Program
The workshop is split into three 90-minute sessions over three days.
We advise registrants to plan on attending at least one of the breakout session days (day 1 or 2) and the concluding discussion on day 3.
Agenda
Wednesday, 11th May
Introduction to EuropaBON
Tackling taxa- and habitat-specific monitoring constraints
- Breakout sessions: birds, mammals, fish, aquatic invertebrates, terrestrial invertebrates, plants/algae/macrophytes, amphibians/reptiles
Session summaries and general discussion
Agenda
Thursday, 12th May
Introduction to Essential Biodiversity Variables
Improving on measurement of target biodiversity metrics
- Breakout sessions: Genetic composition, Species population and abundances, Community diversity, Trait diversity (morphology, movement, phenology), Ecosystem functioning, Ecosystem structure
Session summaries and general discussion
Agenda
Friday, 13th May
Recap of keypoints from Days 1 and 2
General discussion of key points to emphasise for novel methodology implementation: practical needs, areas of concern, unaddressed gaps
Kick-off meeting
The project officially starts on 1 December, 2020 and the Kick-off meeting for EuropaBON will take place from 1-3 December, 2020. The agenda of the meeting is available here.
If you interested in participating at any of the open sessions, please send an email to Jessi Junker at jessica.junker@idiv.de to receive the link and password to access the meeting via Zoom.
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Call for stakeholders now open!
EuropaBON aims to bridge numerous gaps in biodiversity monitoring by engaging stakeholders, together with the wider biodiversity community. To keep you informed on all project developments and solicit your active participation as a stakeholder, we invite you to register as a EuropaBON stakeholder.
For more information on the registration and its benefits, please see this document.
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Mission
EuropaBONs mission is to overcome existing data gaps and workflow bottlenecks by designing an EU-wide framework for monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services. EuropaBON will use state of the art models to produce essential variables to integrate different reporting streams, data sources, and monitoring schemes. These essential variables provide consistent knowledge about multiple dimensions of biodiversity change across space and time. They can then be analyzed and synthesized to support decision-making at different spatial scales, from the sub-national to the European scale, through the production of indicators and scenarios.
EuropaBON will work with stakeholders to identify user and policy needs for biodiversity monitoring and investigate the feasibility of setting up a center to coordinate monitoring activities across Europe. Together with stakeholders, EuropaBON will assess current monitoring efforts to identify gaps, data and workflow bottlenecks, and analyse cost-effectiveness of different schemes. The results of this assessment will be used to inform the design of improved monitoring schemes able to integrate in-situ and remote sensing data through models, and using novel technologies, to deliver more complete and less biased biodiversity information with multiple benefits to users and society. A set of EuropaBON showcases will demonstrate how the EBVs and EESVs provide timely and relevant data for EU member states and regions, including policy-relevant indicators to assess progress in biodiversity targets, short-term biodiversity and ecosystem services forecasts, and scenarios that support IPBES and other assessments.
Objectives
EuropaBON aims to:
Engage users at the regional, national and European level to identify the data needs of policies and targets aligned with the new European Green Deal, such as the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, Habitats Directive, Birds Directive, Water Framework Directive, Climate Strategy and Ecosystem Restoration goals, the Bioeconomy Strategy, and national and EU wide initiatives on natural capital accounting.
Adapt the generic Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) and Essential Ecosystem Services Variables (EESVs) and their characteristics (spatial, temporal and biological entity, scope and resolution) to address the specific user needs.
Survey existing monitoring initiatives, including long-term ecosystem monitoring and monitoring that responds to regulations (directives and strategies), remote sensing and citizen science, and assess how they can contribute to producing comprehensive biodiversity information under the EBVs and EESVs frameworks.
Identify gaps in the current monitoring of European biodiversity, including thematic, taxonomic, geographic and temporal gaps, and how novel technologies and modelling approaches can assist in filling those gaps.
Analyze the pathway from data collection to knowledge production in order to identify good practices, bottlenecks and limitations on the mobilization and harmonization of monitoring data to publicly accessible infrastructures and on their policy uptake.
Co-design workflows needed for a more integrated biodiversity observation network that can close gaps and reduce bottlenecks, in dialogue with data producers and users to support EU policies and targets. For the first time, workflows will be proposed for a wide range of EBVs at the European scale including the biodiversity monitoring protocols, modelling tools available, and analytical steps required.
Assess cost-effectiveness of existing monitoring schemes and of the new monitoring design (including benefits related to ecosystem services, as well as co-benefits on education, Common Agricultural Policy goals, and business opportunities) with EBVs and EESVs workflows implemented at different levels of ambition.
Demonstrate in a set of policy-oriented showcases how such EBVs and EESVs workflows allow the integration of different data streams and thus provide timely and relevant data across the EU member states and regions, including indicators to assess policy targets and ecosystem condition, current trends, short-term biodiversity and ecosystem services forecasts for the public, and support the development of long-term scenarios in IPBES and other initiatives.
Mobilize a coalition of key players in national and EU level bodies to establish the ToR for a permanent Biodiversity Monitoring and Coordinating Centre that will implement and oversee a European Biodiversity Observation Network.
Project coordination
EuropaBON is coordinated by the project coordinator Henrique Pereira, the scientific coordinator Jessica Junker and the administrative coordinator Karolin Dietrich at MLU. The team is supported by Sigrid Köhne (MLU), Claudia Weinhold-Kiefhaber (MLU), Jacqueline Göbel (MLU) and Joachim Maes (JRC).
Henrique Pereira
Project coordinator
Henrique is Professor for Biodiversity Conservation at the German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), and Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). He oversees all scientific and administrative activities in EuropaBON.
Jessica Junker
Scientific coordinator
Jessi is a postdoc at the Biodiversity Conservation lab at iDiv/MLU. She manages and supervises all scientific activities in EuropaBON together with Henrique.
Karolin Dietrich
Administrative coordinator
Karolin is the administrative assistant at the Biodiversity Conservation lab at iDiv/MLU. She manages all administrative, financial and logistical aspects of EuropaBON together with Henrique.
Project management support team
Joachim Maes
Communication
Joint Research Centre - European Commission (JRC)
Sigrid Köhne
Administrative/financial
MLU, EU-office
Claudia Weinhold-Kiefhaber
Administrative/financial
MLU, EU-office
Jacqueline Goebel
Legal support
MLU, EU-office
Geographic distribution of the partners and their thematic expertise
Illustration of work packages and tasks and how they link/interrelate
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Tel.: +49 341 9733123
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Tel.: +49 341 9733141
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iDiv is a central facility of Leipzig University.
Main responsibility for this website
Henrique Pereira (Project coordinator)
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig, GERMANY
Email: hpereira@idiv.de
Tel.: +49 341 9733137
Responsibility for the content of this website
Jessica Junker (Scientific coordinator)
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig, GERMANY
Email: jessica.junker@idiv.de
Tel.: +49 341 9733123
Webdesign / Programming
Christian Langer
German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig
Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig, GERMANY
Email: christian.langer@idiv.de
Tel.: +49 341 9733141
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iDiv shall not be liable for the accuracy of the contents, for editorial and technical errors, for completeness, for omissions, for updating or for any similar aspects of its website. The use of the available information shall be at the user’s own risk. Although we carefully check their contents, we cannot assume any liability for the contents of external links to third-party websites. Such websites and their contents shall be subject to the liability of their owners. Please inform us of any errors in terms of contents or technology using the special e-mail address for this purpose: jessica.junker[at]idiv.de
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Puschstrasse 4
04103 Leipzig, GERMANY
Email: christian.langer@idiv.de
Tel.: +49 341 9733141