1. Challenges and opportunities for the Bolivian Biodiversity Observation Network
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Ramiro Pablo López, R Mónica Moraes, Luis F. Aguirre, Alexandra Marques, Healy Hamilton, Mauricio Ocampo, Alvaro J. Aguilar-Kirigin, Marisol Toledo, A. Bruno Miranda-Calle, Marcos F. Terán, Tatiana Miranda, Lilian Apaza-Vargas, Florian Wolf, Rosa Isela Meneses, Stephan G. Beck, Kathia Rivero, Soraya Barrera, Juan Carlos Ledezma, N. Paola Flores-Saldana, James Aparicio, Manuel J. Macía, Silvia C. Gallegos, Yara S. Higueras, Alfredo F. Fuentes, Renate Seidel, J. Miguel Limachi, Leslie Cayola, Carlos Zambrana-Torrelio, Oscar Plata, Nataly Ascarrunz, Liliana Soria, Gabriel Arellano, Steffen Reichle, Héctor Cabrera-Condarco, R. Fernando Molina-Rodriguez, Henrique M. Pereira, M. Isabel Loza, M. Isabel Moya-Diaz, Amira Apaza-Quevedo, Miguel Fernández, Marcela Alvear, Consuelo Campos-Villanueva, Michael Kessler, M. Isabel Gómez, F. Santiago Zenteno-Ruiz, M. Carolina García-Lino, Laetitia M. Navarro, Eric Armijo, and Humberto L. Perotto-Baldivieso
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Global and Planetary Change ,Ecology ,Process (engineering) ,business.industry ,Environmental resource management ,Biodiversity ,Identification (information) ,Geography ,Global Earth Observation System of Systems ,Country level ,Environmental protection ,business ,Baseline (configuration management) ,Nature and Landscape Conservation ,Group on Earth Observations - Abstract
Pragmatic methods to assess the status of biodiversity at multiple scales are required to support conservation decision-making. At the intersection of several major biogeographic zones, Bolivia has extraordinary potential to develop a monitoring strategy aligned with the objectives of the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON). Bolivia, a GEO Observer since 2005, is already working on the adequacy of national earth observations towards the objectives of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS). However, biodiversity is still an underrepresented component in this initiative. The integration of biodiversity into Bolivia’s GEO framework would confirm the need for a country level biodiversity monitoring strategy, fundamental to assess the progress towards the 2020 Aichi targets. Here we analyse and discuss two aspects of the process of developing such a strategy: (1) identification of taxonomic, temporal and spatial coverage of biodiversity data to detect both ava...
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- 2015
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