Henrique M. Pereira‡, Jessi Junker, Néstor Fernández‡, Joachim Maes§, Pedro Beja|, Aletta Bonn¶#‡, Tom Breeze¤, Lluís Brotons«, Helge Bruehlheide», Marcel Buchhorn˄, César Capinha˅, Cher Chow¦, Karolin Dietrich‡, Maria Dornelas¦, Grégoire Duboisˀ, Miguel Fernandez‡, Mark Frenzelˁ, Nikolai Friberg₵, Steffen Fritzℓ, Ivelina Georgievaℓ, Anne Gobin˄, Carlos Guerra‡, Sigrid Haande₵, Sergi Herrando₰, Ute Jandt₱₳, W. Daniel Kissling₴, Ingolf Kühn₣₮‡, Christian Langer‡, Camino Liquete₦, Anne Lyche Solheim₵, David Martí ₭, Juliette G. C. Martinℓ, Annett Masur‡, Ian McCallumℓ, Marit Mjelde₵, Jannicke Moe₵, Hannah Moersberger₲, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez₭, Francisco Moreira‽, Martin Musche₲, Laetitia M. Navarro₩, Alberto Orgiazzi₸, Robert Patchett¦, Lyubomir Penev‡‡§§, Joan Pino||, Gabriela Popova¶¶, Simon Potts##, Anna Ramon₭, Leonard Sandin₵, Joana Santana‽, Anna Sapundzhieva¶¶, Linda Seeℓ, Judy Shamoun-Baranes¤¤, Bruno Smets˄, Pavel Stoev««, Leho Tedersoo»», Liis Tiimann»», Jose Valdez‡, Sara Vallecillo˄˄, Roy H. A. Van Grunsven˅˅, Ruben Van De Kerchove˄, Dani Villero₭, Piero Viscontiℓ, Claudia Weinhold¦¦, Annika M. Zuleger‡Corresponding author: Jessi Junker ( jessica.junker@idiv.de ) © Henrique M. Pereira, Jessi Junker, Néstor Fernández, Joachim Maes, Pedro Beja, Aletta Bonn, Tom Breeze, Lluís Brotons, Helge Bruehlheide, Marcel Buchhorn, César Capinha, Cher Chow, Karolin Dietrich, Maria Dornelas, Grégoire Dubois, Miguel Fernandez, Mark Frenzel, Nikolai Friberg, Steffen Fritz, Ivelina Georgieva, Anne Gobin, Carlos Guerra, Sigrid Haande, Sergi Herrando, Ute Jandt, W. Daniel Kissling, Ingolf Kühn, Christian Langer, Camino Liquete, Anne Lyche Solheim, David Martí , Juliette G. C. Martin, Annett Masur, Ian McCallum, Marit Mjelde, Jannicke Moe, Hannah Moersberger, Alejandra Morán-Ordóñez, Francisco Moreira, Martin Musche, Laetitia M. Navarro, Alberto Orgiazzi, Robert Patchett, Lyubomir Penev, Joan Pino, Gabriela Popova, Simon Potts, Anna Ramon, Leonard Sandin, Joana Santana, Anna Sapundzhieva, Linda See, Judy Shamoun-Baranes, Bruno Smets, Pavel Stoev, Leho Tedersoo, Liis Tiimann, Jose Valdez, Sara Vallecillo, Roy H. A. Van Grunsven, Ruben Van De Kerchove, Dani Villero, Piero Visconti, Claudia Weinhold, Annika M. Zuleger. This is an open access preprint distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Citation:
Pereira HM, Junker J, Fernández N, Maes J, Beja P, Bonn A, Breeze T, Brotons L, Bruehlheide H, Buchhorn M, Capinha C, Chow C, Dietrich K, Dornelas M, Dubois G, Fernandez M, Frenzel M, Friberg N, Fritz S, Georgieva I, Gobin A, Guerra C, Haande S, Herrando S, Jandt U, Kissling WD, Kühn I, Langer C, Liquete C, Lyche Solheim A, Martí D, Martin JGC, Masur A, McCallum I, Mjelde M, Moe J, Moersberger H, Morán-Ordóñez A, Moreira F, Musche M, Navarro LM, Orgiazzi A, Patchett R, Penev L, Pino J, Popova G, Potts S, Ramon A, Sandin L, Santana J, Sapundzhieva A, See L, Shamoun-Baranes J, Smets B, Stoev P, Tedersoo L, Tiimann L, Valdez J, Vallecillo S, Van Grunsven RHA, Van De Kerchove R, Villero D, Visconti P, Weinhold C, Zuleger AM (2022) Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy. ARPHA Preprints. https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e81207 |  |
Observations are key to understand the drivers of biodiversity loss, and the impacts on ecosystem services and ultimately on people. Many EU policies and initiatives demand unbiased, integrated and regularly updated biodiversity and ecosystem service data. However, efforts to monitor biodiversity are spatially and temporally fragmented, taxonomically biased, and lack integration in Europe. EuropaBON aims to bridge this gap by designing an EU-wide framework for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. EuropaBON harnesses the power of modelling essential variables to integrate different reporting streams, data sources, and monitoring schemes. These essential variables provide consistent knowledge about multiple dimensions of biodiversity change across space and time. They can then be analyzed and synthesized to support decision-making at different spatial scales, from the sub-national to the European scale, through the production of indicators and scenarios. To develop essential biodiversity and ecosystem variables workflows that are policy relevant, EuropaBON is built around stakeholder engagement and knowledge exchange (WP2). EuropaBON will work with stakeholders to identify user and policy needs for biodiversity monitoring and investigate the feasibility of setting up a center to coordinate monitoring activities across Europe (WP2). Together with stakeholders, EuropaBON will assess current monitoring efforts to identify gaps, data and workflow bottlenecks, and analyse cost-effectiveness of different schemes (WP3). This will be used to co-design improved monitoring schemes using novel technologies to become more representative temporally, spatially and taxonomically, delivering multiple benefits to users and society (WP4). Finally, EuropaBON will demonstrate in a set of showcases how workflows tailored to the Birds Directive, Habitats Directive, Water Framework Directive, Climate and Restoration Policy, and the Bioeconomy Strategy, can be implemented (WP5).