May 21-22, 2025
Washington, DC

Assessing biodiversity is fundamental to understanding the distribution of biodiversity, the changes that are occurring and the responses to actions. Such assessments face multiple challenges, not least the great complexity of natural systems, but also a lack of standardized approaches to measurement, a plethora of measurement technologies with their own strengths and weaknesses, and different data needs depending on the purpose for which the information is being gathered. Other sectors have faced similar challenges and the Forum will look to learn from these precedents with a view to building momentum towards standardized methods for using particular environmental monitoring technologies for particular purposes. In so doing it will help ensure comparability between different research outputs and confidence that observed changes in biodiversity are the result of changes in what is being measured rather than the measurement methodology.

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