Biology:Essential Biodiversity Variables

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Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) is a putative set of parameters intended to be the minimum set of broadly agreed upon necessary and sufficient biodiversity variables for at least national to global monitoring, researching, and forecasting of biodiversity.[1] They are being developed by an interdisciplinary group of governmental and academic research partners. The initiative aims for a harmonised global biodiversity monitoring system. EBVs would be used to inform biodiversity change indicators, such as the CBD Biodiversity Indicators for the Aichi Targets.[2] The concept is partly based on the earlier Essential Climate Variables.[3][4] It can be generalised as the minimum set of variables for describing and predicting a system's state and dynamics. Areas with more developed EV lists include climate, ocean, and biodiversity.[5]

EBV Classes / Categories

The current candidate EBVs occupy six classes of Essential Biodiversity Variable: genetic composition, species populations, species traits, community composition, ecosystem structure, and ecosystem function.[1] Within each class are a few to several variables.

EBV Class EBV Notes
Genetic composition Co-ancestry
Allelic diversity
Population genetic differentiation
Breed and variety diversity
Species populations Species distribution Addressed in.[6] Track from space.[7]
Population abundance Addressed in.[6]
Population age / size structure
Species traits

(subject of [8])

Phenology Track from space.[7] GlobDiversity RS-enabled EBV (land surface phenology).[9]
Body mass Vegetation height—track from space.[7]
Natal dispersal distance
Migratory behaviour
Demographic traits
Physiological traits Track from space.[7] GlobDiversity RS-enabled EBV (canopy chlorophyll concentration).[9]
Community composition Taxonomic diversity
Species interactions
Ecosystem function Net primary production Track from space.[7]
Secondary production
Nutrient retention
Disturbance regime Track from space.[7] Should not be a candidate EBV, due to being non-biological in nature.[10]
Ecosystem structure Habitat structure
Ecosystem extent and fragmentation Track from space.[7] GlobDiversity RS-enabled EBV (fragmentation).[9]
Ecosystem composition by functional type

Associated projects and organisations

As of 2017, participants in the project consist of the GlobDiversity project (funded by the European Space Agency)[11] under GEO BON (Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network; a cooperative project of international universities),[12] and the GLOBIS-B project (Global Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity Research; funded by the EU Horizon 2020 programme)[13]

Development

The concept was first proposed in 2012[14][15] and developed in the following years.[3][5][7]

The GLOBIS-B global cooperation project, aimed to advance the challenge of practical implementation of EBVs by supporting interoperability and cooperation activities among diverse biodiversity infrastructures, started in 2015.[16] The GlobDiversity project of GEO BON, led by the University of Zurich, started in 2017, focusing on specification and engineering of three RS-enabled EBVs.[9][17]

The scope and screening of potential variables is under ongoing discussion.[10][18][19][8][20][21]

This includes definition of the species distribution EBV and population abundance EBV, operationalisation of the EBV framework, data and tools for building EBV data products, workflow for building EBV data products, metadata and data sharing standards;[6] and possible integration of abiotic variables (e.g. those emphasised in the Ecosystem Integrity framework) with biotic variables (emphasised in the EBV framework) to achieve comprehensive ecosystem monitoring.[22]

"EBV data products" refers to the end product in the EBV information supply chain, from raw observations, to EBV-usable data, to EBV-ready data, to EBV data products. Each of these three types of EBV datasets could be used to produce indicators.[6] Data sources for EBVs are categorised into four types: extensive and intensive monitoring schemes, ecological field studies, and remote sensing.[23] Each have their own often complementary properties, implying that data integration will be important for creation of representative EBVs, as well as identifying and filling data gaps.

References

  1. ↑ Jump up to: 1.0 1.1 "What are EBVs?" (in en-GB). GEO BON. 2015-01-26. http://geobon.org/essential-biodiversity-variables/what-are-ebvs/. 
  2. ↑ "Aichi Biodiversity Targets" (in en). https://www.cbd.int/sp/targets/. 
  3. ↑ Jump up to: 3.0 3.1 Pereira, H. M.; Ferrier, S.; Walters, M.; Geller, G. N.; Jongman, R. H. G.; Scholes, R. J.; Bruford, M. W.; Brummitt, N. et al. (2013-01-18). "Essential Biodiversity Variables" (in en). Science 339 (6117): 277–278. doi:10.1126/science.1229931. ISSN 0036-8075. PMID 23329036. Bibcode: 2013Sci...339..277P. 
  4. ↑ "Essential Climate Variables" (in en). World Meteorological Organization. 2017-06-27. https://public-old.wmo.int/en/programmes/global-climate-observing-system/essential-climate-variables. 
  5. ↑ Jump up to: 5.0 5.1 Antonio, Bombelli; Ivette, Serral (2015) (in en). D2.2. EVs current status in different communities and way to move forward. https://ddd.uab.cat/record/146882?ln=en. 
  6. ↑ Jump up to: 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Kissling, W. Daniel; Ahumada, Jorge A.; Bowser, Anne; Fernandez, Miguel; Fernández, Néstor; García, Enrique Alonso; Guralnick, Robert P.; Isaac, Nick J. B. et al. (2018). "Building essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale" (in en). Biological Reviews 93 (1): 600–625. doi:10.1111/brv.12359. ISSN 1469-185X. PMID 28766908. 
  7. ↑ Jump up to: 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 7.5 7.6 7.7 Skidmore, Andrew K.; Pettorelli, Nathalie; Coops, Nicholas C.; Geller, Gary N.; Hansen, Matthew; Lucas, Richard; Mücher, Caspar A.; O'Connor, Brian et al. (2015-07-23). "Environmental science: Agree on biodiversity metrics to track from space" (in en). Nature 523 (7561): 403–405. doi:10.1038/523403a. PMID 26201582. Bibcode: 2015Natur.523..403S. 
  8. ↑ Jump up to: 8.0 8.1 "GLOBIS-B Essential Biodiversity Variables Workshop on Species Traits held in Amsterdam GLOBIS-B" (in nl). http://www.globis-b.eu/news/10/globis-b_essential_biodiversity_variables_workshop_on_species_traits_held_in_amsterdam.html. 
  9. ↑ Jump up to: 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "The GlobDiversity project has started" (in en-GB). GEO BON. 2017-11-01. http://geobon.org/the-globdiversity-project-has-started/. 
  10. ↑ Jump up to: 10.0 10.1 Schmeller, Dirk S.; Mihoub, Jean-Baptiste; Bowser, Anne; Arvanitidis, Christos; Costello, Mark J.; Fernandez, Miguel; Geller, Gary N.; Hobern, Donald et al. (2017-11-01). "An operational definition of essential biodiversity variables" (in en). Biodiversity and Conservation 26 (12): 2967–2972. doi:10.1007/s10531-017-1386-9. ISSN 0960-3115. 
  11. ↑ "The GlobDiversity Project". http://www.globdiversity.net/the-globdiversity-project/. 
  12. ↑ "Group on earth Observations". 2018-01-17. http://geobon.org/about/vision-goals/. 
  13. ↑ "GLOBIS-B". http://www.globis-b.eu/. 
  14. ↑ "Frascati Workshop Essential Biodiversity Variables Term of Reference". http://old.esaconferencebureau.com/docs/default-source/12m24doc/ebv-workshop-tor-.pdf?sfvrsn=2. 
  15. ↑ "Report EBV Meeting Frascati 26-29 February 2012". http://www.gfg2.eu/sites/gfg2.eu/files/Report%20EBV%20meeting%20Frascati.pdf. 
  16. ↑ Kissling, W. Daniel; Hardisty, Alex; García, Enrique Alonso; Santamaria, Monica; Leo, Francesca De; Pesole, Graziano; Freyhof, Jörg; Manset, David et al. (2015-07-03). "Towards global interoperability for supporting biodiversity research on essential biodiversity variables (EBVs)". Biodiversity 16 (2–3): 99–107. doi:10.1080/14888386.2015.1068709. ISSN 1488-8386. https://pure.uva.nl/ws/files/2499560/170802_Towards_global_interoperability_for_supporting_biodiversity_research.pdf. 
  17. ↑ "GEO BON Strategy for Development of EBVs". http://geobon.org/Downloads/Other_documents/Essential_Biodiversity_Variable_Strategy_v2.pdf. 
  18. ↑ "GLOBIS-B contributes to a better definition of EBVs GLOBIS-B" (in nl). http://www.globis-b.eu/news/11/globis-b_contributes_to_a_better_definition_of_ebvs.html. 
  19. ↑ Brummitt, Neil; Regan, Eugenie C.; Weatherdon, Lauren V.; Martin, Corinne S.; Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.; Rocchini, Duccio; Gavish, Yoni; Haase, Peter et al. (2017-09-01). "Taking stock of nature: Essential biodiversity variables explained". Biological Conservation 213: 252–255. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.006. ISSN 0006-3207. http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/108397/1/Brummitt%20et%20al%20-%20Biol%20Cons%20-%20Final.pdf. 
  20. ↑ Turak, Eren; Harrison, Ian; Dudgeon, David; Abell, Robin; Bush, Alex; Darwall, William; Finlayson, C. Max; Ferrier, Simon et al. (2017-09-01). "Essential Biodiversity Variables for measuring change in global freshwater biodiversity". Biological Conservation 213: 272–279. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.09.005. ISSN 0006-3207. 
  21. ↑ Vihervaara, Petteri; Auvinen, Ari-Pekka; Mononen, Laura; Törmä, Markus; Ahlroth, Petri; Anttila, Saku; Böttcher, Kristin; Forsius, Martin et al. (2017-04-01). "How Essential Biodiversity Variables and remote sensing can help national biodiversity monitoring". Global Ecology and Conservation 10: 43–59. doi:10.1016/j.gecco.2017.01.007. ISSN 2351-9894. 
  22. ↑ Haase, Peter; Tonkin, Jonathan D.; Stoll, Stefan; Burkhard, Benjamin; Frenzel, Mark; Geijzendorffer, Ilse R.; Häuser, Christoph; Klotz, Stefan et al. (2018-02-01). "The next generation of site-based long-term ecological monitoring: Linking essential biodiversity variables and ecosystem integrity". Science of the Total Environment 613-614: 1376–1384. doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2017.08.111. ISSN 0048-9697. PMID 29898505. Bibcode: 2018ScTEn.613.1376H. 
  23. ↑ Proença, Vânia; Martin, Laura Jane; Pereira, Henrique Miguel; Fernandez, Miguel; McRae, Louise; Belnap, Jayne; Böhm, Monika; Brummitt, Neil et al. (2017-09-01). "Global biodiversity monitoring: From data sources to Essential Biodiversity Variables". Biological Conservation 213: 256–263. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2016.07.014. ISSN 0006-3207. 



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