GC11C:
Development of Essential Biodiversity Variables: Progress and Challenges Posters

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Session ID#: 25109

Session Description:
Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) are being developed by the Group on Earth Observation’s (GEO) Biodiversity Observation Network (BON). EBVs are those variables required to study, report, and manage biodiversity change, focusing on status and trends in elements of biodiversity. Candidate EBVs, which cover terrestrial and aquatic realms, include phenology, ecosystem extent and fragmentation, and species occurrence (see http://geobon.org/essential-biodiversity-variables for a full list). Because Earth observing satellites make frequent, repeated observations across the globe, they are often a key input to numerous EBVs. Although this session will focus on EBVs with a significant remote sensing component, we welcome any EBV development abstract, as EBVs should be measurement agnostic. The goal for this session is to bring together those who are thinking about EBV development to share ideas, progress, challenges, and lessons learned, with the ultimate aim of moving forward a collective set of EBVs and identifying observing requirements.
Primary Convener:  Allison K Leidner, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States; Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, United States
Conveners:  Gary N Geller, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, Marc Paganini, European Space Research Institute, Frascati, Italy and William Turner, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
Chairs:  Allison K Leidner, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States and William Turner, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Allison K Leidner, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States

Cross-Listed:
  • B - Biogeosciences
  • IN - Earth and Space Science Informatics
  • OS - Ocean Sciences
Index Terms:

0410 Biodiversity [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
0439 Ecosystems, structure and dynamics [BIOGEOSCIENCES]
1622 Earth system modeling [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1640 Remote sensing [GLOBAL CHANGE]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Essential Biodiversity Variables: A framework for communication between the biodiversity community and space agencies (274373)
Allison K Leidner1,2, Andrew K Skidmore3, William W Turner1 and Gary N Geller4, (1)NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Department of the Interior Washington DC, Washington, United States, (3)University of Twente, Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), Enschede, Netherlands, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Developing spectral, structural, and phenological diversity proxies for monitoring biodiversity change across space and time using ESA’s Sentinel satellites (276205)
Xuanlong Ma1,2, Miguel Mahecha2,3, Mirco Migliavacca3, Yunpeng Luo4, Marcel Urban5, Friedrich J. Bohn6,7, Andreas Huth8,9 and Markus Reichstein10,11, (1)Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, (2)German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv), Leipzig, Germany, (3)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Department of Biogeochemical Integration, Jena, Germany, (4)Max-Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (5)Friedrich Schiller University, Institute for Geography, Jena, Germany, (6)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany, (7)University of Osnabrük, Institute for Environmental System Research, Osnabrük, Germany, (8)Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research - UFZ, Department of Ecological Modelling, Leipzig, Germany, (9)University of Osnabruek, Institute for Environmental System Research, Osnabruek, Germany, (10)Max Planck Institute for Biogeochemistry, Jena, Germany, (11)Integrative Center for Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany
Evaluation and application of new AVIRIS data for the study of coral reefs in Hawaiian Islands (277339)
Jianwei Wei and Zhongping Lee, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, MA, United States
Demonstration of SST value as EBVs descriptor in the Mediterranean Sea (283649)
Emiliana Valentini1, Federico Filipponi1, Alessandra Nguyen Xuan2 and Andrea Taramelli2, (1)Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Rome, Italy, (2)Eucentre Foundation, European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering, Pavia, Italy
The Bird Community Resilience Index: a novel remote sensing-based biodiversity variable for quantifying ecological integrity (283750)
Nicole L Michel1, Chad Wilsey1, Curtis Burkhalter2, Brian Trusty3 and Gary Langham4, (1)National Audubon Society, San Francisco, CA, United States, (2)National Audubon Society, Jacksonville, FL, United States, (3)National Audubon Society, Dallas, TX, United States, (4)National Audubon Society, Washington, DC, United States
A Framework for Effective Assessment of Model-based Projections of Biodiversity to Inform the Next Generation of Global Conservation Targets (286478)
Bonnie Myers, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, Reston, VA, United States, T. Douglas Beard, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Reston, VA, United States, Sarah R Weiskopf, National Climate Adaptation Science Center, Reston, VA, United States, Stephen T Jackson, USGS Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, Tucson, AZ, United States, Derek Tittensor, United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Halifax, NS, Canada, Mike Harfoot, United Nations Environment Program World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom, Gabriel B Senay, Earth Resources Observation Systems Sioux Falls, Sioux Falls, SD, United States, Kimberly Casey, USGS Headquarters, National Land Imaging Program, Reston, United States, Tim Michael Lenton, University of Exeter, Global Systems Institute, Exeter, United Kingdom, Allison K Leidner, NASA Headquarters, Earth Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, Alexander C Ruane, NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, New York, NY, United States, Simon Ferrier, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, Canberra, Australia, Dr. Shawn Serbin, BA, MS, PhD, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Environmental Science and Technologies Department, Upton, United States, Hiroyuki Matsuda, Yokohama National University, Yokohama, Japan, Alexey N Shiklomanov, Boston University, Boston, MA, United States and Isabel Rosa, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research, Leipzig, Germany
Assessing diversity of prairie plants using remote sensing (289787)
Ran Wang, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, NE, United States and John Arthur Gamon, University of Nebraska Lincoln, School of Natural Resources, Lincoln, United States

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