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

Summary

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 science-policy 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.

Information

Link to centre authors: Elmqvist, Thomas

Publication info: Larigauderie, A., Prieur-Richard, A-H., Mace, G.M., Lonsdale, M., Mooney, H.A., Brussaard, L.,Cooper, D., Cramer, W., Daszak, P., Diaz, S., Duraiappah, A., Elmqvist, T., Faith, D.P., Jackson, L.E, Krug, C., Leadley, P.W., Le Prestre, P., Matsuda, H., Palmer, M., Perrings, C., Pulleman, M., Reyers, B., Rosa, E.A., Scholes, R. J., Spehn, E., Turner, I., Yahara, T. (2012) Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 4(1), 101-105

Request for publication