A new framework for global species monitoring

Data to assess distributions and trends varies vastly among species. Many tropical butterflies (left) may only have a few records, while bird species (right) in North America or Europe may be documented with millions of records annually. (Image credit: Walter Jetz/Yale University)

March 27, 2019

The outcome of a multi-year process developing a framework addressing Species Population Essential Biodiversity Variables is now published:

Jetz, W., M. A. McGeoch, R. Guralnick, S. Ferrier, J. Beck, M. J. Costello, M. Fernandez, G. N. Geller, P. Keil, C. Merow, C. Meyer, F. E. Muller-Karger, H. M. Pereira, E. C. Regan, D. S. Schmeller, and E. Turak. 2019. Essential biodiversity variables for mapping and monitoring species populations. Nature Ecology & Evolution 3:539-551.

Nature Ecology & Evolution did an editorial about this work. For the Yale press release see here.