GEO BON Open Science Conference 2020

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KEYNOTE/ PANEL

Keynote - EBV & EESV Development

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Anne Larigauderie: IPBES: Science and Evidence for Biodiversity Policy and Action

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Becky Chaplin-Kramer: Securing Critical Natural Capital: Science and Policy Frontiers for Essential Ecosystem Service Variables

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Melodie Mc Geoch: What monitoring invasive species has taught us about governing biodiversity knowledge

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Carlo Rondinini: The InSiGHTS framework for modelling species’ Area of Habitat

Panel Discussion

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Haigen Xu: The Design and Operation of China Biodiversity Observation Network

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Tom Christensen: The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Programme – The Arctic BON; Monitoring and reporting changes in Arctic Biodiversity and ecosystems

RECORDING

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

ORAL

Jasper Slingsby: Using near-term ecological forecasting of satellite data to link traits, communities and ecosystem function

ORAL

Jorge Ari Noriega: Cattle intensification as a global driver of diversity and ecosystem services loss in pastures around the world

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Pedro J. Leitão: Ecosystem Disturbance: progress towards an Essential Biodiversity Variable

Session 3: Ecosystem Structure

ORAL

Babak Naimi: Monitoring the relative magnitude of fragmentation (RMF) at a global scale

ORAL

Nikolai Knapp: Structure metrics to generalize biomass estimation from lidar across forest types from different continents

Session 4: Community Composition

ORAL

Lim, Po Teen: Exploring the Diversity of Zooxanthellae associated with Corals of Perhentian Island Marine Park by Deep Sequencing Approach

ORAL

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

ORAL

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

Session 7: Genetic Composition

ORAL

Anna J. MacDonald: Genomic resources for Australian mammal conservation: The Oz Mammals Genomics Initiative

ORAL

Cristiano Vernesi: G-BiKE (Genomic Biodiversity Knowledge for resilient Ecosystems) network: rationale and activities

ORAL

Leaw Chui Pin: Distribution and population genetic diversity of the giant clams, Tridacna squamosa and T. maxima in the Perhentian Islands Marine Park, Malaysia

ORAL

Alexandra Pavlova: Strong benefit of genetic admixture on survival and reproduction of an endangered fish during restoration of a previously extinct population

ORAL

Leona J. Michèle Milec: Towards globally applicable genetic indicators for fisheries management

OSC2 - Working Groups: EBV classes & EESVs

Session 1: Ecosystem Function

ORAL

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

Session 2: Ecosystem Services

ORAL

Maria Vallejos: An expert-based reference list of variables for characterizing and monitoring social-ecological systems

ORAL

Jonna Heuschele: Use and supply of cultural ecosystem services in Bavarian Forest National Park

ORAL

Anne-Julie Rochette: African Man and Biosphere Reserves: guidance to assess ecosystem services. A manual for African BR managers

Session 3: Ecosystem Structure

ORAL

Gary Geller: GEO BON’s Ecosystem Structure Essential Biodiversity Variables Are Complete: Here’s what they look like and why

ORAL

Carsten Meyer: Global Data On The Annual Extents Of 69 Terrestrial, Marine, And Freshwater Ecosystem Types Over Three Decades

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Roger G. Sayre: A New Map of World Terrestrial Ecosystems at 250 m – Ecosystem Extent Data for the Planet

ORAL

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

FLASH

Cesar A.M.M. Cordeiro: Temporal changes in benthic community composition and functional space in South Atlantic rocky reefs

ORAL

Mitchell Rider: Evaluating the use of underwater passive acoustics for assessing soundscape diversity

ORAL

Kevin Leempoel: DNA collected from environmental samples reveals the diversity of extant mammals in a suburban reserve in California

Session 5: Species Populations

ORAL

Chloé Orland: Recovering the critically endangered black abalone using environmental genomics

ORAL

Malin Pinsky: Species on the Move in the Ocean: Monitoring and Indicators to Inform Policy

ORAL

Adrian Regos: Incorporating remotely sensed ecosystem functional attributes into species distribution models to support biodiversity monitoring

ORAL

Charles van Rees: Invasive Species Management Needs Technological Integration

Session 7: Genetic Composition

ORAL

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

ORAL

Mojgan Zare Shahraki: The structure of fish and macroinvertebrate communities in the Karun River system, Iran

ORAL

Aventino Kasangaki: The link between human activities, water quality and benthic macroinvertebrates in the headwaters of Lake Edward Basin, Uganda: Management lessons

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Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber: The Freshwater Information Platform: an online network facilitating the work of FWBON

Session 3: BON Development

ORAL

Hiroyuki Muraoka: The Asia-Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network: 10-year achievements and new strategies to 2030

ORAL

Peter Kullberg: Towards the network of national biodiversity observatories – the Finnish Ecosystem Observatory

Session 5: EBV Data

ORAL

Quentin Groom: Rapid mobilization of evidence to improve decision-making on invasive species

FLASH

Viviana Brambilla: BioTIME: project development and updates

FLASH

Guillaume Body: Using the Darwin core standard for EBV estimated records in Enetwild

Session 6: Remote Sensing

ORAL

Gary Geller: Why CEOS Is Important to GEO BON: The CEOS Biodiversity Activity

ORAL

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

ORAL

Norbert Jürgens: The regional SASSCAL Biodiversity Observation Network in Southern Africa

ORAL

Chenyang Wei: Spatial-temporal dynamics of alpine treeline ecotones in the western United States under climate change

ORAL

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

ORAL

José Barquín Ortiz: Monitoring global change effects on mountain aquatic ecosystems: strengths and weaknesses

ORAL

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

ORAL

Angélica Batista-Morales: Biomonitoring, socio-ecological systems, freshwater, Colombia, indicators, Response-Pressure-StatusBenefit mode

Session 2: Marine BON

FLASH

Zacharie Sohou: Analysis of marine fisheries statistics in Benin and potential links between fisheries variability and sea surface temperature

FLASH

Muhamad Darif & Nur Aqilah: The study of photosynthetic parameters of microalgae from Penang intertidal areas using Water-PAM and Pocket-PAM

FLASH

Mark J. Costello: Stratifying ocean sampling to optimise monitoring of biodiversity

FLASH

Maria Gabriela Palomo: A Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole-to-Pole of the Americas (MBON Pole to Pole) in support of conservation post 2020

FLASH

Nicolas Moity: Cold or warm? That is the question: EOV monitoring in the Galapagos Marine Reserve by a citizen science observation network

FLASH

Masahiro Nakaoka: Development of Asia-Pacific Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (AP MBON)

FLASH

Isabel Sousa Pinto: MBON: Marine Biodiversity Observation Network: Current status and action plan

FLASH

Frank E. Muller-Karger: Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) contributions from the US

FLASH

Jonatha Giddens: Observing life in the deep-ocean with National Geographic´s deep-sea camera system; a low-cost and scalable approach

FLASH

Frank E. Muller-Karger: MBON: Addressing the Need for Best Practices for the Complementary Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs) and Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs)

FLASH

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

ORAL

Gonzalo Bravo: Machine learning applications to monitor marine Essential Biodiversity Variablesin rocky shore communities

ORAL

Javier Cabello: Functional characterization of Peruvian ecoregions based on remotely sensed Ecosystem Functional Types

ORAL

Aino Kullonen: Essential Mountain Variables for monitoring mountain social-ecological systems: progress and prospects

ORAL

Maria Isabel Arce: Implementation of a community based monitoring scheme of Essential Biodiversity Variables in Montes de Maria, Caribbean Region of Colombia

ORAL

Anne-Julie Rochette: The MRV capacity-building approach: promoting the use of biodiversity data for decision-making in Africa

ORAL

Victor Gutierrez Velez: Integrated cloud infrastructure system for characterizing and reporting biodiversity change at the national and regional levels

Session 4: Policy Support

ORAL

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

Session 5: EBV Data

ORAL

Christian Beilschmidt: Building the Next-Generation EBV Analyzer

ORAL

Néstor Fernández: A self-described data format and standard for the Essential Biodiversity Variables

DEMO

Néstor Fernández/ Christian Langer/ Thomas Bauer: Demo of the EBV Data Portal (incl. ORAL Néstor Fernández & Plenary)

POSTER

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Emilien Gence Alvarez-Vanhard: UAV and satellite data synergies for biodiversity monitoring: a review | Download PDF

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Douglas Fernandes DaSilva: Impact of Drought and Desertification on the Livelihood and Health of the Wayuu Indigenous People of La Guajira, Colombia | Download PDF

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Joy Alice Megumi Kumagai: The “Effort Gap” Metric: Assessing Countries’ Uneven Conservation Effort Towards Habitats and Biodiversity Protection | Download PDF

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María Laura Moreno: Land-use changes negatively affect soil fauna communities: preliminary results of a meta-analysis | Download PDF

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Agnieszka Napiórkowska-Krzebietke: Phytoplankton biodiversity in the context of ecological and trophic states of the lakes

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Anna Nikolaeva: Ryazan Region is a model territory for monitoring changes in the entomocomplexes of Central Russia | Download PDF

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Nithiyaa Nilamani: Survey on the diversity of benthic macrofauna in seagrass bed, Middle Bank, Penang, Straits of Malacca | Download PDF

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Anne-Julie Rochette: Assessing ecosystem services in African Biosphere Reserves: A review and user-informed classification of existing tools | Download PDF

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Elena Zvyagina: Macrofungi of the Vakh river basin. The first data

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