Southern Hemisphere biodiversity and global change: Data gaps and strategies |
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| Authors: | Lynda E Chambers Phoebe Barnard Elvira S Poloczanska Alistair J Hobday Marie R Keatley Nicky Allsopp Les G Underhill |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia;2. Climate Change Bioadaptation and Biodiversity Futures Programs, South African National Biodiversity Institute, Cape Town, South Africa;3. DST‐NRF Centre of Excellence, Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa;4. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;5. Global Change Institute, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia;6. CSIRO Oceans and Atmosphere, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia;7. School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences, The University of Melbourne, Creswick, Victoria, Australia;8. South African Environmental Observation Network, SAEON Fynbos Node, Cape Town, South Africa;9. Animal Demography Unit, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | Long‐term datasets needed to detect the impacts of global change on southern biodiversity are still scarce and often incomplete, challenging adaptation planning and conservation management. Biological data are probably most limited in arid countries and from the oceans, where natural environmental variability (‘noise’) means that long time series are required to detect the ‘signal’ of directional change. Significant national and international investment and collaboration are needed for most southern nations to reliably track biodiversity trends and improve conservation adaptation to rapid climate change. Emerging early warning systems for biodiversity, incorporating regional environmental change drivers, citizen science and regional partnerships, can all help to compensate for existing information gaps and contribute to adaptation planning. |
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| Keywords: | adaptation citizen science climate change data recovery early warning systems |
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