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Keynote - EBV & EESV Development

Anne Larigauderie: IPBES: Science and Evidence for Biodiversity Policy and Action
Becky Chaplin-Kramer: Securing Critical Natural Capital: Science and Policy Frontiers for Essential Ecosystem Service Variables
Melodie Mc Geoch: What monitoring invasive species has taught us about governing biodiversity knowledge
Carlo Rondinini: The InSiGHTS framework for modelling species’ Area of Habitat

Panel Discussion

Haigen Xu: The Design and Operation of China Biodiversity Observation Network
Tom Christensen: The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme – The Arctic BON; Monitoring and reporting changes in Arctic Biodiversity and ecosystems
Lucy Waruingi: EBV to support National Reporting on Aichi Targets in Africa (The case for Kenya)

ORAL/ FLASH

OSC1 - Working Groups: EBV classes & EESVs

Session 1: Ecosystem Function

Jasper Slingsby: Using near-term ecological forecasting of satellite data to link traits, communities and ecosystem function
Jorge Ari Noriega: Cattle intensification as a global driver of diversity and ecosystem services loss in pastures around the world
Pedro J. Leitão: Ecosystem Disturbance: progress towards an Essential Biodiversity Variable

Session 3: Ecosystem Structure

Babak Naimi: Monitoring the relative magnitude of fragmentation (RMF) at a global scale
Nikolai Knapp: Structure metrics to generalize biomass estimation from lidar across forest types from different continents

Session 4: Community Composition

Lim, Po Teen: Exploring the Diversity of Zooxanthellae associated with Corals of Perhentian Island Marine Park by Deep Sequencing Approach
Ute Schmiedel: Seasonal climate and game density drive life-form composition in the southern Kalahari – results of 15 years of vegetation monitoring

Session 5: Species Populations

Maria Lumbierres: Updated Area of Habitat models to map global biodiversity of terrestrial mammals and birds

Session 7: Genetic Composition

Anna J. MacDonald: Genomic resources for Australian mammal conservation: The Oz Mammals Genomics Initiative
Cristiano Vernesi: G-BiKE (Genomic Biodiversity Knowledge for resilient Ecosystems) network: rationale and activities
Leaw Chui Pin: Distribution and population genetic diversity of the giant clams, Tridacna squamosa and T. maxima in the Perhentian Islands Marine Park, Malaysia
Alexandra Pavlova: Strong benefit of genetic admixture on survival and reproduction of an endangered fish during restoration of a previously extinct population
Leona J. Michèle Milec: Towards globally applicable genetic indicators for fisheries management

OSC2 - Working Groups: EBV classes & EESVs

Session 1: Ecosystem Function

Bruno Smets: Copernicus new 10m Vegetation Phenology to monitor ecosystems

Session 2: Ecosystem Services

Maria Vallejos: An expert-based reference list of variables for characterizing and monitoring social-ecological systems
Jonna Heuschele: Use and supply of cultural ecosystem services in Bavarian Forest National Park
Anne-Julie Rochette: African Man and Biosphere Reserves: guidance to assess ecosystem services. A manual for African BR managers

Session 3: Ecosystem Structure

Gary Geller: GEO BON’s Ecosystem Structure Essential Biodiversity Variables Are Complete: Here’s what they look like and why
Carsten Meyer: Global Data On The Annual Extents Of 69 Terrestrial, Marine, And Freshwater Ecosystem Types Over Three Decades
Roger G. Sayre: A New Map of World Terrestrial Ecosystems at 250 m – Ecosystem Extent Data for the Planet
Oluwatobi Emmanuel Olaniyi: Identifying prioritized forest patches for wildlife connectivity in two urban wetlands of Peninsular Malaysia using dual-stage landscape patches' prioritization approach

Session 4: Community Composition

Cesar A.M.M. Cordeiro: Temporal changes in benthic community composition and functional space in South Atlantic rocky reefs
Mitchell Rider: Evaluating the use of underwater passive acoustics for assessing soundscape diversity
Kevin Leempoel: DNA collected from environmental samples reveals the diversity of extant mammals in a suburban reserve in California

Session 5: Species Populations

Chloé Orland: Recovering the critically endangered black abalone using environmental genomics
Malin Pinsky: Species on the Move in the Ocean: Monitoring and Indicators to Inform Policy
Adrian Regos: Incorporating remotely sensed ecosystem functional attributes into species distribution models to support biodiversity monitoring
Charles van Rees: Invasive Species Management Needs Technological Integration

Session 7: Genetic Composition

RECORDING (except ORAL: Maggie E. Hunter)

OSC3 - BONs & TFs: Freshwater, Marine, Soil BON & national/regional BONs, BON Development and Task Forces

Session 1: Freshwater BON

Mojgan Zare Shahraki: The structure of fish and macroinvertebrate communities in the Karun River system, Iran
Aventino Kasangaki: The link between human activities, water quality and benthic macroinvertebrates in the headwaters of Lake Edward Basin, Uganda: Management lessons
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber: The Freshwater Information Platform: an online network facilitating the work of FWBON

Session 3: BON Development

Hiroyuki Muraoka: The Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network: 10-year achievements and new strategies to 2030
Peter Kullberg: Towards the network of national biodiversity observatories – the Finnish Ecosystem Observatory

Session 5: EBV Data

Quentin Groom: Rapid mobilization of evidence to improve decision-making on invasive species
Viviana Brambilla: BioTIME: project development and updates
Guillaume Body: Using the Darwin core standard for EBV estimated records in Enetwild

Session 6: Remote Sensing

Gary Geller: Why CEOS Is Important to GEO BON: The CEOS Biodiversity Activity
Vardis Tsontos: CEOS Ocean Variable Enabling Research & Applications for GEO (COVERAGE): A Prototype Big Data Platform for Integrated Access to Interagency Environmental and Biological Data in Support of MBON
Norbert Jürgens: The regional SASSCAL Biodiversity Observation Network in Southern Africa
Chenyang Wei: Spatial-temporal dynamics of alpine treeline ecotones in the western United States under climate change
Adrian Pascual: Using the GEDI satellite lidar mission with nationwide airborne laser scanning surveys in fast changing forest ecosystem

OSC4 - BONs & TFs: Freshwater, Marine, Soil BON & national/regional BONs, BON Development and Task Forces

Session 1: Freshwater BON

José Barquín Ortiz: Monitoring global change effects on mountain aquatic ecosystems: strengths and weaknesses
Magnolia Longo: An ecological integrity index for páramo lagoons based on biological indicators and habitat: a case study of La Virginia lagoon, páramo Sumapaz, Colombia
Angélica Batista-Morales: Biomonitoring, socio-ecological systems, freshwater, Colombia, indicators, Response-Pressure-StatusBenefit mode

Session 2: Marine BON

Zacharie Sohou: Analysis of marine fisheries statistics in Benin and potential links between fisheries variability and sea surface temperature
Muhamad Darif & Nur Aqilah: The study of photosynthetic parameters of microalgae from Penang intertidal areas using Water-PAM and Pocket-PAM
Mark J. Costello: Stratifying ocean sampling to optimise monitoring of biodiversity
Maria Gabriela Palomo: A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole-to-Pole of the Americas (MBON Pole to Pole) in support of conservation post 2020
Nicolas Moity: Cold or warm? That is the question: EOV monitoring in the Galapagos Marine Reserve by a citizen science observation network
Masahiro Nakaoka: Development of Asia-Pacific Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (AP MBON)
Isabel Sousa Pinto: MBON: Marine Biodiversity Observation Network: Current status and action plan
Frank E. Muller-Karger: Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) contributions from the US
Jonatha Giddens: Observing life in the deep-ocean with National Geographic´s deep-sea camera system; a low-cost and scalable approach
Frank E. Muller-Karger: MBON: Addressing the Need for Best Practices for the Complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs)
Andre Silva Barreto: Integrating data from researchers, industry, and environmental licensing: SIMMAM a success case for marine mammals in Brazilian waters

Joint Session 3: BON Development

Gonzalo Bravo: Machine learning applications to monitor marine Essential Biodiversity Variablesin rocky shore communities
Javier Cabello: Functional characterization of Peruvian ecoregions based on remotely sensed Ecosystem Functional Types
Aino Kullonen: Essential Mountain Variables for monitoring mountain social-ecological systems: progress and prospects
Maria Isabel Arce: Implementation of a community based monitoring scheme of Essential Biodiversity Variables in Montes de Maria, Caribbean Region of Colombia
Anne-Julie Rochette: The MRV capacity-building approach: promoting the use of biodiversity data for decision-making in Africa
Victor Gutierrez Velez: Integrated cloud infrastructure system for characterizing and reporting biodiversity change at the national and regional levels

Session 4: Policy Support

RECORDING (except ORAL Johannes Refisch & FLASH Fernando Mora Rodriguez)

Session 5: EBV Data

Christian Beilschmidt: Building the Next-Generation EBV Analyzer
Néstor Fernández: A self-described data format and standard for the Essential Biodiversity Variables
Néstor Fernández/ Christian Langer/ Thomas Bauer: Demo of the EBV Data Portal (incl. ORAL Néstor Fernández & Plenary)

POSTER

Emilien Gence Alvarez-Vanhard: UAV and satellite data synergies for biodiversity monitoring: a review | Download PDF
Douglas Fernandes DaSilva: Impact of Drought and Desertification on the Livelihood and Health of the Wayuu Indigenous People of La Guajira, Colombia | Download PDF
Joy Alice Megumi Kumagai: The “Effort Gap” Metric: Assessing Countries’ Uneven Conservation Effort Towards Habitats and Biodiversity Protection | Download PDF
María Laura Moreno: Land-use changes negatively affect soil fauna communities: preliminary results of a meta-analysis | Download PDF
Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke: Phytoplankton biodiversity in the context of ecological and trophic states of the lakes
Anna Nikolaeva: Ryazan Region is a model territory for monitoring changes in the entomocomplexes of Central Russia | Download PDF
Nithiyaa Nilamani: Survey on the diversity of benthic macrofauna in seagrass bed, Middle Bank, Penang, Straits of Malacca | Download PDF
Anne-Julie Rochette: Assessing ecosystem services in African Biosphere Reserves: A review and user-informed classification of existing tools | Download PDF
Elena Zvyagina: Macrofungi of the Vakh river basin. The first data

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