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Global marine biodiversity in the context of achieving the Aichi Targets: ways forward and addressing data gaps

Authors :
Hanieh Saeedi
James Davis Reimer
Miriam I. Brandt
Philippe-Olivier Dumais
Anna Maria Jażdżewska
Nicholas W. Jeffery
Peter M. Thielen
Mark John Costello
Source :
PeerJ, Vol 7, p e7221 (2019)
Publication Year :
2019
Publisher :
PeerJ Inc., 2019.

Abstract

In 2010, the Conference of the Parties of the Convention on Biological Diversity agreed on the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020 in Aichi Prefecture, Japan. As this plan approaches its end, we discussed whether marine biodiversity and prediction studies were nearing the Aichi Targets during the 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity held in Montreal, Canada in June 2018. This article summarises the outcome of a five-day group discussion on how global marine biodiversity studies should be focused further to better understand the patterns of biodiversity. We discussed and reviewed seven fundamental biodiversity priorities related to nine Aichi Targets focusing on global biodiversity discovery and predictions to improve and enhance biodiversity data standards (quantity and quality), tools and techniques, spatial and temporal scale framing, and stewardship and dissemination. We discuss how identifying biodiversity knowledge gaps and promoting efforts have and will reduce such gaps, including via the use of new databases, tools and technology, and how these resources could be improved in the future. The group recognised significant progress toward Target 19 in relation to scientific knowledge, but negligible progress with regard to Targets 6 to 13 which aimed to safeguard and reduce human impacts on biodiversity.

Details

Language :
English
ISSN :
21678359
Volume :
7
Database :
Directory of Open Access Journals
Journal :
PeerJ
Publication Type :
Academic Journal
Accession number :
edsdoj.91117514e06f4da390279fe6cd76a2df
Document Type :
article
Full Text :
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.7221