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0000-0002-4760-9302
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US Geological Survey
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Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 28-12-2022
DOI: 10.1093/GIGASCIENCE/GIAD068
Abstract: Omic BON is a thematic Bio ersity Observation Network under the Group on Earth Observations Bio ersity Observation Network (GEO BON), focused on coordinating the observation of biomolecules in organisms and the environment. Our founding partners include representatives from national, regional, and global observing systems standards organizations and data and s le management infrastructures. By coordinating observing strategies, methods, and data flows, Omic BON will facilitate the co-creation of a global omics meta-observatory to generate actionable knowledge. Here, we present key elements of Omic BON's founding charter and first activities.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 24-08-2023
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 22-03-2021
DOI: 10.1111/ELE.13732
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 12-04-2022
DOI: 10.1111/BRV.12852
Abstract: Bio ersity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies, and human well‐being. Understanding how bio ersity sustains ecosystems under anthropogenic stressors and global environmental change will require new ways of deriving and applying bio ersity data. A major challenge is that bio ersity data and knowledge are scattered, biased, collected with numerous methods, and stored in inconsistent ways. The Group on Earth Observations Bio ersity Observation Network (GEO BON) has developed the Essential Bio ersity Variables (EBVs) as fundamental metrics to help aggregate, harmonize, and interpret bio ersity observation data from erse sources. Mapping and analyzing EBVs can help to evaluate how aspects of bio ersity are distributed geographically and how they change over time. EBVs are also intended to serve as inputs and validation to forecast the status and trends of bio ersity, and to support policy and decision making. Here, we assess the feasibility of implementing Genetic Composition EBVs (Genetic EBVs), which are metrics of within‐species genetic variation. We review and bring together numerous areas of the field of genetics and evaluate how each contributes to global and regional genetic bio ersity monitoring with respect to theory, s ling logistics, metadata, archiving, data aggregation, modeling, and technological advances. We propose four Genetic EBVs: ( i ) Genetic Diversity ( ii ) Genetic Differentiation ( iii ) Inbreeding and ( iv ) Effective Population Size ( N e ). We rank Genetic EBVs according to their relevance, sensitivity to change, generalizability, scalability, feasibility and data availability. We outline the workflow for generating genetic data underlying the Genetic EBVs, and review advances and needs in archiving genetic composition data and metadata. We discuss how Genetic EBVs can be operationalized by visualizing EBVs in space and time across species and by forecasting Genetic EBVs beyond current observations using various modeling approaches. Our review then explores challenges of aggregation, standardization, and costs of operationalizing the Genetic EBVs, as well as future directions and opportunities to maximize their uptake globally in research and policy. The collection, annotation, and availability of genetic data has made major advances in the past decade, each of which contributes to the practical and standardized framework for large‐scale genetic observation reporting. Rapid advances in DNA sequencing technology present new opportunities, but also challenges for operationalizing Genetic EBVs for bio ersity monitoring regionally and globally. With these advances, genetic composition monitoring is starting to be integrated into global conservation policy, which can help support the foundation of all bio ersity and species' long‐term persistence in the face of environmental change. We conclude with a summary of concrete steps for researchers and policy makers for advancing operationalization of Genetic EBVs. The technical and analytical foundations of Genetic EBVs are well developed, and conservation practitioners should anticipate their increasing application as efforts emerge to scale up genetic bio ersity monitoring regionally and globally.
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 16-01-2023
DOI: 10.1007/S10592-022-01492-0
Abstract: Genetic ersity among and within populations of all species is necessary for people and nature to survive and thrive in a changing world. Over the past three years, commitments for conserving genetic ersity have become more ambitious and specific under the Convention on Biological Diversity’s (CBD) draft post-2020 global bio ersity framework (GBF). This Perspective article comments on how goals and targets of the GBF have evolved, the improvements that are still needed, lessons learned from this process, and connections between goals and targets and the actions and reporting that will be needed to maintain, protect, manage and monitor genetic ersity. It is possible and necessary that the GBF strives to maintain genetic ersity within and among populations of all species, to restore genetic connectivity, and to develop national genetic conservation strategies, and to report on these using proposed, feasible indicators.
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 08-03-2022
DOI: 10.1111/CSP2.12635
Abstract: The Coalition for Conservation Genetics (CCG) brings together four eminent organizations with the shared goal of improving the integration of genetic information into conservation policy and practice. We provide a historical context of conservation genetics as a field and reflect on current barriers to conserving genetic ersity, highlighting the need for collaboration across traditional ides, international partnerships, and coordinated advocacy. We then introduce the CCG and illustrate through ex les how a coalition approach can leverage complementary expertise and improve the organizational impact at multiple levels. The CCG has proven particularly successful at implementing large synthesis‐type projects, training early‐career scientists, and advising policy makers. Achievements to date highlight the potential for the CCG to make effective contributions to practical conservation policy and management that no one “parent” organization could achieve on its own. Finally, we reflect on the lessons learned through forming the CCG, and our vision for the future.
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