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Biodiversity monitoring in Europe: user and policy needs
Moersberger, Hannah; Valdez, Jose; Martin, Juliette G. C.; Junker, Jessica; Georgieva, Ivelina; Bauer, Silke; Beja, Pedro; Breeze, Tom D.To achieve the goals of the 2030 Global Biodiversity Framework, the EuropeanBiodiversity Strategy, and the EU Green Deal, biodiversity monitoring is critical.Monitoring efforts in Europe, however, suffer from gaps and biases in taxon-omy, spatial coverage, and temporal resolution, resulting in fragmented anddisconnected data. To assess user and policy needs in biodiversity monitoring,we employed a four-step use...
Effects of large herbivores on fire regimes and wildfire mitigation
Rouet-Leduc, Julia; Pe'er, Guy; Moreira, Francisco; Bonn, Aletta; Helmer, Wouter; Zadeh, Shahin A.A.Shahsavan; Zizka, Alexander; Plas, Fons van der1. Abandonment of agricultural land is widespread in many parts of the world, leading to shrub and tree encroachment. The increase of flammable plant biomass, that is, fuel load, increases the risk and intensity of wildfires. Fuel reduction by herbivores is a promising management strategy to avoid fuel build-up and mitigate wildfires. However, their effectiveness in mitigating wildfire damage may depend on a ra...
The database of the PREDICTS (Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In C...
Hudson, Lawrence N; Newbold, Tim; Contu, Sara; Hill, Samantha L L; Lysenko, Igor; De Palma, Adriana; Phillips, Helen R P; Alhusseini, Tamera IThe PREDICTS project-Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems (www.predicts.org.uk)-has collated from published studies a large, reasonably representative database of comparable samples of biodiversity from multiple sites that differ in the nature or intensity of human impacts relating to land use. We have used this evidence base to develop global and regional statistical mod...