“Biodiversity monitoring knowledge gaps and research & innovation priorities”
Biodiversa+ aims to support the use of biodiversity monitoring data by research and in decision making.
In early 2022, a workshop gathering 38 experts allowed to identify knowledge gaps and research priorities related to the testing and application of new tools, technologies and approaches for biodiversity monitoring by researchers (including approaches like citizen science) and the use of monitoring data by research & innovation (R&I). These knowledge gaps were listed in a report which then fed the development of the BiodivMon research call on “Improved transnational monitoring of biodiversity and ecosystem change for science and society”.
In September 2022, another expert workshop gathering 31 participants was organised and aimed at identifying how to use biodiversity monitoring data to produce trends and scenarios and how to harmonise trend analysis for a better use at larger scale. The results of this workshop fed into the Biodiversa+ strategic biodiversity monitoring governance document (Phase 1).