Biodiversity monitoring for a just planetary future

Science. 2024 Jan 5;383(6678):34-36. doi: 10.1126/science.adh8874. Epub 2024 Jan 4.

¹ National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, USA.
² Department of Environment Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA.
³ School for Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
⁴ Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA.
⁵ Department of Society and Conservation, University of Montana, Missoula, MT, USA.
⁶ Department of Global Development, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA.
⁷ Department of Computer Science, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK.
⁸ Département de sciences biologiques, Universite de Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
⁹ Department of Sociology, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA.
¹⁰ School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA.

Abstract

Data that influence policy and major investment decisions risk entrenching social and political inequities.