several developing countries, provides another opportunity to bring policy-makers and scientists together. Similar initiatives will also be needed at the subnational scale.The United Nations will convene a summit in 2010 to consider the second 5-year review of the MDGs and to catalyze action ahead of the 2015 MDG target year. We must advise policy-makers and civil society organizations on the most critical initiatives needed to achieve the MDGs while preserving biodiversity and ecosystem services.

Four barriers to the global understanding of biodiversity conservation: wealth, language, geographical location and security

“…Global assessments of the distributions and changes in biodiversity in spatial and temporal contexts have played a crucial role in efficiently allocating limited resources to high-priority areas and species [1][2][3][4][5]. However, the limited amount of available information poses one of the toughest challenges for such global efforts [6,7]. For example, 18 per cent of animal species that have been evaluated to date by the IUCN have been categorized as datadeficient, because the information available for the assessment of population status is so limited [1].…”

MetaNatuurplanner v2.0 : status A

“…De link met de Natuurplanner is zoveel mogelijk vastgehouden, om de mogelijkheid te hebben om in uitgebreidere studies dan waarvoor de MetaNatuurplanner wordt gebruikt, meer gedetailleerde, maar ook vergelijkbare, berekeningen te kunnen blijven doen. Belangrijk voor de toepasbaarheid van modellen op het grensvlak van wetenschap en beleid is dat de resultaten kunnen worden weergegeven in een samenhangende set van indicatoren (Sparks et al, 2011;Walpole et al, 2009) die aansluiten op relevantie beleidsdoelen (zoals uit de Vogel-en Habitatrichtlijn en de Europese Biodiversiteitsstrategie (CBD, 2010). Hierdoor zijn de resultaten eenvoudig te begrijpen voor beleidsmakers en belanghebbenden (Robertson & Hull, 2001;Nicholson et al, 2012).…”

Tradeoffs among Ecosystem Services Associated with Global Tilapia Introductions

“…Quantitative measurement was defined as the numerical measurement of the parameters implicated in the effect or mechanism categories; purely anecdotal reports, presence-absence reports, and species lists were not included as quantitative measures. Time series was defined as the use of data collected either before and after tilapia introduction, or collected at least three data points across 10 years post tilapia introduction (Walpole et al, 2009). Replication was defined as the presence of at least two replicates (i.e., n 2) for at least one tilapia introduction treatment or where the populations of introduced tilapia can be reasonably considered to be distinct from other populations.…”