At its meeting on 25 June, the GEOBON Implementation committee endorsed the Freshwater Biodiversity Observation Network (FWBON) as a Thematic Biodiversity Observation Network affiliated with GEOBON. Built on existing regional and global networks, the Freshwater Biodiversity Observation Network (FWBON) will be an important mechanism to collect, standardize and distil freshwater
Graphs to visualize data in ecology: the pilot cases IndexMEED are launched! In May, the IndexMEED consortium organized its first “Data Curation” workshops, aimed at preparing the datasets of voluntary participants for the construction of graphs. Organized at the CESAB (Aix-en-Provence) and the ISCC (Paris), the focus was on data
With the support of the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) of the People’s Republic of China, Nanjing Institute of Environmental Sciences affiliated to MEP has organized approximately 3500 trained biologists, protected area managers and volunteer citizen scientists from over 400 universities, research institutes, conservation agencies and civil societies to get
On 5th July, a significant step forward in biodiversity conservation of the Antarctic and Southern Ocean regions was taken. Monash University, The Government of the Principality of Monaco, the Centre Scientifique de Monaco, and the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research hosted a meeting of biodiversity and Antarctic experts convened for
How Ecosystem and Biodiversity data and knowledge can support the GEO objectives: EU BON’s session at the European GEO Workshop The 11th European GEO Workshop took place between 19-21 June 2017, in Helsinki, Finland, bringing together European stakeholders interested in and actively contributing to the Global Earth Observations System of
Coming to an end, after 4.5 years of hard work and dedicated research, the FP7-funded project EU BON ‘European Biodiversity Observation Network’ (www.eubon.eu) leaves behind a basket of results to support the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) and assists researchers in their future studies. Among the major outcomes of the project
Within the activities of GEO BON’s Ecosystem Function WG, a workshop was held at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin on the 30th-31st of March 2017. The first day was held in a mini-conference format, with scientific talks followed by discussions, covering themes ranging from remote sensing of biodiversity, functional attributes
Scientific, technical and legal experts from around the world gathered at the 3rd workshop of the EU funded Horizon2020 project GLOBIS-B (“GLOBal Infrastructures for Supporting Biodiversity research”, http://www.globis-b.eu/, Amsterdam on 20-22 March 2017). The 21 invited scientific experts discussed requirements for developing the EBV class ‘Species traits’ which can cover
Past decades have seen a growing demand for biodiversity data to inform development decisions at the local to national scale for underpinning global and sub-global assessments (e.g. United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (UN CBD), and National Biodiversity Strategies and Action Plans (NBSAP). The Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBV) concept proposed
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