Political commitment and policy instruments to halt biodiversity loss require robust data and a diverse indicator set to monitor and report on biodiversity trends. Gaps in data availability and narrow-based indicator sets are significant information barriers for fulfilling reporting needs. In this paper, the reporting requirements of several international biodiversity policy instruments were reviewed using the list of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) as a framework. The reporting requirements for the most comprehensive policy instrument, the United Nation's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, were compared with the indicator set actually used for its reporting, to identify any currently existing reporting gaps. To explore the extent to which identified gaps could be bridged, existing datasets were analysed to assess the potential contribution of data mobilisation and further processing of existing data.
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Geijzendorffer, I.R., Regan, E., Pereira, H.M. et al. 2016. Journal of Applied Ecology 2016, vol. 53: 1341–1350
Geijzendorffer, I., Regan, E., Pereira, H., Brotons, L., Brummitt, N., Gavish, Y., ... Walters, M. (2016). Bridging the gap between biodiversity data and policy reporting needs: An essential biodiversity variables perspective. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9071
Geijzendorffer, IR, E Regan, HM Pereira, L Brotons, N Brummitt, Y Gavish, P Haase, et al "Bridging the gap between biodiversity data and policy reporting needs: An essential biodiversity variables perspective." (2016) http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9071
Geijzendorffer I, Regan E, Pereira H, Brotons L, Brummitt N, Gavish Y, et al. Bridging the gap between biodiversity data and policy reporting needs: An essential biodiversity variables perspective. 2016; http://hdl.handle.net/10204/9071.
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