Global marine biodiversity in the context of achieving the Aichi Targets: ways forward and addressing data gaps

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Hanieh Saeedi¹  James Davis Reimer³  Miriam I. Brandt⁴  Philippe-Olivier Dumais⁵  Anna Maria Jażdżewska⁶  Nicholas W. Jeffery⁷  Peter M. Thielen⁸  Mark John Costello⁹ 

[1] Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum;FB 15 Biological Sciences Institute for Ecology, Diversity and Evolution Biologicum, Goethe University of Frankfurt;Marine Invertebrate Systematics & Ecology Laboratory, Faculty of Science, University of the Ryukyus;IMARBEC;Benthic Ecology Laboratory, Biology Department, Université Laval;Laboratory of Polar Biology and Oceanobiology, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Hydrobiology, Faculty of Biology and Environmental Protection, University of Lodz;Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Bedford Institute of Oceanography;Research and Exploratory Development Department, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory;Institute of Marine Science, University of Auckland

关键词: Aichi targets;    Marine biodiversity;    Prediction;    Discovery;    Biodiversity tools and pipelines;    Biogeography;    Data standard;    Stewardship and dissemination;    Stewardship;    Data standards;    Dissemination;    Tools and pipelines;    Marine biodiversity;   

DOI  :  10.7717/peerj.7221

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Inra

【 摘 要 】

In 2010, the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As this plan approaches its end, we discussed whether marine biodiversity and prediction studies were nearing the Aichi Targets during the 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity held in Montreal, Canada in June 2018. This article summarises the outcome of a five-day group discussion on how global marine biodiversity studies should be focused further to better understand the patterns of biodiversity. We discussed and reviewed seven fundamental biodiversity priorities related to nine Aichi Targets focusing on global biodiversity discovery and predictions to improve and enhance biodiversity data standards (quantity and quality), tools and techniques, spatial and temporal scale framing, and stewardship and dissemination. We discuss how identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps and promoting efforts have and will reduce such gaps, including via the use of new databases, tools and technology, and how these resources could be improved in the future. The group recognised significant progress toward Target 19 in relation to scientific knowledge, but negligible progress with regard to Targets 6 to 13 which aimed to safeguard and reduce human impacts on biodiversity.

【 授权许可】

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