Includes bibliographical references and index.

Biodiversity monitoring and conservation: bridging the gaps between global commitment and local action / Ben Collen, Nathalie Pettorelli, Jonathan E M Baillie, Sarah M Durant -- Species-based indicators of biodiversity change. Tracking change in national-level conservation status: national red lists / Ben Collen, Janine Griffiths, Yolan Friedmann, Jon Paul Rodriguez, Franklin Rojas-Suàrez, Jonathan E M Baillie -- The wildlife picture index: a biodiversity indicator for top trophic levels / Timothy G O'Brien, Margaret F Kinnaird -- Tracking change in abundance: the living planet index / Ben Collen, Louise McRae, Jonathan Loh, Stefanie Deinet, Adriana De Palma, Robyn Manley, Jonathan E M Baillie -- Indicators of the pressures on biodiversity. Satellite data-based indices to monitor land use and habitat changes / Nathalie Pettorelli -- Indicators of climate change impacts on biodiversity / Wendy B Foden, Georgina M Mace, Stuart H M Butchart -- Monitoring trends in biological invasion, its impact and policy responses / Piero Genovesi, Stuart H M Butchart, Melodie A McGeoch, David B Roy -- Exploitation indices: developing global and national metrics of wildlife use and trade / Rosamunde E A Almond, Stuart H M Butchart, Thomasina E E Oldfield, Louise McRae, Steven de Bie -- Personalized measures of consumption and development in the context of biodiversity conservation: connecting the ecological footprint calculation with the human footprint map / Eric W Sanderson -- The next generation of biodiversity indicators. Indicator bats program: a system for the global acoustic monitoring of bats / Kate E Jones, Jon A Russ, Andriy-Taras Bashta, Zoltálan Bilhari, Colin Catto, István Csîosz, Alexander Gorbachev, Páleter Gyîorfi, Alice Hughes, Igor Ivashkiv, Natalia Koryagina, Anikálo Kurali, Steve Langton, Alanna Collen, Georgiana Margiean, Ivan Pandourski, Stuart Parsons, Igor Prokofev, Abigel Szodoray-Paradi, Farkas Szodoray-Paradi, Elena Tilova, Charlotte L Walters, Aidan Weatherill, Oleg Zavarzin -- Occupancy methods for conservation management / Darryl I MacKenzie, James T Reardon -- Monitoring and evaluating the socioeconomic impacts of conservation projects on local communities / Katherine Homewood -- Science to policy linkages for the post-2010 biodiversity targets / Georgina M Mace, Charles Perrings, Philippe Le Prestre, Wolfgang Cramer, Sandra Díaz, Anne Larigauderie, Robert J Scholes, Harold A Mooney -- Biodiversity monitoring in practice. Building sustainable national monitoring networks / Sarah M Durant -- Monitoring in the real world / Julia P G Jones -- Monitoring in UNDP-GEF biodiversity projects: balancing conservation priorities, financial realities, and scientific rigour / Sultana Bashir -- Scaling up or down? Linking global and national biodiversity indicators and reporting / Philip Bubb -- Conserving biodiversity in a target-driven world / Simon N Stuart, Ben Collen -- Index.

As the impacts of anthropogenic activities increase in both magnitude and extent, biodiversity is coming under increasing pressure. Scientists and policy makers are frequently hampered by a lack of information on biological systems, particularly information relating to long-term trends. Such information is crucial to developing an understanding as to how biodiversity may respond to global environmental change. Knowledge gaps make it very difficult to develop effective policies and legislation to reduce and reverse biodiversity loss. This book explores the gap between global commitmen.

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