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==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
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| + | Our collections and research contribute directly to regional, national, and international assessments of rare and endangered species, the compilation of checklists, floras and faunas, and taxonomic, phylogenetic, evolutionary, and ecological research. Our collections form a global biodiversity baseline that is critical to tracking and predicting the effects of climate change on people and on the natural world. In June 2019, the Biodiversity Crisis Response Committee of SPNHC formed in response to an urgent call to action to prevent the loss of close to one million species in what is being called an international ‘biodiversity crisis’ that will change the face of the planet. | ||
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| + | https://ipbes.net/global-assessment-report-biodiversity-ecosystem-services | ||
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| + | On October 7, 2020, the committee held the first in a series of panel discussions with conservation experts to consider how the biological collections community can most effectively contribute to protecting biodiversity. A recording of that meeting can be found here: https://youtu.be/y2CIYI13SPI | ||
==Contributors== | ==Contributors== | ||
Revision as of 18:51, 6 January 2021
Contents
Statement of Purpose
This page is produced by the Biodiversity Crisis Response Committee as a page of resources of use to collections to showcase how they can be used to address conservation and biodiversity crisis themes as a tool to increase advocacy for collections in general.
Introduction
Our collections and research contribute directly to regional, national, and international assessments of rare and endangered species, the compilation of checklists, floras and faunas, and taxonomic, phylogenetic, evolutionary, and ecological research. Our collections form a global biodiversity baseline that is critical to tracking and predicting the effects of climate change on people and on the natural world. In June 2019, the Biodiversity Crisis Response Committee of SPNHC formed in response to an urgent call to action to prevent the loss of close to one million species in what is being called an international ‘biodiversity crisis’ that will change the face of the planet.
https://ipbes.net/global-assessment-report-biodiversity-ecosystem-services
On October 7, 2020, the committee held the first in a series of panel discussions with conservation experts to consider how the biological collections community can most effectively contribute to protecting biodiversity. A recording of that meeting can be found here: https://youtu.be/y2CIYI13SPI
Contributors
Source Material
Links
On October 7, 2020, the committee held the first in a series of panel discussions with conservation experts to consider how the biological collections community can most effectively contribute to protecting biodiversity. A recording of that meeting can be found here: https://youtu.be/y2CIYI13SPI
Global Biodiversity Outlook report
Center for Biological Diversity
References
Biological collections for understanding biodiversity in the Anthropocene - Meineke et al. - 2018
The Value of Museum Collections for Research and Society - Suarez et al. - 2004
The unrealized potential of herbaria for global change biology - Meineke - 2018
Natural History Museums in a Postbiodiversity Era - Winker - 2004
