Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012–20

PRIEUR-RICHARD AH; MACE GM; LONDSDALE M; BRUSSAARD L; COOPER D; CRAMER W; DASZAK P; DIAZ S; ET AL.

Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Elsevier

Lugar: Oxford; Año: 2012 vol. 4 p. 101 - 105

1877-3435

DIVERSITAS, the international programme on biodiversity science, is releasing a strategic vision presenting scientific challenges for the next decade of research on biodiversity and ecosystem services: ‘‘Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science for a Sustainable Planet’’. This new vision is a response of the biodiversity and ecosystem services scientific community to the accelerating loss of the components of biodiversity, as well as to changes in the biodiversity sciencepolicy landscape (establishment of a Biodiversity Observing Network — GEO BON, of an Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services — IPBES, of the new Future Earth initiative; and release of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020). This article presents the vision and its core scientific challenges. its core scientific challenges. –2020). This article presents the vision and its core scientific challenges.