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- Contributions from 100+ authors from all over the world, including both scientists and practitioners
- Includes practical suggestions on how to develop biodiversity monitoring programs
- Covers approaches from in-situ observations to remote sensing, to modelling biodiversity and reporting
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Biodiversity observation systems are almost everywhere inadequate to meet local, national and international (treaty) obligations. As a result of alarmingly rapid declines in biodiversity in the modern era, there is a strong, worldwide desire to upgrade our monitoring systems, but little clarity on what is actually needed and how it can be assembled from the elements which are already present. This book intends to provide practical guidance to broadly-defined biodiversity observation networks at all scales, but predominantly the national scale and higher. This is a practical how-to book with substantial policy relevance. It will mostly be used by technical specialists with a responsibility for biodiversity monitoring to establish and refine their systems. It is written at a technical level, but one that is not discipline-bound: it should be intelligible to anyone in the broad field with a tertiary education.
Editors and Affiliations
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Natural Resources and Environment, Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Natural Resources and Environment, Pretoria, South Africa
Michele Walters
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Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand, Global Change and Sustainability Research Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa
Robert J. Scholes
About the editors
Robert (Bob) J. Scholes, is Distinguished Professor of Systems Ecology at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa. He is widely published in the areas of global change, biodiversity, ecosystem services and earth observation. He is or has been a member of several steering committees of international Global Change research programmes, including the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, Diversitas and the Program on Ecosystem Change and Society. He was a member of the team that devised the first Group on Earth Observation Implementation Plan and served as the first chair of the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network. He is a member of the South African Academy of Science, fellow of the Royal Society of South Africa, and a foreign associate of the US National Academy of Science.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks
Editors: Michele Walters, Robert J. Scholes
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27288-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Biomedical and Life Sciences, Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-27286-3Published: 07 December 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80109-4Published: 28 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-27288-7Published: 25 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 326
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 27 illustrations in colour
Topics: Applied Ecology, Biodiversity, Conservation Biology/Ecology, Ecosystems, Community and Environmental Psychology