The local biodiversity intactness index is based on a purposebuilt global database of local biodiversity surveys combined with high resolution global landuse data. The abmi uses the biodiversity intactness index to report on the health of a species in a region. The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity teeb was a study led by pavan sukhdev from 2007 to 2011. For the full documentation, please see the source methodology. One in 10 uk wildlife species faces extinction, major. The magnitude and urgency of the biodiversity crisis is widely recognized within scientific and political organizations. Below, we describe how to derive reference conditions and calculate the intactness index. The biodiversity intactness index provides a useful anal. The importance of habitat degradation data article pdf available in global change biology 1211. It is an international initiative to draw attention to the global economic benefits of biodiversity.
A diversity index also called phylogenetic or simpsons diversity index is a quantitative measure that reflects how many different types such as species there are in a dataset a community and that can simultaneously take into account the phylogenetic relations among the individuals distributed among those types, such as richness, divergence or evenness. However, these documented benefits come with caveats. The biodiversity intactness index may underestimate losses. Thus, integrated biodiversity indexes will greatly facilitate information transfer from science toward other areas of human. Diversity indices usually used as biodiversity as in species, but can apply to other data where you count the number of times a particular category occurs e. Report to the north atlantic conservation cooperative, us fish and wildlife service, northeast region. The index represents the proportion of major taxa plants, mammals, birds, reptiles, and amphibians that can persist in an area given different land usecover scenarios relative. A biodiversity intactness index convention biological diversity. From the hot arid deserts of the sahara, through the lush green rainforests of the amazon, to the ocean depths and bright corals, our natural world is a marvel of different landscapes, materials, colours and textures. Biodiversity accounts and indices preliminary draft. Scholes and biggs biodiversity intactness index bii 2 makes a start in satisfying the many requirements, and provides a robust, sensitive but. This is the total number of species divided by the total number of organisms. Explain that the closer the biodiversity index is to 1, the more diverse the ecosystem is.
Assessing biodiversity intactness at multiple scales. It integrates information from remotelysensed forest change and landcover change datasets with modeled finescaled spatial variation in biodiversity composition. Pdf getting the biodiversity intactness index right. Given highlevel commitments to reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, there is a pressing need to develop simple and practical indicators to monitor progress. Its objective is to highlight the growing cost of biodiversity loss and ecosystem degradation and to draw together expertise from the fields of science, economics and policy to enable. Thegreypolygonrepresents the 95% confidence interval, whereas red dots give maximum and minimum. The index relies on a network of scientific experts, each of whom is responsible for one or more biodiversity indicators. The index provides estimates of human impacts on the intactness of local biodiversity worldwide, and how this may change over time.
Here, we propose a biodiversity intactness index bii for assessing progress towards this target. However, a lack of integrated measures for biodiversity has greatly constrained the national and international response to the biodiversity crisis. Review of multispecies indices for monitoring human. Thus, for purposes of documenting change, a single type of. The fact that the index incorporates both components of biodiversity can be seen as both a strength and a weakness.
Biodiversity habitat index forests biodiversity dashboard. The nations of the world have set themselves a target of reducing the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010. The nature index optimizes information use by incorporating expert judgment, monitoringbased estimates, and modelbased estimates. The biodiversity habitat index bhi estimates the impacts of habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation on the retention of terrestrial biodiversity. Msa is similar to the biodiversity integrity index majer and beeston 1996 and the biodiversity intactness index scholes and biggs 2005 and can be considered as a proxy for the cbd indicator on trends in species abundance unep 2004. The red line shows the average change acrossallcombinations ofgenes,species,ortraits. It refers to the totality of genes, species and ecosystems of a region there are 3 componentshierarchical levels of biodiversity 1genetic diversity. Practical strategies to achieve general biodiversity principles from. Pdf the nations of the world have set themselves a target of reducing the rate of. The index of ecological integrity iei is a measure of relative intactness i. In this context, a biodiversity intactness index bii was recently proposed, which provides an overall indicator suitable for policy makers.
Documentation of biodiversity is a foundation of any conservation action. The biodiversity intactness index has been proposed as one measure for assessing the impact of different land uses on a broad range of taxa scholes and biggs, 2005. The economics of ecosystems and biodiversity wikipedia. The variation of the genes could be in alleles, in. Scotland takes you on a trip around eight main habitats of scotland, highlighting some of the pressures on wildlife and giving numerous examples of how governments, nongovernmental organisations ngos, the private sector and the public are working together to bring back nature. Here, we propose a biodiversity intactness index bii for assessing progress towards this target that is simple and practicalbut sensitive to important factors that in.
An assessment of the potential biodiversity impacts from. Using this dataset, they calculated the global biodiversity intactness index bii, an index used to describe changes in the number of species present, or species abundance, in a given region. Accessible explanation of the abmi biodiversity intactness index, including rationale, calculation, and use. Mcgarigal k, compton bw, plunkett eb, deluca wv, and grand j. Zipped ascii file of data used in figure s4 of newbold et al. It also includes the indices abmi has developed to assess the intactness or deviation from reference condition for species, groups of species, and habitat features. Here, we propose a biodiversity intactness index bii for assessing progress towards this. The calculation is based on the number species in an area, dependent upon richness number of unique species and abundance number of individual species. The shannon index increases as both the richness and the evenness of the community increase. Effectiveness of private land conservation areas in.
Global map of the biodiversity intactness index, from. Pdf effectiveness of private land conservation areas in. More than one in 10 of the uks wildlife species are. General management principles and a checklist of strategies to guide forest biodiversity conservation. Then each participant will determine a simplified version of the biodiversity index for their ecosystem. Here, we propose a biodiversity intactness index bii for assessing progress towards this target that is simple and practical but sensitive to. The approach uses existing biome or vegetationtype classi. The local biodiversity intactness index, developed by predicts, is included in the. At 100% intact, the abundance of both species is equal to the abundance expected in an. The biodiversity intactness index has been proposed as one measur e for assessing the impact of different land uses on a broad range of taxa scholes and biggs, 2005. Nearly 45,000 species of plants and twice as many of animals have been recorded from india. The biodiversity intactness index algorithm the derivation and logic of the bii are given in scholes and biggs in prep. In this context, a biodiversity intactness index bii was recently proposed, which provides an.
Condition and trends of ecosystem services and biodiversity. The biodiversity intactness index bii was proposed as an aggregate index providing synthetic information on the state of biodiversity in a given area scholes and biggs, 2005. The biodiversity intactness index bii is a high profile metric of an areas average abundance of wild species relative to that in. Agricultural development and land use change in india. Documentation of biodiversity status in mandla district of. This activity asks students to sort seashells and calculate the simpsons biodiversity index. Livestock environmental assessment and performance leap partnership. The main difference between msa and bii is that every hectare is given equal weight in msa, whereas bii.
The biodiversity intactness index bii, a broad based biodiversity indicator, was used to assess the biodiversity implications of transforming available land to biofuels. Generally, the safe limit is placed at a precautionary 10% reduction in bii, meaning that species abundance within a given habitat is 90% of its. A dead hedgehog trapped in an electric fence on a farm in suffolk. Methodology the biodiversity intactness dataset shows global estimates of how land use. Mace the global community is committed to reducing the rate of loss of biodiversity, but how can progress be measured. Dominance indices are weighted toward the abundance of the commonest species. No reference to the ecological integrity index could be found in the 2016 march version of the technical description of the globio model.
The bii indicates losses of biodiversity between 17. In essence, bii is a richnessandarea weighted average of the population impact of a set of land use activities, on a given groups of organisms, in a given area. Brief outlines of the two types of diversity indices of biodiversity are discussed in this article. A novel system to tackle the problem may also identify key factors behind the changes. Standards and protocols data analysis subject area. We use the biodiversity intactness index bii for quantifying the impact of land use change on biodiversity.
The biodiversity intactness index bii has been proposed as one measure for assessing the impact of different land uses on a broad range of taxa scholes and biggs 2005 the index represents the. Reporting of intactness can occur hierarchically at any level, using the same speciesspeci. The variable plotted, biodiversity intactness index, is the modeled average abundance of originallypresent species, relative to their abundance in an intact ecosystem. Green areas are those within safe limits for biodiversity, and red areas are those beyond proposed safe limits. The conceptual model behind the bii is equivalent to the nci. That is what makes our country one of the 12 mega diversity countries of the world. Biodiversity research and science development methodology development, standards and protocols data analysis. The subsequent group of indices all relate to the biodiversity intactness index bii. Average proportion of natural biodiversity remaining in local ecosystems in 2005. Biodiversity and conservation although india h as only 2.
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