Genetic diversity targets and indicators in the CBD post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework must be improved
Morton Arboretum · Cardiff University · +39 more institutions
Abstract
The 196 parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) will soon agree to a post-2020 global framework for conserving the three elements of biodiversity (genetic, species, and ecosystem diversity) while ensuring sustainable development and benefit sharing. As the most significant global conservation policy mechanism, the new CBD framework has far-reaching consequences- it will guide conservation actions and reporting for each member country until 2050. In previous CBD strategies, as well as other major conservation policy mechanisms, targets and indicators for genetic diversity (variation at the DNA level within species, which facilitates species adaptation and ecosystem function) were undeveloped and…
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Authors
31- SHSean HobanCorresponding
Morton Arboretum
- MWMichael W. Bruford
Cardiff University
- JDJosephine D’Urban Jackson
Cardiff University
- MLMargarida Lopes-Fernandes
Instituto da Conservação da Natureza e das Florestas
- MHMyriam Heuertz
CEA CESTA, Université de Bordeaux, Institut National de Recherche pour l'Agriculture, l'Alimentation et l'Environnement, UMR BIOdiversity, GEnes & Communities
Topics & keywords
- Convention on Biological Diversity
- Biodiversity
- Genetic diversity
- Conservation genetics
- Agricultural biodiversity
- Environmental resource management
- Population
- Diversity (politics)
- Life in Land