Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future
成果类型：
Editorial Material
署名作者：
Chapman, Melissa; Goldstein, Benjamin R.; Schell, Christopher J.; Brashares, Justin S.; Carter, Neil H.; Ellis-Soto, Diego; Faxon, Hilary Oliva; Goldstein, Jenny E.; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Longdon, Joycelyn; Norman, Kari E. A.; O'Rourke, Dara; Scoville, Caleb; Xu, Lily; Boettiger, Carl
署名单位：
University of California System; University of California Santa Barbara; University of California System; University of California Berkeley; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; Yale University; University of Montana System; University of Montana; Cornell University; University of Cambridge; Universite de Montreal; Tufts University; Harvard University
刊物名称：
SCIENCE
ISSN/ISSBN：
0036-12684
DOI：
10.1126/science.adh8874
发表日期：
2024-01-05
页码：
34-36
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摘要：
Ecologists and conservation scientists have long acknowledged that biodiversity data reflect legacies of social inequity (see the figure). Although the ramifications of these disparities were easy to dismiss when the application of large-scale biodiversity data was limited to academic biogeography and theoretical conservation prioritizations, the stakes have changed. Biodiversity data carry more influence than ever before (1), guiding the implementation of massive multilateral commitments and global investments that will affect nature and people for decades to come-from informing priorities for more than doubling the global area under conservation management to creating international biodiversity offset markets. We examine two contentious questions that arise as we consider the disparities in biodiversity data and their consequences in the wake of contemporary biodiversity policy: Are the best available data really a suitable standard? Can more data and better statistical methods ensure that inequities aren't entrenched when implementing data-driven solutions?