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Global biodiversity outlook 4 - A mid-term assessment of progress towards the implementation of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020
… Aichi Targets. �e Partnership is coordinated by UNEP-WCMC. Indicator partners include Bioversity International, BirdLife … Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, Food and Agricultural … Parties and in the scientific literature, and makes use of indicator- based statistical extrapolations to 2020 as well …
Mapping Biodiversity Priorities - a practical, science-based approach to national biodiversity assessment and prioritisation to inform strategy and action planning
… biodiversity features. Additional biodiversity data e.g. species, ecological processes Ecological infrastructure or … environment more broadly. Ecosystem threat statusG is an indicator of how threatened ecosystems are, or in other … (as shown here) can provide a simple but powerful indicator of the state of biodiversity. This simple …
Identification and gap analysis of key biodiversity areas : Targets for comprehensive protected area systems
… AZE site holds 13 Critically Endangered and Endangered species wholly restricted to it, more than any other AZE site … for reporting on the “coverage of protected areas” indicator, which was provisionally adopted by the Parties for … such as language groups may be used as an initial indicator of management zones or units (Figure 17a). These …
Managing Natural World Heritage - World Heritage Resource Manual
… of the site itself (e.g. tourism based on rare or iconic species, such as mountain gorillas, or important landscapes … for example it could be argued that forest cover is a good indicator for a forest site inscribed under criteria (ix) or … biodiversity; 3. A method of verification for each indicator, for example through surveys of the values of the …
Explaining Ocean Warming: Causes, scale, effects and consequences
… warming: setting the scene 17 2 Cascading effects - from species to ecosystems to services 47 3. … and Gattuso, 2014; Yang et al., 2015). Another significant indicator is the development of three chapters specifically … in the North Atlantic, after such a long gap, could be an indicator of the scale and speed of changes that are taking …
Evaluating effectiveness : A framework for assessing management effectiveness of protected areas
… project teams and action groups, focusing in particular on species and biodiversity conservation and the management of … Ecosystem level Species level (rare and threatened, indicator species, popular species, economically or socially … assessed; and methods to be used in measuring the indicator. Some examples of attributes, indicators and …
A moving target : Genetic resources and options for tracking and monitoring their international flows
… CITES Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora CSOLP certificate of source, … as a valuable stage in the development process and an indicator of commercial “intent”; and as such, consider the … evidence for other requirements (such as serving as an indicator of “corporate social responsibility” in countries …
Voluntary Guidelines on National Forest Monitoring
… and number; biomass and/or other allometric functions for species or species groups; analysis of different error … The translation of “information needs” into “observable indicator variables” will be partly a research issue and … clear definitions need to be established, as well as an indicator-based model, so as to allow the required indicator …
State of Biodiversity in Asia and the Pacific
… cent of its land area. It is also host to certain wildlife species unique to the region such as the giant panda, the … Pacific recorded the world’s highest number of threatened species. Many of the most serious problems are to be found in … with the highest numbers of threatened animal and plant species (figure I) are to be found. Over the period …