Monitoring global biodiversity from space through remotely sensing geospatial patterns has
high potential to add to our knowledge acquired by field observation. Although a framework …

Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is quickly gaining ground in ecological research,
following global trends toward automated data collection and big data. Using unattended …

Biodiversity underpins the fundamental elements for human well-being including food
security, human health and access to clean water. In 2010, the Aichi Targets were adopted …

Global sustainability targets demand transformative changes. Nature-based solutions (NbS)
are gaining traction in science and policy, but their potential for transformative change …

Measuring progress toward international biodiversity targets requires robust information on
the conservation status of species, which the International Union for Conservation of Nature …

Global biodiversity monitoring is urgently needed across the world to assess the impacts of
environmental change on biodiversity. One way to increase monitoring is through citizen …

Reliable and comparable estimates of biodiversity are the foundation for understanding
ecological systems and informing policy and decision‐making, especially in an era of …

Highlights•Monitoring biodiversity and ecosystem services has far reaching societal
relevance.•A user-driven monitoring framework is needed to address the biodiversity …

Holistic insect monitoring needs scalable techniques to overcome taxon biases, determine
species abundances, and gather functional traits for all species. This requires that we …

Measuring the completeness of survey inventories created by citizen‐science initiatives can
identify the strengths and shortfalls in our knowledge of where species occur geographically …