Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20

Anne Larigauderie; Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard; Georgina M Mace; Mark Lonsdale; Harold A Mooney; Lijbert Brussaard; David Cooper; Wolfgang Cramer; Peter Daszak; Sandra Díaz; Anantha Duraiappah; Thomas Elmqvist; Daniel P Faith; Louise E Jackson; Cornelia Krug; Paul W Leadley; Philippe Le Prestre; Hiroyuki Matsuda; Margaret Palmer; Charles Perrings; Mirjam Pulleman; Belinda Reyers; Eugene A Rosa; Robert J Scholes; Eva Spehn; Bl Turner 2nd; Tetsukazu Yahara

doi:10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.007

Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20

Curr Opin Environ Sustain. 2012 Feb;4(1):101-105. doi: 10.1016/j.cosust.2012.01.007.

Authors

Anne Larigauderie¹, Anne-Hélène Prieur-Richard¹, Georgina M Mace², Mark Lonsdale³, Harold A Mooney⁴, Lijbert Brussaard⁵, David Cooper⁶, Wolfgang Cramer⁷, Peter Daszak⁸, Sandra Díaz⁹, Anantha Duraiappah¹⁰, Thomas Elmqvist¹¹, Daniel P Faith¹², Louise E Jackson¹³, Cornelia Krug¹, Paul W Leadley¹⁴, Philippe Le Prestre¹⁵, Hiroyuki Matsuda¹⁶, Margaret Palmer¹⁷, Charles Perrings¹⁸, Mirjam Pulleman⁵, Belinda Reyers¹⁹, Eugene A Rosa²⁰, Robert J Scholes²¹, Eva Spehn²², Bl Turner 2nd²³, Tetsukazu Yahara²⁴

Affiliations

¹ DIVERSITAS, c/o Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), 57, Rue Cuvier - CP 41, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
² Center for Population Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK.
³ CSIRO Ecosystem Sciences, PO BOX 1700, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia.
⁴ Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, 371 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305-5020, USA.
⁵ Wageningen University, Soil Quality Department, PO Box 47, 6700 AA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
⁶ Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, 413 Saint-Jacques Street, Suite 800, H2Y 1N9 Montreal, Canada.
⁷ Institut Méditerranéen de Biodiversité et d'Ecologie marine et continentale (IMBE), Bâtiment Villemin, Europole de l'Arbois - BP 80, F-13545 Aix-en-Provence Cedex 04, France.
⁸ EcoHealth Alliance, Wildlife Trust, 460 West 34th Street - 17th Floor, NY 10001, New York, USA.
⁹ IMBIV CONICET and FCEFyN, Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Casilla de Correo 495, Vélez Sársfield 299, 5000 Cordoba, Argentina.
¹⁰ IHDP, UNU-IHDP, UN Campus, Hermann-Ehlers-Str. 10, 53113 Bonn, Germany.
¹¹ Department of Systems Ecology and Stockholm Resilience Center, University of Stockholm, 10691 Stockholm, Sweden.
¹² The Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia.
¹³ University of California - Davis, Dept. of Land, Air and Water, USA.
¹⁴ Laboratoire Ecologie - Systématique - Evolution, Ecologie des Populations et Communautés, Université Paris-Sud XI, Bat 362, F-91405 Orsay, France.
¹⁵ Laval University, Département de Science Politique, Pavillon Charles-de-Koninck, Québec G1K 7P4, Canada.
¹⁶ Yokohama National University, Faculty of Environment & Information Sciences, 79-7 Tokiwadai, Hodogayaku, Yokohama, Kanagawa 240-8501, Japan.
¹⁷ National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center, University of Maryland, 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401, USA.
¹⁸ International Institute for Sustainability, Arizona State University, School of Life Science, AZ 85287-4501, Tempe, USA.
¹⁹ CSIR, Natural Resources and Environment, PO Box 320, 5599 Stellenbosch, South Africa.
²⁰ Washington State University, Department of Sociology, WA 99164-4020, Pullman, USA.
²¹ CSIR, Natural Resources and Environment, PO Box 395, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa.
²² GMBA, Institute of Botany, University of Basel, Schönbeinstr. 6, 4056 Basel, Switzerland.
²³ School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, PO Box 87014, AZ 85287, Tempe, USA.
²⁴ Department of Biology, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University, Hakozaki 6-10-1, 812-8581 Fukuoka, Japan.

Abstract

DIVERSITAS, the international programme on biodiversity science, is releasing a strategic vision presenting scientific challenges for the next decade of research on biodiversity and ecosystem services: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science for a Sustainable Planet". This new vision is a response of the biodiversity and ecosystem services scientific community to the accelerating loss of the components of biodiversity, as well as to changes in the biodiversity science-policy landscape (establishment of a Biodiversity Observing Network - GEO BON, of an Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - IPBES, of the new Future Earth initiative; and release of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020). This article presents the vision and its core scientific challenges.

Grants and funding

R01 GM100471/GM/NIGMS NIH HHS/United States