Global modelling of local biodiversity responses to human impacts
Lead Research Organisation:
Natural History Museum
Department Name: Life Sciences
Abstract
Biodiversity is declining. Despite the commitment made by the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) to reduce the rate of biodiversity loss by 2010, all the evidence shows that biodiversity is declining at steady or even accelerating rates, and that the pressures behind the decline are if anything getting worse. This is bad news, because every person in every country depends on ecosystem services - benefits that ecological systems provide to people - and the biodiversity that underpins it. These links are most direct for the hundreds of millions of people in the world's poorest countries who depend on local biodiversity for food, fibres, medicines and fuel.
As the deadline for the 2010 target came and went, problems became apparent with the biodiversity indicators scientists have used to assess trends. Because the 2010 target needed to be assessed quickly, existing indicators were designed around sets of data that researchers had already collated together. This led to biases because we know more about charismatic vertebrates than about insects, more about temperate than tropical biodiversity, and more about populations of single species than about the ecological communities of which they are parts. The rush also meant that some indicators might not be rigorous enough to support policy decisions - a real concern, given how any apparent weakness in the evidence for human-caused climate change is leapt on by vociferous critics. There is a need for scientifically rigorous indicators that reflect threats to biodiversity, the state of biodiversity, ecosystem services and policy responses.
The main threats facing biodiversity (often termed drivers or pressures) are the destruction, degradation and fragmentation of habitats, and the damage to individuals' fitness caused by exploitation, pollution and introduction of species from other parts of the world. We know that the highest proportions of threatened mammals, birds and amphibians are found in those regions where human pressures have recently become intense. We also know that some species and ecosystems have characteristics that make them better able than others to persist in spite of human actions. An urgent priority for research, therefore, is to model how the state of biodiversity is affected not only by threat intensities but also by ecological characteristics. Such a model will let us understand the complex spatial, temporal, taxonomic and ecological patterns of decline. We will also be able to use those models to make projections that can inform and support policy.
This proposal is a true partnership between a world-class university (Imperial College London), an intergovernmental conservation organisation (UNEP-WCMC), a leading biodiversity research institute (Institute of Zoology) and a world-leading technology company (Microsoft Research), sharing the aim of integrating existing data on biodiversity and human threats to produce the best possible basis for policy. We will also use the framework we develop to tackle a wide range of both fundamental and policy-relevant questions in biodiversity science.
UNEP-WCMC will use the framework for biodiversity projections in response to requests from decision-makers, including the international conventions, governments and businesses. We will meet guidelines laid down by the nascent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to ensure the framework is fit for purpose. Because the framework is being developed as a true partnership between project partners, it will translate directly into evaluations of policy options for biodiversity management.
As the deadline for the 2010 target came and went, problems became apparent with the biodiversity indicators scientists have used to assess trends. Because the 2010 target needed to be assessed quickly, existing indicators were designed around sets of data that researchers had already collated together. This led to biases because we know more about charismatic vertebrates than about insects, more about temperate than tropical biodiversity, and more about populations of single species than about the ecological communities of which they are parts. The rush also meant that some indicators might not be rigorous enough to support policy decisions - a real concern, given how any apparent weakness in the evidence for human-caused climate change is leapt on by vociferous critics. There is a need for scientifically rigorous indicators that reflect threats to biodiversity, the state of biodiversity, ecosystem services and policy responses.
The main threats facing biodiversity (often termed drivers or pressures) are the destruction, degradation and fragmentation of habitats, and the damage to individuals' fitness caused by exploitation, pollution and introduction of species from other parts of the world. We know that the highest proportions of threatened mammals, birds and amphibians are found in those regions where human pressures have recently become intense. We also know that some species and ecosystems have characteristics that make them better able than others to persist in spite of human actions. An urgent priority for research, therefore, is to model how the state of biodiversity is affected not only by threat intensities but also by ecological characteristics. Such a model will let us understand the complex spatial, temporal, taxonomic and ecological patterns of decline. We will also be able to use those models to make projections that can inform and support policy.
This proposal is a true partnership between a world-class university (Imperial College London), an intergovernmental conservation organisation (UNEP-WCMC), a leading biodiversity research institute (Institute of Zoology) and a world-leading technology company (Microsoft Research), sharing the aim of integrating existing data on biodiversity and human threats to produce the best possible basis for policy. We will also use the framework we develop to tackle a wide range of both fundamental and policy-relevant questions in biodiversity science.
UNEP-WCMC will use the framework for biodiversity projections in response to requests from decision-makers, including the international conventions, governments and businesses. We will meet guidelines laid down by the nascent Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to ensure the framework is fit for purpose. Because the framework is being developed as a true partnership between project partners, it will translate directly into evaluations of policy options for biodiversity management.
Planned Impact
We have identified three major beneficiaries from our proposal, as follows:
1. International policy organisations: Outputs from out empirical models have the potential inform international agreements and processes, such as model intercomparisons for the nascent Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), or new assessments being established, e.g. UNEP's ongoing Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series or for future Global Biodiversity Outlooks (GBO) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Further, biodiversity scenarios could inform decision making on the implementation of mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) being negotiated under UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For all these potential impacts, transparency, relevance and scientific rigour are extremely important. We will report completed findings from our models and projections in the next Global Environment Outlook report and in the follow-up to TEEB.
The biodiversity database created in this project could form part of the UK's contribution towards the Biodiversity Societal Benefit Area of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), in particular the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON).
UNEP-WCMC will use the framework for biodiversity projections in response to requests from decision-makers, including the international conventions, governments and businesses. We will meet guidelines laid down by the newly-formed Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to ensure the framework is fit for purpose. Because the framework is being developed as a true partnership between project partners, it will translate directly into evaluations of policy options for biodiversity management.
2. UK and other national governments: Model scenario outputs at sub-global spatial resolution might be of interest to national governments for national-scale biodiversity assessments and biodiversity conservation planning. Additionally, the UK government is a member of GEO, through Defra, so may benefit directly if the project fulfils part of their obligations.
3. Biodiversity conservation researchers: The empirical data bases that underpin our biodiversity models will add value to existing empirical data on biodiversity patterns, hopefully motivating further collection and collation of relevant data. Additionally, many researchers will be interested in results from the answers our analyses provide to a range of questions having both pure and applied interest; e.g., whether reductions in different facets of biodiversity - such as local abundance, functional diversity, or spatial turnover - decline smoothly and in step as threats increase or instead show possibly different thresholds; and whether biodiversity patterns in well-studied groups like mammals and birds can be used to predict broader patterns.
1. International policy organisations: Outputs from out empirical models have the potential inform international agreements and processes, such as model intercomparisons for the nascent Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), or new assessments being established, e.g. UNEP's ongoing Global Environment Outlook (GEO) series or for future Global Biodiversity Outlooks (GBO) of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Further, biodiversity scenarios could inform decision making on the implementation of mechanisms to reduce emissions from deforestation and forest degradation (REDD+) being negotiated under UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). For all these potential impacts, transparency, relevance and scientific rigour are extremely important. We will report completed findings from our models and projections in the next Global Environment Outlook report and in the follow-up to TEEB.
The biodiversity database created in this project could form part of the UK's contribution towards the Biodiversity Societal Benefit Area of the Group on Earth Observations (GEO), in particular the GEO Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON).
UNEP-WCMC will use the framework for biodiversity projections in response to requests from decision-makers, including the international conventions, governments and businesses. We will meet guidelines laid down by the newly-formed Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) to ensure the framework is fit for purpose. Because the framework is being developed as a true partnership between project partners, it will translate directly into evaluations of policy options for biodiversity management.
2. UK and other national governments: Model scenario outputs at sub-global spatial resolution might be of interest to national governments for national-scale biodiversity assessments and biodiversity conservation planning. Additionally, the UK government is a member of GEO, through Defra, so may benefit directly if the project fulfils part of their obligations.
3. Biodiversity conservation researchers: The empirical data bases that underpin our biodiversity models will add value to existing empirical data on biodiversity patterns, hopefully motivating further collection and collation of relevant data. Additionally, many researchers will be interested in results from the answers our analyses provide to a range of questions having both pure and applied interest; e.g., whether reductions in different facets of biodiversity - such as local abundance, functional diversity, or spatial turnover - decline smoothly and in step as threats increase or instead show possibly different thresholds; and whether biodiversity patterns in well-studied groups like mammals and birds can be used to predict broader patterns.
Organisations
- Natural History Museum (Lead Research Organisation)
- Group on Earth Observations (GEO) (Collaboration)
- Biodiversity Indicators Partnership (Collaboration)
- Stanford University (Collaboration)
- Bioversity International (Collaboration)
- French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (Collaboration)
- National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) (Collaboration)
- German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (Collaboration)
- Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (Collaboration)
- Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (Collaboration)
Publications
Tittensor DP
(2014)
A mid-term analysis of progress toward international biodiversity targets.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
Seppelt R
(2016)
Harmonizing Biodiversity Conservation and Productivity in the Context of Increasing Demands on Landscapes
in BioScience
Secretariat Of The Convention On Biological Diversity
(2014)
Global Biodiversity Outlook 4
Purvis A
(2016)
State of Nature 2016
Purvis A
(2018)
Next Generation Biomonitoring: Part 1
Powney G
(2014)
Can trait-based analyses of changes in species distribution be transferred to new geographic areas?
in Global Ecology and Biogeography
Phillips HRP
(2017)
Land-use effects on local biodiversity in tropical forests vary between continents.
in Biodiversity and conservation
Phillips H
(2017)
The effect of fragment area on site-level biodiversity
in Ecography
Description | In terms of science, we have shown that land use and associated human pressures have severe and negative global effects on local terrestrial biodiversity. We have estimated the global average reduction in local species richness caused so far by these pressures, and projected losses forwards to 2100 under four alternative land-use scenarios that relate to different climate mitigation strategies. A particularly important finding is that a biofuel-based mitigation strategy, though effective for climate, could have serious effects on biodiversity worldwide. We published this work as an Article in Nature (Newbold et al. Nature 520:45-50, 2015). Subsequent analysis showed that land use has pushed terrestrial biodiversity below proposed safe limits ('planetary boundaries') across most of the world's land surface (Newbold et al. 2016 Science 353:288-291), raising serious concerns about the possibilities of sustainable development. The indicator of biodiversity we developed for this paper - the Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) - is being widely adopted within the conservation/policy field, as it reflects broad-sense biodiversity (in contrast to most existing indicators, which focus on a particular taxonomic group, e.g., vertebrates). We also showed that terrestrial protected areas are moderately effective in retaining more biodiversity than nearby unprotected sites (Gray et al. 2016 Nature Communications 7:12306). Much of this effect can be attributed to protected areas (such as national parks) seeing less land use change, but there are also additional biodiversity benefits from protection. This finding is important because protected areas are a major plank in global conservation strategies, but their overall effectiveness for biodiversity conservation has not been assessed. Most recently, the PREDICTS database was used to demonstrate that biotic homogenization is a ubiquitous response to land-use change (Newbold et al. 2018 PLos Biology) and to project the future of African biodiversity under land-use change and climate change (Newbold 2018 Proc R Soc B). Our models are based on a database we have collated which is unprecedented in its size, taxonomic breadth and geographic coverage. It contains 2.5% as many species as are known to science, and has over 29000 sites from nearly countries worldwide. One of the most important things we have found is that literally hundreds of scientists worldwide are willing to share their data so that global models can be produced. Our database has therefore had the additional benefit of 'rescuing' many datasets that were previously at risk of being lost to science. Version 1.0 of this database has now been made freely available via the Natural History Museum's data portal (data.nhm.ac.uk), and we have published an open-access database paper (Hudson et al. 2017 Ecology & Evolution 7:145-188). |
Exploitation Route | Our implementation of the Biodiversity Intactness Index has been adopted as a "Core indicator" by IPBES, to be used wherever possible in its assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services. It has also been accepted as a new indicator by the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership. UNEP-WCMC has taken outputs from our models and used them in its conservation 'dashboard', providing country-specific estimates of how much terrestrial biodiversity has been lost. Our data and models are already been widely used in other research. |
Sectors | Agriculture Food and Drink Environment Culture Heritage Museums and Collections |
URL | http://www.predicts.org.uk |
Description | Our global models of how local biodiversity have responded to land-use and associated changes were used in UNEP-WCMC's report, 'Towards a global map of natural capital: key ecosystem assets'; the same map fed into UNEP-WCMC's report on protected areas, Protected Planet 2014. Our models were also used to make projections of future changes under alternative land-use scenarios in Global Biodiversity Outlook 4. Both of these are major policy-oriented reports, marshalling the latest leading science. The indicator of broad-sense biodiversity that we published in our 2016 Science paper, Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII), has been adopted by the Convention on Biological Diversity as being suitable for use in tracking progress towards the Aichi 2020 Biodiversity Targets, has been adopted by the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, and is on a list of core indicators developed by IPBES, meaning it is an indicator that is recommended for use. We contributed to the 2016 UK State of Nature report, with an UK-wide analysis of BII which also compared the UK's levels of BII with those of other countries. Outputs from our 2015 Nature paper and 2016 Science paper were requested by and provided to the IPBES Regional Assessments for Europe & Central Asia and Africa, as well as for the IPBES Global Assessment, where this project's results featured in four chapters and the Summary for Policymakers. They also fed into the 2018 Living Planet Report. They also fed into the Dasgupta Review into the Economics of Biodiversity being conducted for HM Treasury |
First Year Of Impact | 2014 |
Sector | Environment |
Impact Types | Economic Policy & public services |
Description | Adoption of Biodiversity Intactness Index as a core indicator by IPBES |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.ipbes.net/indicators/core |
Description | Advised on POSTNote on Environmental Trends |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PN-0516 |
Description | Biodiversity Intactness Index has been accepted into the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Description | Biodiversity Intactness Index referenced in House of Commons debate on environmental protection, 18 Oct 2016 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://hansard.parliament.uk/commons/2016-10-18/debates/6D8A2C6D-A670-434B-892F-EDC06D9DE4D3/Enviro... |
Description | Biodiversity Intactness Index reported extensively in Living Planet Report |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://wwf.panda.org/about_our_earth/all_publications/lpr_2016/ |
Description | Citation in Global Biodiversity Debate in Westminster |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2016-0198#fullreport |
Description | Citation in Global Biodiversity Debate in Westminster |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/CDP-2016-0198#fullreport |
Description | Citation in POST note - Urban Green Infrastructure and Ecosystem Services |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://researchbriefings.parliament.uk/ResearchBriefing/Summary/POST-PB-0026 |
Description | Influenced Natural History Museum's decisions to declare a planetary emergency and place it at the heart of its strategy for the next decade |
Geographic Reach | Local/Municipal/Regional |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
Impact | The Natural History Museum declared a Planetary Emergency in January 2020. The findings from this project were among the reasons for the decision, in terms of both the state of global biodiversity and the Museum's expertise in biodiversity modelling. The new strategy, for 2021-2030, includes a major strand of research and public engagement in Anthropocene biodiversity. To quote the strategy directly: "We are living in the age of humans. We have become the single most influential species on the planet, causing significant changes to land, oceans, atmosphere and organisms. It is a time referred to by many as the anthropocene. We are part of a complex, global system and the evidence of our impact on this system is clear. Our planet's global ecology has never been in such a critical state as it is today, yet never have we been better equipped with the tools to understand what is happening, and what needs to be done. We will focus our science and engagement to help people understand what our planet has undergone in the past, how life has responded to environmental changes, and in so doing find ways to more effectively predict, plan and effect change for the future." This has already led to a new exhibition on Our Broken Planet (Purvis and De Palma helped with choosing specimens to exhibit and the narratives they embody) and a series of events under the Our Broken Planet name. Purvis and De Palma featured in one of the first events in the series, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eg3Spw0C-g8&list=TLGGZQ3iKdwK_-QxMzAyMjAyMQ |
URL | https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/january/we-are-declaring-a-planetary-emergency.html |
Description | Key result shown at IPCC COP21 side event, "Biodiversity & Climate Change" |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.fondationbiodiversite.fr/fr/?option=com_content&view=article&id=709:side-event-bourget-co... |
Description | Main scientific advisor on "Extinction: The Facts" documentary, presented by Sir David Attenborough, on BBC1 on 13th September 2020 |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Influenced training of practitioners or researchers |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mn4n/extinction-the-facts |
Description | PREDICTS models and projections of biodiversity featured in Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.cbd.int/gbo4/ |
Description | Produced global map of terrestrial species-richness intactness used in Natural Capital report |
Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | http://www.unep-wcmc.org/system/dataset_file_fields/files/000/000/232/original/NCR-LR_Mixed.pdf?1406... |
Description | Reported on state of UK biodiversity in 2016 State of Nature report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Citation in other policy documents |
URL | https://www.rspb.org.uk/globalassets/downloads/documents/conservation-projects/state-of-nature/state... |
Description | Earthwatch scheme - funding for Earthworm Watch |
Amount | £13,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Earthwatch Institute |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2016 |
Title | Data from: The present and future effects of land use on ecological assemblages in tropical grasslands and savannas in Africa |
Description | The world is currently experiencing a period of rapid, human-driven biodiversity loss. Over the past decade, numerous metrics for biodiversity have been used to create indicators to track change in biodiversity. However, our ability to predict future changes has been limited. In this study, we use two very different models to predict the status and possible futures for the composition and diversity of ecological assemblages in African tropical grasslands and savannas under land-use change. We show that ecological assemblages are affected more by land use in African grasslands and savannas than in other biomes. We estimate that average losses of assemblage composition and diversity are already between 9.7 and 42.0%, depending on the model and measure used. If current socio-economic trajectories continue ('business-as-usual'), the likely associated land-use changes are predicted to lead to a further 5.6-12.3% loss of assemblage composition and diversity. In contrast, a scenario that assumes more efficient use of agricultural areas (thus requiring a smaller total area) could be associated with a partial reversal ? of as much as 3.2% ? of past losses. While the agriculture that causes the majority of land-use change is an important source of economic growth, projections of the effects of land use on ecological assemblages can allow for more informed decisions. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Supported peer-reviewed publication. |
URL | https://datadryad.org/stash/dataset/doi:10.5061/dryad.qs1k6 |
Title | PREDICTS biodiversity database |
Description | Design and implementation of database to hold biodiversity data provided by other researchers, and import of the first 500,000 records |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | Developing this database led to important refinements in our processes for obtaining, processing, curating and managing data, strengthening the project as a whole. |
URL | http://www.predicts.org.uk |
Title | PREDICTS database (update) |
Description | The PREDICTS database now holds over 3.3 million records, covering over 50,000 species (2.5% as many as have been formally described) and over 29,000 sites (from 97 countries). We published a paper describing how the database was put together in 2014, making study-level metadata available. A manuscript describing and releasing the full database is currently in draft; we had intended to submit it for publication by now but it will be submitted within a few weeks. |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Provided To Others? | No |
Impact | This database underpins all of the analyses undertaken as part of the PREDICTS project, including our 2015 Nature paper (Newbold et al. Nature 520:45-50). |
Title | The 2016 release of the PREDICTS database |
Description | A dataset of 3,250,404 measurements, collated from 26,114 sampling locations in 94 countries and representing 47,044 species. The data were collated from 480 existing spatial comparisons of local-scale biodiversity exposed to different intensities and types of anthropogenic pressures, from terrestrial sites around the world. The database was assembled as part of the PREDICTS project - Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems; www.predicts.org.uk. The taxonomic identifications provided in the original data sets are those determined at the time of the original research, and so will not reflect subsequent taxonomic changes. This dataset is described in 10.1002/ece3.2579. A description of the way that this dataset was assembled is given in 10.1002/ece3.1303. columns.csv: Description of data extract columns database.zip: Database in zipped CSV format database.rds: Database in RDS format sites.zip: Site-level summaries in compressed CSV format sites.rds: Site-level summaries in RDS format references.csv: Data references in CSV format references.bib: Data references in BibTeX format |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2016 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | The PREDICTS database underpins all the analytical publications from this grant. The most notable impact is that the Biodiversity Intactness Index (from Newbold et al. 2016 Science) is being widely adopted as an indicator of how broad-sense biodiversity is responding to human pressures around land-use change, already featuring in e.g. the 2016 UK State of Nature report. |
URL | http://data.nhm.ac.uk/dataset/the-2016-release-of-the-predicts-database |
Description | Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) has been approved by the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership |
Organisation | Biodiversity Indicators Partnership |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Learned Society |
PI Contribution | Building on a paper we published in 2016, we applied to add our implementation of a key biodiversity indicator, the Biodiversity Intactness Index, to the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, a global initiative to promote the development and delivery of biodiversity indicators by responding to the indicator requests of the CBD and other biodiversity-related Conventions, for IPBES, for reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals, and for use by national and regional governments. This application,made in May 2017, was approved in February 2018, meaning that BII will now be made available to a wide array of national and international stakeholders worldwide. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership is a global collaboration organised through UNEP-WCMC. They consider proposed new indicators critically, in order to ensure that indicators used to track biodiversity trends are fit for purpose. The review process highlighted some issues that we will address in future iterations. Our collaborators at CSIRO Canberra provided us with fine-scale land use data that can feed into our statistical models. |
Impact | Collaboration only just established so outputs have not yet been made available |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Biodiversity Intactness Index (BII) has been approved by the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership |
Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Building on a paper we published in 2016, we applied to add our implementation of a key biodiversity indicator, the Biodiversity Intactness Index, to the Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, a global initiative to promote the development and delivery of biodiversity indicators by responding to the indicator requests of the CBD and other biodiversity-related Conventions, for IPBES, for reporting on the Sustainable Development Goals, and for use by national and regional governments. This application,made in May 2017, was approved in February 2018, meaning that BII will now be made available to a wide array of national and international stakeholders worldwide. |
Collaborator Contribution | The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership is a global collaboration organised through UNEP-WCMC. They consider proposed new indicators critically, in order to ensure that indicators used to track biodiversity trends are fit for purpose. The review process highlighted some issues that we will address in future iterations. Our collaborators at CSIRO Canberra provided us with fine-scale land use data that can feed into our statistical models. |
Impact | Collaboration only just established so outputs have not yet been made available |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration on biodiversity indicators with CSIRO Australia |
Organisation | Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation |
Country | Australia |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | We are providing models of how local biodiversity responds to land use and related pressures globally. This has formed one of the inputs into the BILBI model of terrestrial biodiversity under habitat loss, degradation and climate change. A manuscript is in preparation. |
Collaborator Contribution | CSIRO are providing global downscaled land-use data at 1km resolution |
Impact | Two indicators - the Local Biotic Intactness Index and the Biodiversity Habitat Index - come from this collaboration, and both are currently under consideration by the Convention on Biological Diversity having been supported by the GEO BON. |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | Collaboration with Bioversity International to contribute to the Agrobiodiversity Indicator. |
Organisation | Bioversity International |
Country | Italy |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | We hosted Costanza Geppert in our lab for five days and supervised her work producing biodiversity models. I trained Costanza in statistical modelling and the use of R statistical software for data manipulation and analysis. Using these models, I have produced spatial projections which will be used to assess pollinator diversity in agro-biodiversity areas in the Neotropics as well as a pilot study area for the Agrobiodiversity Index. |
Collaborator Contribution | Bioversity International recruited Costanza Gepptert to help on the pilot stage of the Agrobiodiversity Index. Costanza received the necessary training to then produce models of pollinator diversity in the Neotropics. |
Impact | Adriana De Palma was funded to attend the CGIAR Big Data in Agriculture convention in Colombia. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Collaboration with Rémi Prudhomme at the University of Paris on balancing priorities in the agricultural sector |
Organisation | French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development |
Country | France |
Sector | Private |
PI Contribution | We have hosted Rémi for 4 weeks in our lab to work together on linking PREDICTS with the Nexus-Land Use model. Andy Purvis and I have supervised Rémi, discussed the work, contributed to the paper, and I have run biodiversity models specifically for this project. |
Collaborator Contribution | Rémi has carried out the work of integrating PREDICTS and the Nexus-Land Use model, has implemented multiple policies into the model, and has assessed how these policies influence trade-offs between food production, climate mitigation and biodiversity (using the biodiversity models we provided). |
Impact | A scientific article is in preparation. |
Start Year | 2017 |
Description | Endorsement by GEO-BON |
Organisation | Group on Earth Observations (GEO) |
Department | Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO-BON) |
Country | Switzerland |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | PREDICTS has been officially endorsed by the GEO-BON (Group on Earth Observations - Biodiversity Observing Network); we will make our data freely available to them at the culmination of the project. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Land use-Biodiversity-Ecosystem Services working group |
Organisation | German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
PI Contribution | PDRA and PhD student involved in working group |
Collaborator Contribution | Members of all the partnership organisation are also involved in the working group |
Impact | None yet, but there is a manuscript about to be submitted. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Land use-Biodiversity-Ecosystem Services working group |
Organisation | Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres |
Country | Germany |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | PDRA and PhD student involved in working group |
Collaborator Contribution | Members of all the partnership organisation are also involved in the working group |
Impact | None yet, but there is a manuscript about to be submitted. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Land use-Biodiversity-Ecosystem Services working group |
Organisation | National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC) |
Country | United States |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | PDRA and PhD student involved in working group |
Collaborator Contribution | Members of all the partnership organisation are also involved in the working group |
Impact | None yet, but there is a manuscript about to be submitted. |
Start Year | 2013 |
Description | Natural Capital symposium |
Organisation | Stanford University |
Country | United States |
Sector | Academic/University |
PI Contribution | Tim Newbold (named PDRA on grant) has been invited to attend the Natural Capital 2016 Symposium, and to stay on for a few days afterwards to explore collaboration opportunities |
Collaborator Contribution | None |
Impact | None yet |
Start Year | 2015 |
Description | "The bigger they are, the harder they fall?" Organism size & species sensitivity to land-use impacts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at European Ecological Federation Congress 2015: Symposium "The (macro)ecology of species decline on 21 September 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Biodiversity Hackathon - Introduction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Biodiversity Hack on 20 June 2015 at Natural History Museum. Gave overview of goals of hack and the 'rules of engagement' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Briefing Rupert Lewis (Government Office for Science) on PREDICTS Pollinator work |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Briefing on results from analyses on how pollinators respond to land use to highlight work of the museum and help inform about the status of current knowledge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | Briefing Sonia Phippard (Director General of DEFRA) on PREDICTS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Briefed Director General of Defra on the results from the PREDICTS project to raise awareness about how our research could inform national and international environmental policy. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
Description | British Ecological Society Macroecology conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | Some discussion after talk No immediate impacts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Cambridge Climate and Sustainability Forum |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
Results and Impact | The students engaged in a lively discussion of the trade-offs between climate-change mitigation, land-use change and biodiversity No obvious impacts |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.cambridgeclimateforum.org/ccf-2014.html |
Description | Culture Is Digital event, slideshow and engagement |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Event on Culture is Digital, hosted by the NHM for the Minister for Digital. Engaged with attendees on PREDICTS and how we save dark data to save biodiversity. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Defining Biodiversity workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk led to an interesting discussion on what aspects of biodiversity humanity should value, and how we measure and predict this The discussion may lead to the publication of a scientific paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://www.bris.ac.uk/cabot/events/2014/484.html |
Description | Do Protected Areas work? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Research presentation to UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge, U.K. on 17 October 2014. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Friends of Madingley workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participated at a one-day workshop on the Madingley General Ecosystem Model on 18 June 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | The main finding of the report was that we are not on track to meet most of the current set of internationally agreed targets for biodiversity, but that more of these targets will be met under certain scenarios that mitigate human impacts. The release of the Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 report generated substantial media interest in many countries. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013,2014 |
URL | http://www.cbd.int/gbo4/ |
Description | Global biodiversity models worskhop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Participated at a worskhop discussion of Madingley, GLOBIO and PREDICTS models of biodiversity on 28 September 2015 at UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Life Sciences Seminar on 1 April 2015 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Global land-use impacts on local terrestrial biodiversity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at London Land Use Forum on 10 February 2015 at Zoological Society of London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Global, national and fine-scale impacts of land-use change on local terrestrial biodiversity |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Policy Forum for Wales Keynote Seminar - Managing Wales' Natural Resources and Protecting Biodiversity - on 7 July 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Hintze Hall Redevelopment discussion |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Participated at Hintze Hall Redevelopment discussion - Giant Sequoia interpretation with Dan Baker - on 6 October 2015 at Natural History Museum. Consequence will be that the new display will have a stronger environmental science component, spelling out some of the human effects on global biodiversity and ecosystems. This exhibit will be seen by a large proportion of our 5.5 million public visitors each year. There is no impact yet, because the new exhibit has not yet been unveiled. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | IARU Sustainability Science Congress |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk was received with interest, and I was approached by the director of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility to ask about data. No obvious immediate impact |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
URL | http://sustainability.ku.dk/iarucongress2014/ |
Description | INTECOL conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Other academic audiences (collaborators, peers etc.) |
Results and Impact | The talk was well received. Following the talk, the New Scientist ran an article and editorial on the project. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Keynote speaker, iDigBio conference on digitizing biodiversity data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Raised awareness of the PREDICTS project among museum/collections staff, who are generally digitising biodiversity data to ensure open access to data, but without much thought to the potential impact that these data can have. PREDICTS was an example of how digitisation can lead to outputs that are relevant to the public, land managers and policy makers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.5977042.v1 |
Description | Main scientific adviser on documentary "Extinction: The Facts", presented by Sir David Attenborough on BBC1 in September 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | I was the main scientific adviser of this documentary, guiding its thematic development, the choice of examples and the choice of speakers. Initially completed before Covid-19, I highlighted the potential to link the pandemic into the programme, given the role of land-use change and agriculture in driving zoonotic disease emergence. The programme had an overnight audience of around 4.5 million and was widely praised in the media and on social media, the latter contributing to viewer figures rising by 600,000 during the course of the initial transmission. Examples from the programme were subsequently raised in the UK parliament. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m000mn4n/extinction-the-facts |
Description | Modelling and projecting global land-use impacts on local terrestrial biodiversity: the PREDICTS project |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Departmental Seminar on 9 October 2015 at King's College London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | New Scientist coverage |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | New Scientist published an editorial and leading article on the PREDICTS project No obvious impact beyond increased awareness of the project |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
URL | http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21929333.000-stop-global-warming-and-save-biodiversity-yes-we-... |
Description | Newshour |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Broadcast interview regarding PREDICTS project paper in Nature for BBC World Service on 2 April 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p02msmm7 |
Description | Openness and availability of data |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Participated at Openness and availability of data workshop on 23 March 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | PREDICTS Project Symposium |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organiser of PREDICTS Project Symposium, a one-day symposium celebrating the achievements of the PREDICTS project, on 14 September 2015 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | PREDICTS: Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Life Sciences seminar on 9 October 2013 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology Event on the National Pollinator Strategy |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | I organised a Parliamentary Event to inform MPs and Peers about the evidence base underpinning the National Pollinator Strategy. An expert panel presented evidence, followed by a discussion. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Phenotypes in macroevolution and conservation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Phenotype Initiative Town Hall meeting on 13 April 2015 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Phylogenetic signal in bee species' sensitivity to land-use change, EU Macro, Copenhagen, Denmark. June 2015 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presented work to colleagues on a new index of species sensitivity to land use change, showing that sensitivities are non-random with respect to phylogeny. This opens opportunities to estimate sensitivities of species that have not yet been sampled, allowing us to predict which species are likely to be at risk when data are lacking. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Predicting bee community response to land-use changes: effects of geographic and taxonomic biases. British Ecological Society and Société Française d'Ecologie joint meeting, Lille, France. December 2014 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | I presented a talk to scientific colleagues showing that land-use impacts vary depending on the region and taxa that are studied. The work highlights the need for geographically and taxonomically representative databases as extrapolating from models underpinned by biased datasets can be misleading. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Predicting species' declines (and, perhaps, ecosystem effects) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at HarmBio WG4 meeting on 22 April 2015 at BIK-F, Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Presented project findings to a Government minister, Baroness Morgan, on 12th Feb 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Baroness Morgan, then Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, visited NHM in February 2020. Adriana De Palma and Andy Purvis presented some of the main findings from the project to her in a 10-minute 'show-and-tell' |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Press release and radio interview for recently published paper |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Press release and radio interview for my recently published paper on how land-use activities affect bees. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems Towards a global model of how local biodiversity responds to human impacts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Departmental Seminar on 5 December 2013 at Department of Biosciences, Swansea University, Swansea, U.K. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2013 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: A global database and model |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Future Directions for the Living Planet Index: workshop on 9 February 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: Has terrestrial biodiversity crossed a Planetary Boundary? |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Biotic Response to Environmental Change: Insights from Natural History Collections on 27 November 2015. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: Mobilising biodiversity data to tackle global Grand Challenges |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Science Group Planning Conference on 12 March 2015 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: Towards a global model of how local biodiversity responds to human impacts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Departmental Seminar on 30 October 2014 at School of Biological & Chemical Sciences, Queen Mary University London, London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: an overview of PREDICTS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Global biodiversity models workshop on 28 September 2015 at UNEP-WCMC, Cambridge. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems: an overview of PREDICTS |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at PREDICTS Project Symposium on 14 September 2015 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | Public outreach activity at Science Uncovered event at the Natural History Museum, London. |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | Yes |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | A team of five PREDICTS researchers explained the project and its implications to members of the public, leading to many interesting discussions. The overall event attracted over 8000 people; our team engaged with around 50 over the 1.5 hours we were presenting. Fifteen members of the public followed up by visiting the project website or emailing the team; several looked at our most recent research paper. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Science Uncovered -Public Engagement at the Natural History Museum on biodiversity loss |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an open day or visit at my research institution |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Science Uncovered allows the public to enter the Natural History Museum and ask questions of numerous researchers about their work. We hosted the PREDICTS stall, where we spoke to a number of people about how land-use activities can affect bee populations and coral reefs. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The PREDICTS model |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at Global Models of Biodiversity workshop on 20 January 2015 at Natural History Museum. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
Description | The global response of terrestrial protected area biodiversity to human impacts |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at World Parks Congress 2015 on 15 November 2014 at Olympic Stadium, Sydney, Australia. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
Description | Using functional traits to model species' sensitivity to land-use change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Research presentation at European Ecological Federation Congress 2015; Symposium "Plant traits - a tool towards a more predictive ecology?" on 21 September 2015. Led to new collaboration with the TRY database, which will improve understanding of how ecosystem services are affected by land use change. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |