Category FAQs Search : Marine Biodiversity
Question: Global marine biodiversity in the context of achieving the Aichi Targets: ways forward and addressing data gaps
Answer: 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 fiveday 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 Targ
(Source: , 17 Sep 2021)
Source Link: https://peerj.com/articles/7221.pdf