Refining Ways of Measuring Biodiversity to Meet Policy Goals (image)

Florida Museum of Natural History

Caption

GEO BON has identified six classes of 'essential biodiversity variables' to track and monitor, represented by the teal dots at the top of this figure. Guralnick and his colleagues refined the 'species traits' class by defining characteristics to measure and linking these to policy goals.

Credit

Figure by Kissling et al. in Nature Ecology and Evolution

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