Programme published by the GEO BON Secretariat | Version 24 June 2016

8:00
 Registration
8:00
8:30

Welcome Note / Plenary Talks
Room 1A & 1B
8:30

8:30
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9:00

 Henrique M. Pereira & Mike Gill
Towards an operational global biodiversity observation network
8:30
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9:00

9:00
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9:30

 David Cooper
Assessing progress towards the Aichi Biodiversity Targets, the SDGs and the 2050 Vision for Biodiversity
9:00
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9:30
9:45
 Sessions
9:45

Essential Biodiversity Variables

Development of Biodiversity Observation Networks

Remote sensing of EBVs

Room 1A

Species Distribution

Room 1B

National BONs & tools for BON development

Room 1C & 1D

Thematic & Regional BONs

Room 2A & 2B

RS4EBVs
(Matt Hansen)

Species Distribution EBVs
(Walter Jetz)

Process, Tools and Considerations
(Mike Gill)

GWOS
(Adrian Strauch)
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Nathalie Pettorelli:
Framing the concept of satellite remote sensing essential biodiversity variables: challenges & future directions
Walter Jetz:
An Essential Biodiversity Variable for addressing species distributions in space & time
Mike Gill:
A Process & Approach to Developing a User-Driven Biodiversity Observation Network
Peter Haase:
Freshwater longterm ecological research (LTER): Challenges, obstacles & opportunities
Michael Förster:
Methods for bridging spatial & temporal limitations of satellite data to monitor forest disturbances
Yoni Gavish:
Accounting for both spatial & niche aspects in species distribution models
Maria Londono:
Bon in a Box Latin America, challenges & opportunities
Mathias Kümmerlen:
Applications of long-term monitoring freshwater biodiversity data in species distribution modeling
Teja Kattenborn:
Linking plant strategies types(CSR) & plant traits derived by radiative transfer modelling (PROSAIL)
Jorge Velasquez-Tibata:
BioModelos: a web application to integrate expert knowledge & statistical models to estimate the geographic distribution of species in Colombia
Petteri Vihervaara:
How can EBVs help national biodiversity & ecosystem service monitoring?
Ian Thornhill:
FreshWater Watch, a global study of aquatic ecosystem health using citizen science
Julien Radoux:
Globally consistent land cover & land cover change map
Ella Vogel:
Building a new biodiversity infrastructure for the UK; enriching our history of biological recording
Eren Turak:
Data needs & priorities for measuring essential biodiversity variables in freshwaters
10:45
 Coffee break + Poster session (30 min)
10:45
11:15
 Sessions
11:15

RS4EBVs
(Matt Hansen)

Species Distribution EBVs
(Walter Jetz)

Process, Tools and Considerations
(Mike Gill)

GWOS
(Adrian Strauch)
Julien Radoux:
Continental scale monitoring of plant phenology & snow cover extent by remote sensing used as an indicator of species traits
Melodie McGeoch:
Occurrence as central & essential for monitoring range expansion
Michael Diepenbroek:
German Federation for Biological Data (GFBio)
Jörg Freyhof:
Freshwater Key Biodiversity Areas in the Eastern Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot
Andreas Huth:
Tandem-L: Global Observation of Ecological Processes on the Earth's Surface with Two L-Band SAR Satellites
Eugenie Regan:
From counts to indicators - progress in butterfly monitoring
Robert Guralnick:
Humboldt-Core - toward a standardized capture of biological inventories for biodiversity monitoring, modeling & assessment
Kathrin Weise:
The Satellitebased Wetland Observation Service (SWOS) - Wise use of wetlands supported by Earth observations
Domingo Alcaraz-Segura:
Remotely-sensed Ecosystem Functional Types: monitoring functional diversity at the ecosystem level
Manuela D'Amen:
From species distribution models to community prediction: perspectives for EBVs
Urmas Köljalg:
PlutoF - online data management platform for the Biodiversity Observation Networks
Adrian Strauch:
Towards a Global Wetland Observation System
Ghada El Serafy:
Geosphere-biosphere interactions in ecosystem dynamics
Hannu Saarenmaa:
Prototyping the Essential Biodiversity Variables for species populations - an analysis of trends in relative abundance for all European butterflies using big data from GBIF
Donald Hobern:
GBIF - a global infrastructure for species population data
Aaike De Wever:
Lessons learned from the freshwater biodiversity data mobilisation activities for the Freshwater Information Platform
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Vanessa Bremerich:
The Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas as a tool for mobilisation of freshwater biodiversity related large-scale geographical information
12:30
 Lunch break
12:30
13:30
 Sessions
13:30

RS4EBVs
(Nathalie Pettorelli)

Species Distribution EBVs
(Melodie McGeoch)

National & Regional BON Examples, Experiences & Applications
(Maria Londono)

GWOS (Adrian Strauch) / MBON (Frank Muller-Karger)
Mao-Ning Tuanmu:
Remote sensingbased measures of habitat heterogeneity as an essential biodiversity variable
Miguel Clavero:
Biodiversity records in Spanish historical sources & the options for a BON of the Past
Keping Ma:
Biodiversity monitoring in China: From CForBio to Sino BON
Aaike De Wever:
Panel discussion on freshwater & wetland biodiversity monitoring & data mobilisation
Oscar Bautista:
Terra-i: a pantropical near real time monitoring system for vegetal cover change
Julien Radoux:
Iterative design of an integrated geographic database for species distribution models: the ecotopes
Anna Cohen-Nabeiro:
The French BON ECOSCOPE : a national infrastructure as a "Datasets Center for Research on Biodiversity"
Discussion
Franziska Taubert:
The packing of trees in forests & its implications for remote sensing
Pavan Kumar:
Impact of climate on tree species diversity in tropical reserve forest using Geospatial Domain
Maria Londono:
The Colombian Biodiversity Observation Network: a pilot for establishing National BONs to Serve the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity & the Intergovernmental Panel for Biodiversity & Ecosystem Services
Frank Muller-Karger:
The Thematic Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)
Rico Fischer:
Fragmentation of Tropical Forests: A Forgotten Process in the Global Carbon Cycle?
Fabian Ewald Fassnacht:
Comparing Generalized Linear Models & random forest to model vascular plant species richness using LiDAR data in a natural forest in central Chile
Elisabeth Kühn:
Butterfly Monitoring Germany - the first ten years
Mark Costello:
Mapping marine ecosystems, biogeographic realms, & other regionalisations
Edna Rödig:
Biomass in the Amazonian rainforest: regionalization of an individual-based forest gap model
Wolfgang Wägele:
The potential of new technologies for biodiversity monitoring at species level
Kwang-Tsao Shao:
Biodiversity Monitoring & Reporting System Project in Taiwan (TaiBON) - Marine Aspect
David Obura:
Developing Essential Biodiversity & Ocean Variables, & a Biodiversity Observation Network, for Coral Reefs
Nikolai Knapp:
Joining remote sensing & dynamic forest modelling for estimations of intrinsic forest attributes from Lidar or Radar
Klaus Henle:
DaEuMon - a database on biodiversity monitoring in Europe: updates
Tom Christensen:
Coordinating for Arctic Conservation: Implementing Integrated Arctic Biodiversity Monitoring, Data Management & Reporting
Susana Carvalho:
Cross shelf benthic biodiversity patterns in the southern Red Sea: setting up background levels for future monitoring of coral reefs & soft-sediments
Ruben Van De Kerchove:
Assessing the impact of management on floristic composition, biodiversity & ecosystem condition: a multi‐sensor comparison
Robert Guralnick:
Towards a Computational Model of Place: Genomic Observatories & Island Avatars
Miguel Fernandez:
Biodiversity observatory in Bolivia
Sathaporn Monprapussorn:
Impact of climate & land use change on coastal ecosystem services & community resilience in Samutsakorn province, Thailand
Pedro J. Leitao:
Mapping community composition from space
Jorge Ahumada:
The Wildlife Picture Index: an essential biodiversity variable to monitor vertebrates through camera traps
Eren Turak:
Using the EBV concept to support biodiversity assessments within administrative boundaries
Ward Appeltans:
An Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) that supports GOOS & MBONs
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
15:45
 Coffee break and Poster session (30min)
15:45
16:15
 Sessions
16:15

RS4EBVs (A)
(Palma Blonda)

RS4EBVs (B)
(Gary Geller)

National BONs: Mainstreaming, Indicators & NBSAPs
(Patricia Koleff)

MBON
(Corinne Martin)
Fabian Ewald Fassnacht:
Tree species classification from remote sensing data - thoughts on spectral resolution & scale
Achim Röder:
Using the full depth of the Landsat archive to analyze post-war forest cover dynamics in Angola
Chiao-Ying Chou:
Development & Assessment of Taiwan's Biodiversity Indicators System
Roger Sayre:
Mapping Global Ecological Marine Units (EMUs)
Enrique Montes:
A Hierarchical & Dynamic Seascape Framework for Scaling & Comparing Ocean Biodiversity Observations
Michael Murray-Hudson:
Automated interpretation of MODIS imagery flood extent as a proxy for monitoring floodplain plant communities in the Okavango Delta
Patricia Koleff:
Up-scaling ecosystem assessments: a tool for the development of the National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan
Mark Costello:
Towards a central world database on Introductionduced marine species
Ralph Adewoye:
Modelling Afromontane Tree species diversity with satellite images & topographic data
Hiroyuki Muraoka:
"Satellite Ecology" & "Phenological Eyes Network (PEN)" to bridge climate, ecosystem & biodiversity observations
Peter Bellingham:
Implementing & integrating terrestrial biodiversity indicators throughout New Zealand
Chhaya Chaudhary:
Bimodality of latitudinal gradients in marine species richness
Benjamin Dechant:
Mechanisms behind the estimation of photosynthesis traits from leaf reflectance observations
Helga Küchly:
Feld & Vogel - Development of an interactive Application: Satellite-based Habitat Analysis for Indicator Bird Species in the agricultural Landscape - a Tool to meet the EU Biodiversity Targets in 2020
Nadine Bowles-Newark:
Connect: Mainstreaming biodiversity information into the heart of government decision making
Robert Panipilla:
Documentation of coastal benthic habitats & biodiversity through fisher communities: A case study from Kerala, India
Kristen Williams:
HCAS: A new way to assess the condition of natural habitats for terrestrial biodiversity across whole regions using remote sensing data
Sebastian Schmidtlein:
The non-stationary link between spectral variation & species density
Anna Chenery:
The Biodiversity Indicators Partnership, supporting national indicator development
Elina A. Virtanen:
Challenges & solutions in modelling of marine benthic biodiversity in support of ecosystem management
Michael Ewald:
Using remote sensing to quantify the ecosystem impact of invasive plant species
Daniel Doktor:
Remotely sensed trends in European spring phenology
Angela Lomba:
Stepping-stones towards a common framework to assess & report High Nature Value farmlands in the EU countryside
Enrique Montes:
National Marine Sanctuaries as Sentinel Sites for a Demonstration Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON)
Palma Blonda:
Pattern zonation rules & Very High Resolution satellite imagery for ecosystem extent monitoring
Leandro Macchi:
Satellite-based tree cover as a surrogate for forest bird diversity & abundance in the South American Dry Chaco
Amanda E. Bates:
Continental-scale assessment of indicators & biodiversity trends on Australia's rocky & coral reefs
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
Discussion
18:30
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19:00
 Coordination meeting with sessions chairs
18:30
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19:00