Essential Biodiversity Variables

By Henrique M. Pereira, Simon Ferrier, M. Walters, G. Geller, Rob H. G. Jongman, R. Scholes, M. W. Bruford, N. Brummitt, Stuart H. M. Butchart, A. Cardoso and 21 more. Science, 2013

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Subfields: Ecological Modeling, Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change

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Earth observation as a tool for tracking progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets (2015, neutral): “In an attempt to overcome some of these challenges and assist in the monitoring of targets in the future the ‘Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network’ (GEO BON) has proposed a set of candidate ‘Essential Biodiversity Variables’ (EBV) (Pereira et al. 2013).”
Changes in the composition and distribution of alien plants in South Africa: An update from the Southern African Plant Invaders Atlas (2017, background): “Introduction There has been an increasing emphasis on developing standard metrics to measure and report biodiversity change (Pereira et al. 2013).”
Exploring connections among nature, biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health and well-being: Opportunities to enhance health and biodiversity conservation ☆ (2015, background): “…from surgery/illness/ trauma (Ulrich, 1984) Improved addiction recovery (Bennett et al., 1998) Reduced cardiovascular and respiratory disease [(Pereira et al., 2013a; Richardson and Mitchell, 2010)–men only] Reduced pulse/heart rate (Cracknell, 2013; Tsunetsugu et al., 2013; Lee et al.,…”
Improving the forecast for biodiversity under climate change (2016, background): “Already, the Group on Earth Observations– Biodiversity Observation Network is developing a list of essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) for monitoring global biodiversity (25) and isworking to address monitoring gaps (19).”
A quantitative review of abundance-based species distribution models (2021, background): “Modelling species’ occurrence has helped predict the distribution and erosion of biodiversity under unprecedented rates of environmental change (Pereira et al. 2013, Kissling et al. 2018, Jetz et al. 2019).”
Applicability of the PROSPECT model for estimating protein and cellulose + lignin in fresh leaves (2015, background): “Leaf protein, cellulose and lignin provide critical information about many biochemical processes, such as photosynthesis, respiration, and litter decomposition (Peterson & Hubbard, 1992).”
Biodiversity redistribution under climate change: Impacts on ecosystems and human well-being (2017, neutral): “Extinction risk from climate change has been widely discussed and contested (38–40), and predictions of extinction risk for the 21st century are considerable (41).”
Integration: the key to implementing the Sustainable Development Goals (2016, background): “Yet, our knowledge of complex systems has enabled the distillation of essential variables which capture major dimensions of change in various systems—for example, essential climate variables and essential biodiversity variables (e.g., Bojinski et al. 2014; Pereira et al. 2013), and more recently, th”
Biodiversity change is uncoupled from species richness trends: Consequences for conservation and monitoring (2018, background): “…such measures, which are available for change in taxonomic (Chao, Chazdon, Colwell, & Shen, 2005; Magurran et al., 2010) or functional composition (Petchey & Gaston, 2002), our emphasis here is primarily on establishing an interpretation framework for monitoring data on biodiversity change that…”