The Circumpolar Biodiversity Monitoring Program

2020

Arctic biodiversity is under growing pressure from both climate change and resource development, requiring both managers and users to have access to more complete information to help them make timely and informed conservation and adaptation decisions. Yet existing monitoring programs remain largely uncoordinated, limiting our ability to efectively monitor, understand and respond to biodiversity trends at the circumpolar scale. The maintenance of healthy Arctic ecosystems is a global imperative as the Arctic plays a critical role in the Earth's physical, chemical and biological balance. Maintaining the health of Arctic ecosystems is also of fundamental economic, cultural and spiritual importance to Arctic residents, many of whom maintain close ties to the land and sea. The Arctic's size and complexity represents a signiicant challenge towards detecting and attributing changes in biodiversity. This demands an integrated, pan-Arctic, ecosystem-based approach that can efectively...

2011

The Arctic Marine Biodiversity Monitoring Plan (CBMP-Marine Plan) could not have been developed without the participation and cooperation from a large number of scientists and Indigenous and government experts from the Arctic marine countries and beyond.

2020

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