ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e103657
D3.2 Report on gaps and important new areas for monitoring in Europe
expand article infoJoana Santana‡, Miguel Porto§, Lluís Brotons|, Jessi Junker, W. Daniel Kissling#, Maria Lumbierres#, Jannicke Moe¤, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez«, Henrique Pereira, Anne Lyche Solheim», Dani Villero˄, Francisco Moreira‡, Pedro Beja‡
‡ BIOPOLIS-CIBIO/InBIO, Porto, Portugal§ Sociedade Portuguesa de Botânica, Lisbon, Portugal| Centre Tecnològic Forestal de Catalunya, Solsona, Spain¶ iDiv, Leipzig, Germany# University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands¤ Norwegian Institute for Water Reserach (NIVA), Oslo, Norway« CREAF, Barcelona, Spain» Norsk institutt for vannforskning (NIVA), Oslo, Norway˄ Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia (CTFC), Solsona, Spain

Corresponding author: Joana Santana ( joanafsantana@cibio.up.pt )

© Joana Santana, Miguel Porto, Lluís Brotons, Jessi Junker, W. Daniel Kissling, Maria Lumbierres, Jannicke Moe, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Henrique Pereira, Anne Lyche Solheim, Dani Villero, Francisco Moreira, Pedro Beja.
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Citation: Santana J, Porto M, Brotons L, Junker J, Kissling WD, Lumbierres M, Moe J, Morán-Ordóñez A, Pereira H, Lyche Solheim A, Villero D, Moreira F, Beja P (2023) D3.2 Report on gaps and important new areas for monitoring in Europe. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e103657
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Abstract

The co-design of a European Observatory Observation Network requires information on the existing monitoring capacity in Europe, including the quantity and quality of the data available to generate the Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) identified in Task 4.1 at the spatial- and temporal resolutions desired by users and policy. In this document, we provide a framework to identify the main monitoring gaps to produce European-wide EBVs. Specifically, we provide a detailed and spatially explicit information (country-level) on monitoring gaps for the production of 44 EBVs by analyzing the data flowing to current and past monitoring integration initiatives according to the defined criteria (country coverage; taxonomic/ecosystem coverage; standardized monitoring; time-series data; long-term monitoring; ongoing monitoring; sampling frequency; spatial coverage density; minimum sampling unit; raw data available). Results are presented in factsheets for each EBV and summarized across EBV classes and realms.

Keywords
biodiversity, monitoring, observation, data gaps, ecosystems