Policy ForumEcology
Toward a Global Biodiversity Observing System
- R. J. Scholes*,1,
- G. M. Mace2,
- W. Turner3,
- G. N. Geller4,
- N. Jürgens5,
- A. Larigauderie6,
- D. Muchoney7,
- B. A. Walther6,
- H. A. Mooney8
- 1Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), Natural Resources and Environment, Post Office Box 395, Pretoria 0001, South Africa.
- 2Centre for Population Biology, National Environment Research Council, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK.
- 3Earth Science Division, U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters, 300 E Street S.W., Washington, DC 20546-0001, USA.
- 4NASA Ecological Forecasting Program, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS171-264, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109-8099, USA.
- 5University of Hamburg, BioCentre Klein Flottbek and Botanical Garden, Ohnhorststrasse 18, 22609 Hamburg, Germany.
- 6DIVERSITAS, Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Maison Buffon, 57, rue Cuvier-Case Postale 41, 75231 Paris, Cedex 05, France.
- 7Group on Earth Observations (GEO), 7 bis, avenue de la Paix, Case Postale 2300, CH-1211 Geneva 2, Switzerland.
- 8Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
- ↵*Author for correspondence. E-mail: bscholes{at}csir.co.za
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Science 22 Aug 2008:
Vol. 321, Issue 5892, pp. 1044-1045
DOI: 10.1126/science.1162055