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

Fri Feb 19 13:40:04 PST 2021

Hi Mary and co-authors,

Excellent work, I am so excited to see this is close to submission. I did a
little work on box 3, as asked. Please let me know if you would like more.

You have my ok to submit.

My affiliation is:
Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Johns Hopkins University,
Baltimore, MD 21218.

Meghan

On Fri, Feb 19, 2021 at 8:19 AM Andrew Gonzalez, Prof. <
andrew.gonzalez at mcgill.ca> wrote:

> To Akira's point number #3 I would recommend citing this paper by Kühl 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>
> @bio_diverse | Google Scholar
> <https://scholar.google.ca/citations?user=nxg3KqkAAAAJ&hl=en>
>
>
> 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>*
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Akira Mori <akira.s.mori at gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Friday, February 19, 2021 1:20 AM
> *To:* bioprod at lternet.edu <bioprod at lternet.edu>
> *Cc:* Andrew Gonzalez, Prof. <andrew.gonzalez at mcgill.ca>; Cheung, William
> <w.cheung at oceans.ubc.ca>
> *Subject:* Re: [LTER-BioProd] Biodiversity Agenda Paper - action required!
>
>
> 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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