There is a growing need for common metrics to quantify the biodiversity commitment of land owners and public authorities. Protected areas can be counted, but these are often compromised by lax legislation, absence of natural processes or low conservation value. In a recent project we mapped effectiveness of legislation, naturalness of processes and intactness of biotas on a national scale and used this to develop a metric for biodiversity commitment.
Watch the webinar presentation here.
Organised by the PEER Biodiversity Strategic Research AreaSpeaker: Rasmus Ejrnæs, Senior researcher, Department of Ecoscience, DCE - Aarhus University
