BIODIVERSITY OBSERVATIONS FOR A BETTER FUTURE
Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs), defined as the derived measurements required to study, report, and manage biodiversity change, focusing on status and trend in elements of biodiversity. EBVs play the role of brokers between monitoring initiatives and decision makers. They provide the first level of abstraction between low-level primary observations and high-level indicators of biodiversity.
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Global
Mean percentage of global tree canopy cover in the year 2000, defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height.
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National
Datasets present the yearly maps of the start of vegetation active period (VAP) in coniferous forests and deciduous vegetation during 2001-2019 in Finland. The start of the vegetation active period is defined a...
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Global
Changes in bird diversity at 1-degree resolution caused by land use, estimated by the cSAR model for 1900-2015 using LUH2.0 historical reconstruction of land-use.
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Global
Changes in average local terrestrial diversity for each grid cell caused by land-use, land-use intensity, and human population density, estimated by the PREDICTS model (Purvis et al., 2018). It reports the numb...
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Ecosystem structure
Mean percentage of global tree canopy cover in the year 2000, defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height.
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Ecosystem functioning
Datasets present the yearly maps of the start of vegetation active period (VAP) in coniferous forests and deciduous vegetation during 2001-2019 in Finland. The start of the vegetation active period is defined a...
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Community composition
Changes in bird diversity at 1-degree resolution caused by land use, estimated by the cSAR model for 1900-2015 using LUH2.0 historical reconstruction of land-use.
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Community composition
Changes in average local terrestrial diversity for each grid cell caused by land-use, land-use intensity, and human population density, estimated by the PREDICTS model (Purvis et al., 2018). It reports the numb...
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Terrestrial
Mean percentage of global tree canopy cover in the year 2000, defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height.
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Terrestrial
Datasets present the yearly maps of the start of vegetation active period (VAP) in coniferous forests and deciduous vegetation during 2001-2019 in Finland. The start of the vegetation active period is defined a...
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Terrestrial
Changes in bird diversity at 1-degree resolution caused by land use, estimated by the cSAR model for 1900-2015 using LUH2.0 historical reconstruction of land-use.
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Terrestrial
Changes in average local terrestrial diversity for each grid cell caused by land-use, land-use intensity, and human population density, estimated by the PREDICTS model (Purvis et al., 2018). It reports the numb...
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Decade
Mean percentage of global tree canopy cover in the year 2000, defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height.
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Yearly
Datasets present the yearly maps of the start of vegetation active period (VAP) in coniferous forests and deciduous vegetation during 2001-2019 in Finland. The start of the vegetation active period is defined a...
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Decade
Changes in bird diversity at 1-degree resolution caused by land use, estimated by the cSAR model for 1900-2015 using LUH2.0 historical reconstruction of land-use.
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Decadal
Changes in average local terrestrial diversity for each grid cell caused by land-use, land-use intensity, and human population density, estimated by the PREDICTS model (Purvis et al., 2018). It reports the numb...
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Ecosystem Types
Mean percentage of global tree canopy cover in the year 2000, defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height.
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Vegetation
Datasets present the yearly maps of the start of vegetation active period (VAP) in coniferous forests and deciduous vegetation during 2001-2019 in Finland. The start of the vegetation active period is defined a...
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Community Types
Changes in bird diversity at 1-degree resolution caused by land use, estimated by the cSAR model for 1900-2015 using LUH2.0 historical reconstruction of land-use.
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Community Types
Changes in average local terrestrial diversity for each grid cell caused by land-use, land-use intensity, and human population density, estimated by the PREDICTS model (Purvis et al., 2018). It reports the numb...
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Florian Wolf
Mean percentage of global tree canopy cover in the year 2000, defined as canopy closure for all vegetation taller than 5m in height.
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Kristin Böttcher
Datasets present the yearly maps of the start of vegetation active period (VAP) in coniferous forests and deciduous vegetation during 2001-2019 in Finland. The start of the vegetation active period is defined a...
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Ines Martins, Henrique Pereira
Changes in bird diversity at 1-degree resolution caused by land use, estimated by the cSAR model for 1900-2015 using LUH2.0 historical reconstruction of land-use.
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Andy Purvis
Changes in average local terrestrial diversity for each grid cell caused by land-use, land-use intensity, and human population density, estimated by the PREDICTS model (Purvis et al., 2018). It reports the numb...
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