Despite the increasing number of tools and indicators to measure biodiversity status and
trends, many developing countries struggle to initiate and advance coastal and marine …

The SeaKeys project is a large collaborative three year marine research project (2013‐
2016) involving 30 team members from more than 17 different organisations. The project …

Indicators are effective tools for summarizing and communicating key aspects of ecosystem
state and have a long record of use in marine pollution and fisheries management. The …

The Census of Marine Life (2000–2010) was the largest global research programme on
marine biodiversity. This paper integrated the findings of reviews of major world regions by …

In 2004, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly approved a Regular Process to report
on the environmental, economic and social aspects of the world's ocean. The Regular …

Southern Ocean ecosystems offer numerous benefits to human society and the global
environment, and maintaining them requires well-informed and effective ecosystem-based …

This report presents the results of South Africa's National Biodiversity Assessment (NBA)
2011, which was led by the South African National Biodiversity Institute (SANBI) in …

Maintaining healthy, productive ecosystems in the face of pervasive and accelerating human
impacts including climate change requires globally coordinated and sustained observations …

Global declines in biodiversity, and the associated impacts on human wellbeing, have
triggered national and international agreements to reduce or halt these trends. The …

In this chapter, we identify the cross-sectoral decisions that require biodiversity data, then
summarize key challenges in Africa around the availability, usability and quality of data …