Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems (BioMonI) DOI Open Access
Nathaly R. Guerrero‐Ramírez,

Claudine Ah‐Peng,

Paulo A. V. Borges

et al.

ARPHA Conference Abstracts, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: May 28, 2025

Oceanic islands contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity and contain many endemic species carrying unique evolutionary functional adaptations that reflect life in isolation (Schrader et al. 2024). For instance, are part of the European Union significantly EU thus essential for reaching targets. To give an example, Canary Islands, representing only 1.5% Spain’s land area, home 50% its (Petit Prudent 2010). Regrettably, also epicenters change, particularly vulnerable anthropogenic disturbances such as introduction non-native species, habitat loss, climate change (Harter 2015, Fernández-Palacios 2021, Dawson 2017, Bellard 2017). Islands majority documented extinctions threatened (Fernández-Palacios 2021). Because their biological uniqueness high vulnerability, powerful monitoring tools needed inform conservation restoration initiatives, ecosystem managers, policy-makers, other stakeholders about status trends biodiversity. Thus, BioMonI , we building foundations a global, long-term, easily accessible network tailored explicitly pressing needs on islands. This effort aligns with concept Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) developed by Group Earth Observations Observation Network (GEO BON) offer standardized framework tracking across spatial temporal scales. Specifically, are: elucidating spatiotemporal (e.g. Borges (2025)), including elusive dimensions biodiversity, broadening spectrum integrating perspectives; mobilizing existing data, identifying gaps, co-designing work-flows strengthen (existing) efforts, developing harmonized scheme, working make information archipelagos researchers, citizen scientists, (non-)governmental organizations public institutions. do that, reviewing current past schemes (2018)); leveraging long-term palaeoecological investigation natural archives; emerging genetic tools; assembling BioMonI-Plot, vegetation plot understand change; providing informatics e-infrastructures; scaling up structure functioning using remote sensing, macroecological modeling, future scenarios. The team includes Holger Kreft, Nathaly Guerrero, Wolf Wildpret at University Göttingen (Germany), Bernd Lenzner, Franz Essl, Fabio Mologni Vienna (Austria), Paulo A. V. Borges, Rosalina Gabriel, Leila Morgado, Rui Bentos Elias Azores (Portugal), Lea de Nascimento, José Maria Fernández-Palacios, Rüdiger Otto La Laguna (Spain), Clara Zemp, Samantha Suter, Vladimir Wingate, Giorgia Camperio Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Claudine Ah-Peng Dominique Strasberg Réunion (France), Jairo Patiño Brent Emerson Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain) Patrick Weigelt Radboud (Netherlands).

Language: Английский

Biodiversity monitoring of island ecosystems (BioMonI) DOI Open Access
Nathaly R. Guerrero‐Ramírez,

Claudine Ah‐Peng,

Paulo A. V. Borges

et al.

ARPHA Conference Abstracts, Journal Year: 2025, Volume and Issue: 8

Published: May 28, 2025

Oceanic islands contribute disproportionately to global biodiversity and contain many endemic species carrying unique evolutionary functional adaptations that reflect life in isolation (Schrader et al. 2024). For instance, are part of the European Union significantly EU thus essential for reaching targets. To give an example, Canary Islands, representing only 1.5% Spain’s land area, home 50% its (Petit Prudent 2010). Regrettably, also epicenters change, particularly vulnerable anthropogenic disturbances such as introduction non-native species, habitat loss, climate change (Harter 2015, Fernández-Palacios 2021, Dawson 2017, Bellard 2017). Islands majority documented extinctions threatened (Fernández-Palacios 2021). Because their biological uniqueness high vulnerability, powerful monitoring tools needed inform conservation restoration initiatives, ecosystem managers, policy-makers, other stakeholders about status trends biodiversity. Thus, BioMonI , we building foundations a global, long-term, easily accessible network tailored explicitly pressing needs on islands. This effort aligns with concept Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) developed by Group Earth Observations Observation Network (GEO BON) offer standardized framework tracking across spatial temporal scales. Specifically, are: elucidating spatiotemporal (e.g. Borges (2025)), including elusive dimensions biodiversity, broadening spectrum integrating perspectives; mobilizing existing data, identifying gaps, co-designing work-flows strengthen (existing) efforts, developing harmonized scheme, working make information archipelagos researchers, citizen scientists, (non-)governmental organizations public institutions. do that, reviewing current past schemes (2018)); leveraging long-term palaeoecological investigation natural archives; emerging genetic tools; assembling BioMonI-Plot, vegetation plot understand change; providing informatics e-infrastructures; scaling up structure functioning using remote sensing, macroecological modeling, future scenarios. The team includes Holger Kreft, Nathaly Guerrero, Wolf Wildpret at University Göttingen (Germany), Bernd Lenzner, Franz Essl, Fabio Mologni Vienna (Austria), Paulo A. V. Borges, Rosalina Gabriel, Leila Morgado, Rui Bentos Elias Azores (Portugal), Lea de Nascimento, José Maria Fernández-Palacios, Rüdiger Otto La Laguna (Spain), Clara Zemp, Samantha Suter, Vladimir Wingate, Giorgia Camperio Neuchâtel (Switzerland), Claudine Ah-Peng Dominique Strasberg Réunion (France), Jairo Patiño Brent Emerson Spanish National Research Council (CSIC, Spain) Patrick Weigelt Radboud (Netherlands).

Language: Английский

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