Sentences with phrase «global biodiversity monitoring»
Satellites can help deliver such information, and in 10 years» time, global biodiversity monitoring from space could be a reality, but only if ecologists and space agencies agree on a priority list of satellite - based data that is essential for tracking changes in biodiversity.
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Dr Nathalie Pettorelli, co-author of the comment and researcher at ZSL, said: «With global wildlife populations halved in just 40 years, there is a real urgency to identify variables that both capture key aspects of biodiversity change and can be monitored consistently and globally.
In a move that previously proved successful in helping to monitor climate change on a global scale, scientists believe that space technology could help track biodiversity across the planet.
«So far biodiversity monitoring has been mostly species - based, and this means that some of the changes happening on a global - scale may be missed.
This work is a product of the Global Ecosystems Monitoring (GEM) network (http://gem.tropicalforests.ox.ac.uk) and the RAINFOR and ABERG research consortia, and was funded by grants to Y.M. and O.L.P. from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation to the Amazon Forest Inventory Network (RAINFOR) and the Andes Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research Group (ABERG), and grants from the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NE / D01025X / 1, NE / D014174 / 1, NE / F002149 / 1 and NE / J011002 / 1), the NERC AMAZONICA consortium grant (NE / F005776 / 1) and the EU FP7 Amazalert (282664) GEOCARBON (283080) projects.
He proposed a list of new tasks for the water research and management community: develop global water assessment capabilities on a par with the current IPCC assessments for climate; expand monitoring and models; introduce a regular reporting system similar to that of the IPCC; carry out a comprehensive freshwater biodiversity survey to act as a benchmark; provide technical tools such as databases, scenarios and conflict research to reconcile competing water uses; and expand the focus on local basics and watersheds to a global basis.