[LTER-BioProd] Biodiversity Agenda Paper - action required!

[Andrew Gonzalez, Prof.]

To Akira's point number #3 I would recommend citing this paper by K¨¹hl et al. 2020 in One Earth
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590332220304796
A great paper on the need for a bottom-up process with a broad set of partners across all sectors of society to achieve effective biodiversity monitoring (national and global).

Akira, I am going to set up a GEO BON working group to figure out the financial and technical support needed to help set up a global biodiversity monitoring system. You are very welcome to join, as is anyone else passionate about solving this problem. The solution has to involve networking developed and developing nations and building capacity and tools to support collaboration and cooperation. During SBSTTA the last two days every nation requested technical support for the data-to-indicator workflow (the post 2020 framework involves too many indicators). There will likely be an international organization established with a mandate to do support global monitoring this post COP15. I put language to this effect in a recent document from RSC/NAS to the G7

We are in a pivotal moment and our field has a lot to contribute in the coming year.
Best,
Andy



Andrew Gonzalez F.R.S.C.
Professor | Liber Ero Chair in Biodiversity Conservation
Dept. Biology | McGill University
1205 Dr. Penfield Avenue, Montreal, H3A 1B1, Quebec, Canada

co-Chair GEO BON<https://geobon.org/>
Director Quebec Centre for Biodiversity Science<https://qcbs.ca/>
Co-founder Eco2Urb<https://www.eco2urb.com/about-eco2urb.html>
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Open-access paper:
Gonzalez, A., Germain, R., Srivastava, D. et al. (2020) Scaling©\up biodiversity©\ecosystem functioning research. Ecology Letters<https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ele.13456>
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Dear Mary and all,

Thank you so much for your hard work to finalize this manuscript. I really appreciate it. And I really like the paper, especially how you nicely describe feedback from the basic concepts (density-dependence and population growth) to the B-F-H feedback in the pluralistic context. I have just minor suggestions.

1. I would suggest removing Figure 1B. It is complicated and readers need to visit the original review. However, it is already outdated, as the concept was changed from benefits to contributions. More importantly, I just like Figure 1A and 1C, which nicely convey how feedback occurs at multiple scales (and possibly, bidirectionally). Removing Figure 1B helps further highlight them.

2. In Box 1. I agree with Laura. We need descriptions for both ES and NCP. It could be better to cite this paper. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/26395916.2019.1669713  ("We find a mixed-picture, where on six specific conceptual claims (culture, social sciences and humanities, indigenous and local knowledge, negative contributions of nature, generalizing perspective, non-instrumental values and valuation) NCP does not differ greatly from past ES research, but we also find five conceptual claims (diverse worldviews, context-specific perspective, relational values, fuzzy and fluid reporting categories and groups, inclusive language and framing) where NCP provides novel conceptualizations of people and nature relations.")

3. I really like the sentence in L430-432. I am just wondering how this (breaking the historical pattern...) can be realized. In a recent Science Policy Forum by Soil BON (http://science.sciencemag.org/content/371/6526/239), I found a similar sentence ("Such a global initiative will not be possible without a wide network of local partners ... This includes providing support to colleagues working in developing countries and establishing a centralized global analysis network across different volunteering institutions..."). Then I hoped to find more concrete suggestions to realize this (e.g., financial and technical support from developed to developing nations) in their supplementary material, but found no concrete suggestions and solutions. So, it could be better to be a bit specific here¡­


4. My name needs "S" (Akira S Mori). Akira Mori is one of the richest persons in Japan (of course, not me).

Thank you for citing the GScience statement. Although G7 was cancelled in 2020, the statement is still important to connect science and policy.

Best wishes,

Akira
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