Jean-Baptiste Mihoub

TL;DR: A meta-analysis focussing on birds suggests that global warming has not systematically affected morphological traits, but has advanced phenological traits and indicates that the evolutionary load imposed by incomplete adaptive responses to ongoing climate change may already be threatening the persistence of species.

TL;DR: The challenges of a ‘Big Data’ approach to building global EBV data products across taxa and spatiotemporal scales, focusing on species distribution and abundance are assessed.

TL;DR: It is argued that the current state of integration between ecological and land system sciences is leading to biased estimation of actual risks and therefore constrains the implementation of forward-looking policy responses to biodiversity decline and suggests research directions at the crossroads between ecology and environmental sciences to face the challenge of developing interoperable and plausible projections of future environmental changes.

TL;DR: The reporting requirements for the most comprehensive policy instrument, the United Nation's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, were compared with the indicator set actually used for its reporting, to identify current information gaps.

TL;DR: The concept of essential biodiversity variables (EBVs) was introduced tostructure biodiversity monitoring globally, and to harmonize and standardize biodiversity data from disparate sourcesto capture a minimum set of critical variables required to study, report and manage biodiversity change as discussed by the authors.