ARPHA Preprints, doi: 10.3897/arphapreprints.e103765
D3.3 Identification of current monitoring workflows and bottlenecks
expand article infoAlejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Pedro Beja§, Sara Fraixedas, Sergi Herrando, Jessi Junker|, W. Daniel Kissling, Maria Lumbierres, Anne Lyche Solheim#, Gabriel Miret, Jannicke Moe#, Francisco Moreira¤, Henrique Pereira|, Joana Santana¤, Dani Villero«, Lluís Brotons»
‡ CREAF, Barcelona, Spain§ CIBIO-Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos, Universidade do Porto, Vairão, Portugal| iDiv, Leipzig, Germany¶ University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands# Norwegian Institute for Water Reserach, Oslo, Norway¤ BIOPOLIS-CIBIO/InBIO, Porto, Portugal« Forest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona, Spain» orest Science and Technology Centre of Catalonia, Solsona, Spain
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Abstract
The EuropaBON project seeks to design a European Biodiversity Observation Network to monitor the status and trends of European biodiversity and ecosystems in the coming years. To accomplish this, the project has brought together biodiversity monitoring experts and other relevant stakeholders from various sectors (policy, NGO, academia, business, citizen science) from all over Europe. These have agreed on a list of 70 Essential Biodiversity Variables (Deliverable 4.1) that should enable tracking the progress of biodiversity-oriented policy instruments and provide information on changes in biodiversity at different levels.
Keywords
biodiversity, environment, ecosystems, monitoring, observation, European Union