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Biodiversity expert responses to survey questions
Despite substantial progress in understanding global biodiversity loss, major taxonomic and geographic knowledge gaps remain. Decisionmakers often rely on expert judgement to fill knowledge gaps, but are rarely able to engage with sufficiently large and diverse groups of experts. To improve understanding of the perspectives of thousands of biodiversity experts worldwide, we conducted a survey and asked experts to focus on the taxa and freshwater, terrestrial, or marine ecosystem they know best. We identified biodiversity experts as corresponding authors of papers published on the topic of biodiversity in scientific journals indexed in the Web of Science over the decade from January 2010 to December 2019. Focusing on the taxa and ecosystems they know best, these experts estimated past and future global biodiversity loss, which was defined in the survey as the percentage of species that are globally threatened or extinct. Experts also ranked the direct and indirect drivers of global biodiversity loss and estimated its impacts on ecosystem functioning and nature's contributions to people. We received 3,331 responses from biodiversity experts who live in 113 countries and who research biodiversity in nearly all (187) countries, including all major habitats in freshwater, terrestrial, and marine ecosystems. The data provided here are the 3,331 responses (rows) to survey questions (columns).
2020 Stakeholder Survey of the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) - Quantitative Dataset
<p>This dataset is the outcome of a survey of IPBES stakeholders that was conducted in May-June 2020. The aim of this survey is to better understand stakeholder engagement with IPBES, to improve implementation of the IPBES stakeholder engagement strategy (decision IPBES-3/4 presented in document IPBES/3/18), and to further increase the inclusivity and effectiveness of the IPBES work programme. Results will help, among others, to better align communication and outreach, and to strengthen collaborative processes within the IPBES work programme.</p> <p><br> This dataset presents only the quantitative data of the complete dataset of responses. It has been anonymised and all personal comments in response to open questions have been removed. For information, the full anonymised dataset has been published on Zenodo, with restricted access (see DOI: <a href="http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4121916">10.5281/zenodo.4121916</a>).</p> <p>This dataset is under restricted access and embargoed until after the eighth session of IPBES Plenary. For any inquiry, please contact IPBES Head of Communications (stakeholders@ipbes.net). </p>
Global knowledge and use of soil biodiversity: Results of an expert survey
<p>A global survey on soil biodiversity (see file Global Biodiversity Survey.pdf provided as an attachment) was conducted over a three-week period in March 2022 by the Global Soil Partnership (GSP) of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, as part of the activities of the International Network on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB). The survey intended to obtain information on the current status of knowledge and use of soil organisms worldwide, i.e., to identify who is doing what, where, and how, as well as the main gaps, pitfalls, and opportunities across existing national initiatives and research.</p> <p>The survey included 122 questions that characterized the work undertaken by experts regarding microbes, fauna, and their activity in soils, community & functional assessments, inventories, mapping and monitoring activities, ecosystem services, applications, and threats to soil biodiversity, education, and communication activities, as well as public policies related to soil biodiversity. The online survey was created using the software Survey Monkey v. 11 and was sent out to over 70 thousand e-mail addresses with a link to complete the survey. </p> <p>Over 2,600 responses were received, representing >1,350 institutions from 135 countries, mainly from experts active in research and academia. The number of respondents was not equal for all questions, as the survey guided the respondents to different parts, depending on their replies.</p> <p>The 122 questions and the replies of the respondents are presented as separate tabs in the attached Excel file (Results survey for Zenodo.xlsx). The respondents and their identities, as well as their e-mails and any personal websites were removed in the current file to maintain anonymity. Institutional websites were maintained as long as they did not identify the respondent(s) directly. </p> <p>A detailed written description of the survey results was prepared as a manuscript for a special issue of the journal Soil Organisms, volume 97 (Brown et al., 2025). The survey was prepared by a team of scientists from the Brazilian Corporation for Agricultural Research (Embrapa) and collaborating institutions, with assistance from the board of the International Network on Soil Biodiversity (NETSOB), and with funding provided by the FAO. The work was further supported by the Fundação de Apoio a Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Agropecuário Edmundo Gastal (FAPEG), Brazil, a grant of CNPq (Processo No. 312824/2022-0) to GGB, and of the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) Discovery Grant program (# 05901–2019) to ZL, who was also supported by Western University.</p>
Dutch grid map layers for biodiversity surveys
<p>This dataset contains map layers in GeoPackage format with the following grids used in biodiversity surveys in the Netherlands:</p> <table> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong>Layer name</strong></td> <td><strong>Size (m)</strong></td> <td><strong>Description</strong></td> </tr> <tr> <td>IvonGrid Kwartierhok</td> <td>1250x1042 </td> <td>Used between 1902 and 1950 by IVON botanical surveys.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>IvonGrid Uurhok</td> <td>5000x4168 </td> <td>Used between 1902 and 1950 by IVON botanical surveys. Each square contains 16 'kwartierhok' squares with corresponding first four characters in column name.</td> </tr> <tr> <td>RdGrid Kilometerhok</td> <td>1000</td> <td>Used since 1950 in biodiversity surveys. </td> </tr> <tr> <td>RdGrid Uurhok</td> <td>5000</td> <td>Used since 1950 in biodiversity surveys. Each square contains 25 kilometer squares.</td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <p> </p> <p>The RdGrid maps are available in the WGS84 and RD New (EPSG:28992) spatial reference systems, as they are aligned to rounded RD coordinates. IvonGrid is only available in WGS84.</p> <p><strong>Grid square codes</strong></p> <p>Kilometerhok (1x1 km) and Uurhok (5x5) grids have corresponding grid square codes. A code consists of three concatenated numbers for map sheat (1-62), 5 km square (11-58) and 1 km square (11-55). E.g. a 5 km square code looks like 4017. In literature and on collection labels this often written as 40.17 or 40-17.</p> <p><strong>Maintanance</strong></p> <p>This dataset is being curated by FLORON Plant Conservation Netherlands since 1988 for use in botanical surveys (previously by Theo Peterbroers, Bart Vreeken and Ruud Beringen).</p> <p><strong>History</strong></p> <p>IVON stands for "Instituut voor Vegetatie-onderzoek Nederland", an NGO founded in 1930 was most active until the 1950's and then succeeded by FLORON in 1988. More information about the repartition of the IVON grid can be found in Atlas van de Nederlandse Flora part 1 (Mennema et al. 1989). The original map was hand drawn on topographical maps by J.W.C. Goethart en W. J. Jongmans (Van Ooststroom 1956) originally following the Bessel 1841 projection (EPSG:7004). The grid cells are equal in size, although not rounded to kilometers. The size was probably chosen to fit maps that were commercially available at that time.</p> <p> </p> <p><strong>References</strong></p> <p>Mennema, J., Quene-Boterenbrood, Plate, C. L., Van der Meijden, R., & Weeda, E. J. (1989). Atlas van de Nederlandse flora. Kosmos, Amsterdam.</p> <p>van Ooststroom, S.J. (1956). Het I.V.O.N. – Werk. Correspondentieblad ten dienste van de floristiek en het vegetatie-onderzoek van Nederland 1: 2–3.</p>
Biodiversity - Fauna - Bird Survey (Reformatted to the ecocomDP Design Pattern)
This data package is formatted as an ecocomDP (Ecological Community Data Pattern). For more information on ecocomDP see https://github.com/EDIorg/ecocomDP. This Level 1 data package was derived from the Level 0 data package found here: https://pasta.lternet.edu/package/metadata/eml/knb-lter-bes/543/170. The abstract below was extracted from the Level 0 data package and is included for context: This dataset is associated with BES Bird Monitoring Bird Monitoring Project: ================= The BES Bird Monitoring Project is a breeding bird survey designed to find out what birds are found in the breeding season in Baltimore and where. Our monitoring efforts will show associations among block group socioeconomic variables, land cover, land use, and habitat features with breeding bird abundance, to provide information for land managers on possible consequences of land use changes on bird communities. A distinguishing feature of the bird monitoring at BES LTER, relative to other urban bird work, is the capacity for long-term monitoring of features at multiple scales through links to other parts of the project. Different processes influence habitat for birds at different scales, e.g. ongoing household level human decision-making at lot scale vs. block or neighborhood scale abandonment/re-development. Our project seeks to understand how these processes impact bird occurrence, abundance, and composition differ at the lot, block and neighborhood scale. The database consists of four tables. Sites, Surveys, Taxalist, and Birds. Sites records thje sites and their characteristics. Surveys describe the actual outings or sampling sessions. They describe the weather, the temperature, the sites visited. Taxalist provides the integration of speciaies abbreviations and common names, and Birds describes the actual sightings, linking to the other three tables. Attribute information: The tables form a set. Here are the fields and relationship information: Surveys: site_id FK->Sites[site_id
Fig. 2 in Axiidea (Crustacea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae and Ctenochelidae) and Gebiidea (Upogebiidae) collected during the Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey of Singapore
Fig. 2. Specimens, habitus (dorsal and ventral views), showing colouration in life: a, Upogebia carinicauda (Stimpson, 1860), male (21/6.1) (NHMW 26035); b, same, male (23/6.6) (NHMW 26034); c, d, U. darwinii (Miers, 1884), ovigerous female (44/12.6) (NHMW 26038); e, U. hexaceras (Ortmann, 1894), male (23/7.0) (ZRC 2018.0557); f, same, ovigerous female (22/6.1) (NHMW 26042); g, U. ancylodactyla de Man, 1905, female (40/11.3) (ZRC 2018.0551); h, same, male (29/8.4) (ZRC 2018.0549). Not to scale. [Photographs by AA].
Fig. 1 in Axiidea (Crustacea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae and Ctenochelidae) and Gebiidea (Upogebiidae) collected during the Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey of Singapore
Fig. 1. Specimens, habitus (dorsal and/or ventral views), showing colouration in life: a, Gourretia sinica Liu & Liu, 2010, female (23/5.3) (ZRC 2017.0947); b, Karumballichirus karumba (Poore & Griffin, 1979), female (32/7.6) (ZRC 2018.0526); c, Aqaballianassa brevirostris Sakai, 2002, ovigerous female (28/5.6) (ZRC 2017.0948); d, Upogebia singaporensis, new species, female holotype (16/5.4) (ZRC 2017.0951); e, f, Neogebicula johorensis, new species, male holotype (18/5.6) (ZRC 2017.0956); g, h, same, ovigerous female paratype (21/6.3) (ZRC 2017.0955); i, j, Wolffogebia phuketensis Sakai, 1982, male (37/10.3) (NHMW 26036). Not to scale. [Photographs by AA].
Fig. 5 in Axiidea (Crustacea: Callianassidae, Callichiridae and Ctenochelidae) and Gebiidea (Upogebiidae) collected during the Comprehensive Marine Biodiversity Survey of Singapore
Fig. 5. Gourretia sinica Liu & Liu, 2010, female (18/7.5) (ZRC 2018.0560); a, left Mxp3, lateral view; major cheliped fingers, lateral (b) and mesial (c) view; d, minor cheliped fingers, lateral view; e, distal articles of pereopod 2, lateral view; f, distal articles of third pereopod, lateral view; g, telson, dorsal view. Scale bar = 1 mm. [Illustrations by PCD].
FIGURE 10. Eugorgia rubens. A in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 10. Eugorgia rubens. A. Living colony in situ off San Mateo County, Monterey Bay NMS, 75 m depth, 3 August 2018. CA. B. Dried specimen (CASIZ 228213) of the colony shown in A; scale bar = 150 mm. C. Scanning electron micrographs of coenenchymal sclerites; scale bar = 0.02 mm. Photograph 10A courtesy of NOAA and MARE.
FIGURE 6 in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 6. In situ images made by the MARE ROV "Beagle" of two deep-sea pennatulaceans in CBNMS, August 2-3, 2018, on board FSV Bell M. Shimada. A. Acanthoptilum gracile. B. Ptilosarcus gurneyi. Photographs courtesy of NOAA and MARE.
FIGURE 8 in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 8. Paragorgia yutlinux (CASIZ 220970). A. Partial colony, scale bar = 50 mm. B. Coenenchymal sclerites, scale bar = 0.04 mm.
FIGURE 2. Offshore Operations. A in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 2. Offshore Operations. A. Scientific staff on board FSV Bell M. Shimada with the MARE ROV, "Beagle", August 2018. B. The ROV "Hercules" on board E/V Nautilus. C. The manipulator arm of the ROV "Hercules" on the E/V Nautilus, collecting branches of the bamboo coral, Keratosis sp. D. The E/V Nautilus at harbor, San Francisco. E. Bow of the E/V Nautilus approaching the Golden Gate. F. The CBNMS ROV on board R/V Fulmar. Photograph 2C courtesy OET and NOAA.
FIGURE 5. Isidids. A in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 5. Isidids. A. Acanella sp., laboratory photograph of wet-preserved specimen. B. Keratoisis sp., two portions of axes showing branching arising from calcareous internodes. C. Isidella sp., portion of an axis showing branches arising from proteinous nodes. D. Lepidisis sp., portion of living colony in situ. Several anemones are attached to the rachis as well (arrows). Photograph 5D courtesy of OET and NOAA.
FIGURE 1 in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 1. National Marine Sanctuaries in California. A. Map showing the coastal counties of California with distribution of the four current and one proposed national marine sanctuaries. B. Detailed map of central California showing the current boundaries of three national marine sanctuaries (courtesy: NOAA Office of National Marine Sanctuaries).
FIGURE 9 in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 9. Radicipes stonei (CASIZ 207516). A. Partial colony, total length = 48 mm. B. CASIZ 207517, Coenenchymal sclerites, scale bar = 0.30 mm.
FIGURE 7. Recent discoveries. A in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 7. Recent discoveries. A. Protoptilum nybakkeni (CASIZ 106702), Holotype, west of the Farallon Islands, 2900 m. B. Chromoplexaura cordellbankensis (CASIZ 207519), Paratype, MBNMS, 107 m. C. Chromoplexaura marki (CASIZ 228197), CBNMS, 97 m. D. Swiftia farallonesica (CASIZ 196930), Holotype, GFNMS, 182 m. Scale bar for A = 25 mm; scale bar for B-E = 50 mm.
FIGURE 4 in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 4. In situ images made by the MARE ROV "Beagle" of two deep-sea octocorals in CBNMS, August 6, 2018, on board FSV Bell M. Shimada. A. Swiftia sp. B. Heteropolypus ritteri. Photographs courtesy NOAA and MARE.
FIGURE 3 in Deep-Sea Octocoral Biodiversity Surveys in Central California
FIGURE 3. Ecological Interactions. Living colonies and associates in situ off San Mateo County, Monterey Bay NMS, 48 m, 2 August 2018; several gorgonian colonies Chromoplexaura marki, with the nudibranch Tritonia tetraquetra, ovulid snails Simnia barbarensis, and epizoic barnacles Conopea sp. Photograph courtesy NOAA and MARE.
Fig.3 in Biodiversity survey, ecology and new distribution records of Marchantiophyta in a remnant of Brazilian Atlantic Forest
Fig.3. Graphical representation of substrates colonized by liverwort species in the fragment of dense montane ombrophilous forest studied in the National Park of Boa Nova, Bahia, Brazil.
Figs. 18–21. Endemic insects. 18 in Socotra Archipelago - a lifeboat in the sea of changes: advancement in Socotran insect biodiversity survey
Figs. 18–21. Endemic insects. 18 – Pachysmopoda abbreviata (Taschenberg, 1883) (Tettigoniidae), female, Madboh Sinhin plateau, 12.xi.2010; 19 – Julodis clouei Buquet, 1843 (Buprestidae), Noged plain, 10.xi.2010 (Photo J. Hájek); 20 – Mallodon arabicum Buquet, 1843 (Cerambycidae), male, Firmihin plateau, 16.xi.2010; 20 – Acraea neobule socotrana Rebel, 1907 (Nymphalidae), mating pair, Skant, 12.xi.2010.
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