Tag: Essential Ecosystem Services Variables
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GEO Week 2021
GEO Week presented activities taking place under the GEO work programme. This week-long event (22-26 November 2021) highlighted how earth…
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Climate-influenced nutrient flows and threats to the biodiversity of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BZ-SDG)
The Climate-influenced Nutrient Flows and Threats to the Biodiversity of the Belize Barrier Reef Reserve System (BZ-SDG) project, supported by…
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The growing promise of community-based monitoring and citizen science
Over recent decades, community-based environmental monitoring (often called “co-created citizen science”) has exploded in popularity. A special section in BioScience…
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GEO BON’s Participation in the Third Meeting of the Open-Ended Working Group (OEWG 3)
The Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) continued its meetings attended by Parties and observers during the summer of 2021. The…
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Biology students make lemonade out of pandemic lemons by improving accessibility of genetic data from wild animal and plant species
Students and biodiversity scientists whose research was upended by the pandemic held an online datathon to attach dates and locations…
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GEO BON welcomes Jean-Michel Lord as Developer and Scrum Master
It is a rare chance to contribute to the preservation of the ecosystems as a software engineer. I am more…
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Global and national trends, gaps, and opportunities in documenting and monitoring species distributions
New publication by Ruth Y. Oliver, Carsten Meyer, Ajay Ranipeta, Kevin Winner, and Walter Jetz, in PLOS Biology The post-2020…
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Monitoring the nature crisis using space-borne platforms
In our Digital Age, human beings are confronted with two major environmental crises: climate change and biodiversity loss. The first…
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Acoustic detection of regionally rare bird species through deep convolutional neural networks
Bioacoustic monitoring with machine learning (ML) models can provide valuable insights for informed decision-making in conservation efforts. In this study,…