Neil Brummitt

TL;DR: With the first plenary meeting of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) soon under way, partners are developing—and seeking consensus around—Essential Biod diversity Variables (EBVs) that could form the basis of monitoring programs worldwide.

TL;DR: This study provides a baseline assessment from which trends in the status of plant biodiversity can be measured and periodically reassessed and gives, for the first time, an accurate view of how threatened plants are across the world.

TL;DR: The distributions of endemic and endemic-threatened species of Myrtaceae were used to indicate areas of plant diversity and conservation importance within the Atlantic coastal forests of Brazil and those areas with the most endemic species were identified.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors classify sources of primary observations into four types: extensive and intensive monitoring schemes, ecological field studies and satellite remote sensing, and demonstrate the links between data sources, EBVs and indicators and discuss how different sources of biodiversity observations can be harnessed to inform EBVs.

TL;DR: In this paper, an increasingly popular approach, which has captured the imagination of the general public and policymakers alike, is the identification of biological hotspots-areas containing an exceptional concentration of biodiversity, measured by species richness, species endemism, number of threatened species, degree of habitat loss, or some surrogate for one or more of these methods.