Biodiversity and Climate Change

Biodiversity monitoring efforts worldwide engage the interest and concern of society segments as diverse as the ecotourism industry, the pharmaceutical industry, environmental organizations, the agricultural sector, and, of course, the scientific community.

 

The community of networks monitoring various aspects of biodiversity is highly diverse and topically focused. The challenge for building GEOSS in this realm is to assist these monitoring communities to develop comprehensive classification and observing strategies that will allow both observational standards and interoperability to emerge from the current monitoring activities, thus allowing global integration of data generated by these efforts.

 

The framework for monitoring biodiversity trends recently adopted within the UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will form the basis for further developments in this area.

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GEOSS AIP-2 Pika Biodiversity SBA Engineering Report

Scope: This AIP-2 ER will briefly describe the use scenario entitled "Pika Distribution" of the Climate Change and Biodiversity WG.  The ER describes how the GEOSS-based system was tested to predict how biodiversity will change with climate, for Pikas distribution in the Great Basin (North America). The architecture of the developed system is described, focusing on the GEOSS standard components and services utilized by the demonstration. Persistent Exemplars services identified are listed.

Point of Contact Editor:  S. Nativi

Contributing Editors: S.J. Khalsa, M. Santoro, C. Ray, E. O'Tuama, G. Geller, D. Thomas.

The final document is now available. (pdf)

GEOSS AIP-2 Arctic Food Chain Biodiversity SBA Engineering Report

Scope: This AIP-2 ER will briefly describe the use scenario entitled "Climate Change and Biodiversity Arctic Food Chain" of the Climate Change and Biodiversity WG. The ER describes how the GEOSS-based system was tested to assess the impact of climate change on the species of a simple food chain in the Arctic region. The architecture of the developed system is described, focusing on the GEOSS standard components and services utilized by the demonstration. Persistent Exemplars services identified are listed.

Point of Contact Editor:  S. Nativi

Contributing Editors: S.J. Khalsa, M. Santoro, F. Huettmann, E. O'Tuama, G. Geller, D. Thomas.

The final document is now available  (pdf)

GEOSS AIP-2 Polar Ecosystems Biodiversity SBA Engineering Report

Scope: This AIP-2 ER will describe the user scenario entitled "Polar Ecosystem Vegetation Changes Scenario". The ER describes how the GEOSS-based system was tested to identify the extent and degree of vegetation changes in response to climate change in arctic ecosystems, and in particular, the boreal-tundra ecotone. The architecture, workflow of the developed system is presented, the standards-based GEOSS components and services are highlighted.

Point of Contact Editor: Doug Nebert, USGS

Contributing Editors: Yuqi Bai, GMU;

The final document is now available.  (pdf)