SCIENCE publication about EBVs

SCIENCE publication about EBVs

February 20, 2015

BavForest_Hyspex_EcoSens_org_streifen_sued_29_61_C

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

follow us and share it on:

you may also like:

A Weekend together: Where the Institute Talks About Itself

A Weekend together: Where the Institute Talks About Itself

Once a year, or at least that's the idea, the Institute of Geography packs up and heads out to a remote place, this time Burg Rothenfels, an old castle not far from Würzburg, to spend a weekend doing something that almost never happens in the day to day grind:...

Graduation Day: EORC and EAGLE Celebrate at the Faculty Ceremony

Graduation Day: EORC and EAGLE Celebrate at the Faculty Ceremony

Last week the faculty held its formal graduation ceremony, and EORC and EAGLE were well represented on stage. Two of our PhD students, Dr. Ariane Droin and Dr. Johannes Mast, both joint the ceremony for their doctoral degrees, and it was great to see them walk across...

AI chatbots in research and teaching

AI chatbots in research and teaching

Let's be honest about something: AI chatbots are not coming to our courses and our research. They are already here, and they have been for a while. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, Gemini, whatever your tool of choice is, our students have been using these things for...

Drone manufacturer Wingtra visits EORC

Drone manufacturer Wingtra visits EORC

Is it possible to combine the efficiency of a fixed-wing drone with the precision of a laser scanner? That question brought researchers from EORC together with Wingtra, a Swiss company designing and manufacturing fixed-wing UAS, to exchange on UAS research and discuss...

How We Learned to Fly: The Story Behind UAS Research at EORC

How We Learned to Fly: The Story Behind UAS Research at EORC

Every research group that's ever bought a drone has a story about the first one it lost. We're no different. So let's just get that out of the way up front: this is the inside story of how UAS (Unoccupied Aerial System) research grew up at the Earth Observation...

Share This