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freshwaterBIODIVERSITY annual report

freshwaterBIODIVERSITY annual report. SC-DIVERSITAS, 22-24 March 2011 M Palmer & A-H Prieur-Richard. Achievements in 2010. eFLOWS: the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and the human well-being that depend on these ecosystems

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  1. freshwaterBIODIVERSITY annual report SC-DIVERSITAS, 22-24 March 2011 M Palmer & A-H Prieur-Richard

  2. Achievements in 2010 • eFLOWS: the quantity, timing, and quality of water flows required to sustain freshwater and the human well-being that depend on these ecosystems • Advancing this field of research • Research agenda • Global threats to human water security & freshwater biodiversity • Press release & media campaign • Presentation at CBD COP10, Nagoya

  3. C Vorosmarty, P McIntyre et al. 2010 Nature

  4. On-going activities • AquaBase: determine the biophysical basis of freshwater ecosystems • GEO BON freshwater biodiversity working group • BioFresh • Global Freshwater Consortium AquaBase Collaborators: Margaret Palmer (USA), Stuart Bunn (Australia), Brad Cardinale (USA), Michael McClain (UNESCO-IHE - Netherlands), Jeanne Nel (SCIR - South Africa), Klement Tockner (BioFresh - EU) Focal Watersheds: Chesapeake Bay US), Mara (Kenya & Tanzania), Orange or Vaal (South Africa), undecided (Colombia SA), Murray-Darling (Australia)

  5. AquaBase conceptual framework Decisions, Natural resource Management Market-based Policies and Regulations Biophysical processes and Ecosystem features Ecological Production Function s Ecological Endpoints/Outcomes (measurable biophysically, meaningful socially) Economic Valuation Ecoservice Production Function s Information Incentives Ecosystem Services (social well-being) PEOPLE USE OR VALUE THIS

  6. On-going activities • AquaBase • GEO BON freshwater biodiversity working group: • Symposium “Monitoring freshwater ecosystem change”, World Water Week • BioFresh • Biodiversity database for EU countries • Research on dominant stressors • Global Freshwater Consortium

  7. On-going activities • AquaBase • GEO BON freshwater biodiversity working group: • Symposium “Monitoring freshwater ecosystem change”, World Water Week • BioFresh • Biodiversity database for EU countries • Research on dominant stressors • Global Freshwater Consortium • 5 European countries & the Phillipines + 19 research institutes • Fully funded and well under way

  8. On-going activities BioFresh • Build an information platform as a gateway for scientific • research on freshwater biodiversity • Online library • Data portal – data bases, models, tools • Various ‘work packages’ e.g., contemporary and historical • biogeographic mapping, outreach & communications, • climate change

  9. On-going activities • AquaBase • GEO BON freshwater biodiversity working group • BioFresh • Global Freshwater Consortium: • Foster international coordination & collaborations to advance conservation and research on freshwater biodiversity & ecosystem services • Met in Barcelona in February 2011 Representatives: DIVERSITAS, BioFresh (EU), RESTORE (Sweden), Conservation International, GWSP, IUCN - Freshwater Biodiversity Unit, Wetlands International, FAO , UNESCO-Institute for Water Education, World Wildlife Fund

  10. Global Freshwater Consortium • Open group including major research and conservation organizations and research projects • Formalization of the consortium - still under discussion if it will be informal/ad hoc or more formalized • Potential activities: • Census of Freshwater Life • Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas – first follow-up meeting this year tentatively organized by Wetlands International • Joint recommendations to FW managers and policy makers • Planet under Pressure – 2 session proposals submitted

  11. Conclusions • Exciting new paper coming out soon by DIVERSITAS member Brad Cardinale (U Michigan) • “Biodiversity improves water quality through niche partitioning” • Looking forward to the discussions on the DIVERSITAS strategic plan: • How freshwaterBIODIVERSITY will fit in the new structure? • Future activities of the group • SC-freshwaterBIODIVERSITY nominations; need for new chair IF existing structure continues

  12. Thank you !

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