BON in a Box: An Open and Collaborative Platform for Biodiversity Monitoring, Indicator Calculation, and Reporting
Authors: Griffith J, Lord JM, Catchen MD, Arce-Plata MI, Blanchet FG, Chandramohan M, Diaz-Corzo MC, Gravel D, Gutiérrez C, Helfenstein IS, Hoban S, Kass JM, Laikre L, Larocque G, Leigh DM, Leung B, Mastretta-Yanes A, Millette KL, Berbeo MAM, Nguyen D, Norman KE, Olaya-Rodríguez MH, Pahls S, Pereira K, Peres-Neto PR, Poisot T, Pollock LJ, Rey-Velasco JC, Rincon-Parra VJ, Roeoesli C, Rousseu F, Sánchez-Clavijo LM, Schuman MC, Selmoni O, da Silva JM, Suarez-Valencia E, Surasinghe TD, Turak E, Urbina LF, Valentin S, Wi
Affiliations
1 Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
2 Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montreal, Montreal, QC, CA.
3 Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
4 Département de Biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
5 Département de Mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
6 Département des Sciences de la Santé Communautaire, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
7 School of Computer Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
8 Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt, Bogotá, Colombia.
9 Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
10 Biodiversité Québec, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada.
11 Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
12 The Morton Arboretum, Center for Tree Science, Lisle, IL, USA.
13 Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, Miyagi, Japan.
14 Department of Zoology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden.
15 LOEWE Centre for Translational Biodiversity Genomics, Frankfurt, Germany.
16 Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany.
17 Institute of Ecology, Evolution, and Diversity, Faculty of Biosciences, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.
18 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, United Kingdom.
19 USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, NM , USA.
20 Department of Biology, Concordia University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
21 Department of Chemistry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
22 South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Newlands, Cape Town, South Africa.
23 Centre for Ecological Genomics and Wildlife Conservation, University of Johannesburg, Auckland Park Campus, Johannesburg, South Africa.
24 Department of Biological Sciences, Bridgewater State University, Bridgewater, MA, USA.
25 NSW Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Paramatta, NSW, Australia.
26 UMR Territoires, Environnement, Télédétection et Information Spatiale (TETIS), Montpellier, France.
27 Department of Quantitative Life Sciences, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
Description
The Convention on Biological Diversity's Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) sets ambitious goals to protect and restore biodiversity. It includes a monitoring framework that mandates countries to track progress toward these goals using indicators that summarize biodiversity trends. Calculating indicators is challenging for countries because of fragmented biodiversity monitoring efforts, technical barriers, a lack of available data and tools, and capacity bottlenecks. The BON in a Box platform for biodiversity monitoring and indicator calculation, developed by the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, was created to address these challenges by providing open, transparent, and reproducible analysis pipelines that convert data into essential biodiversity variables and indicators. These pipelines are built by experts and contributed by the community, follow FAIR principles, and help scientists apply their research to coordinate biodiversity monitoring efforts, build capacity to track progress toward the GBF, and affect policy change.
Keywords: Convention on Biological Diversity; biodiversity goals and targets; biodiversity observation network; capacity building; essential biodiversity variables;
Links
PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41971256/
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf189