Hallmann, C. A. et al. More than 75 percent decline over 27 years in total flying insect biomass in protected areas. PLoS ONE 12, e0185809 (2017).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Rigal, S. et al. Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 120, e2216573120 (2023).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Mancini, F. et al. Invertebrate biodiversity continues to decline in cropland. Proc. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 290, 20230897 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Díaz, S. et al. Pervasive human-driven decline of life on earth points to the need for transformative change. Science 366, eaax3100 (2019).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Proença, V. et al. Global biodiversity monitoring: from data sources to essential biodiversity variables. Biol. Conserv. 213, 256–263 (2017).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Santana, J. et al. Large biodiversity monitoring gaps remain across Europe. Conserv. Lett. 18, e13134 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Santana, J. et al. D3.2 Report on gaps and important new areas for monitoring in Europe. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e103657 (2023).

Morán-Ordóñez, A. et al. D3.3 Identification of current monitoring workflows and bottlenecks. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e103765 (2023).

Moersberger, H. et al. Biodiversity monitoring in Europe: user and policy needs. Conserv. Lett. 17, e13038 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Wetzel, F. T. et al. Unlocking biodiversity data: prioritization and filling the gaps in biodiversity observation data in Europe. Biol. Conserv. 221, 78–85 (2018).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Morán-Ordóñez, A., Martí Pino, D. & Brotons, L. D. 3.1 Inventory of current European network for monitoring. Web-based database. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e109168 (2023).

Pereira, H. M. et al. Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: integrating data streams to support policy. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e81207 (2022).

Langer, C. et al. The EuropaBON stakeholder dashboard: a dynamic web application to map Europe’s biodiversity community. PLoS ONE 20, e0329390 (2025).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Moersberger, H. et al. Europa Biodiversity Observation Network: user and policy needs assessment. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e84517 (2022).

Pereira, H. M. et al. Essential biodiversity variables. Science 339, 277–278 (2013).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Junker, J. et al. D4.1. Revised list and specifications of EBVs and EESVs for a European wide biodiversity observation network. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e102530 (2023).

Lumbierres, M. et al. EuropaBON EBV workflow templates. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10680435 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Pereira, H. M. et al. in The GEO Handbook on Biodiversity Observation Networks (eds Walters, M. & Scholes, R. J.) 79–105 (Springer International, 2017).

Schwartz, M. K., Luikart, G. & Waples, R. S. Genetic monitoring as a promising tool for conservation and management. Trends Ecol. Evol. 22, 25–33 (2007).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Buchner, D. et al. Upscaling biodiversity monitoring: metabarcoding estimates 31,846 insect species from malaise traps across Germany. Mol. Ecol. Resour. 25, e14023 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Miya, M. Environmental DNA metabarcoding: a novel method for biodiversity monitoring of marine fish communities. Annu. Rev. Mar. Sci. 14, 161–185 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Remmel, N. et al. DNA metabarcoding and morphological identification reveal similar richness, taxonomic composition and body size patterns among flying insect communities. Insect Conserv. Divers. 17, 449–463 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Zanovello, L. et al. Validation of an eDNA-based workflow for monitoring inter- and intra-specific CytB haplotype diversity of alpine amphibians. Environ. DNA 6, e573 (2024).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Skidmore, A. K. et al. Priority list of biodiversity metrics to observe from space. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 5, 896–906 (2021).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Bruelheide, H. et al. D5.2 Past-to-present EBV modelled datasets and status indicator for selected terrestrial habitats in the habitats directive. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e128158 (2024).

Camia, A. et al. Earth Observation in Support of EU Policies for Biodiversity—A Deep-Dive Assessment of the Knowledge Centre on Earth Observation (Publications Office of the European Union, 2023).

Shamoun-Baranes, J. et al. Weather radars’ role in biodiversity monitoring. Science 372, 248 (2021).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Desmet, P. et al. Biological data derived from European weather radars. Sci. Data 12, 361 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Bauer, S., Tielens, E. K. & Haest, B. Monitoring aerial insect biodiversity: a radar perspective. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 379, 20230113 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Kissling, W. D. et al. Towards consistently measuring and monitoring habitat condition with airborne laser scanning and unmanned aerial vehicles. Ecol. Indic. 169, 112970 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Shi, Y., Wang, J. & Kissling, W. D. Multi-temporal high-resolution data products of ecosystem structure derived from country-wide airborne laser scanning surveys of the Netherlands. Earth Syst. Sci. Data 17, 3641–3677 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Chandler, M. et al. Contribution of citizen science towards international biodiversity monitoring. Biol. Conserv. 213, 280–294 (2017).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Fritz, S. et al. Citizen science and the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. Nat. Sustain. 2, 922–930 (2019).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Sheard, J. K. et al. Emerging technologies in citizen science and potential for insect monitoring. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 379, 20230106 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Jetz, W. et al. Essential Biodiversity Variables for mapping and monitoring species populations. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 3, 539–551 (2019).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Sullivan, B. L. et al. eBird: a citizen-based bird observation network in the biological sciences. Biol. Conserv. 142, 2282–2292 (2009).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

van Strien, A. J., van Zweden, J. S., Sparrius, L. B. & Odé, B. Improving citizen science data for long-term monitoring of plant species in the Netherlands. Biodivers. Conserv. 31, 2781–2796 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Collins, R., France, A., Walker, M. & Browning, S. The potential for freshwater citizen science to engage and empower: a case study of the rivers trusts, United Kingdom. Front. Environ. Sci. 11, 1218055 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Rock, B. M. & Daru, B. H. Impediments to understanding seagrasses’ response to global change. Front. Mar. Sci. 8, 608867 (2021).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

von Gönner, J. et al. Citizen science shows that small agricultural streams in Germany are in a poor ecological status. Sci. Total. Environ. 922, 171183 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Besson, M. et al. Towards the fully automated monitoring of ecological communities. Ecol. Lett. 25, 2753–2775 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Tuia, D. et al. Perspectives in machine learning for wildlife conservation. Nat. Commun. 13, 792 (2022).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Kissling, W. D. et al. Development of a cost-efficient automated wildlife camera network in a European Natura 2000 site. Basic. Appl. Ecol. 79, 141–152 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Leese, F. et al. Improved freshwater macroinvertebrate detection from environmental DNA through minimized nontarget amplification. Environ. DNA 3, 261–276 (2021).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Yu, D. W. et al. Biodiversity soup: metabarcoding of arthropods for rapid biodiversity assessment and biomonitoring. Methods Ecol. Evol. 3, 613–623 (2012).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Altermatt, F. et al. Utilizing aquatic environmental DNA to address global biodiversity targets. Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 332–346 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Zemanova, M. A. Noninvasive genetic assessment is an effective wildlife research tool when compared with other approaches. Genes 12, 1672 (2021).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

EFTAS Fernerkundung Technologietransfer GmbH, Institute for Agroecology and Biodiversity (IFAB) & Environment Agency Austria (EEA). EMBAL Survey Manual 2021 (European Commission, Directorate-General for Environment, 2021).

European Commission. European Monitoring of Biodiversity in Agricultural Landscapes (EMBAL). JRC data https://data.jrc.ec.europa.eu/dataset/723355a8-e549-4691-9c0d-83ab7fc7a0c4 (2025).

European Environment Agency. Catchments and Rivers Network System ECRINS v1.1—Rationales, Building and Improving for Widening Uses to Water Accounts and WISE Applications (Publications Office of the European Union, 2012).

Globevnik, L., Koprivsek, M. & Snoj, L. Metadata to the MARS spatial database. Freshw. Metadata J. 21, 1–7 (2017).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Metzger, M. J., Bunce, R. G. H., Jongman, R. H. G., Mücher, C. A. & Watkins, J. W. A climatic stratification of the environment of Europe. Glob. Ecol. Biogeogr. 14, 549–563 (2005).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Costello, M. J., Basher, Z., Sayre, R., Breyer, S. & Wright, D. J. Stratifying ocean sampling globally and with depth to account for environmental variability. Sci. Rep. 8, 11259 (2018).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Lyche Solheim, A. et al. A new broad typology for rivers and lakes in Europe: development and application for large-scale environmental assessments. Sci. Total. Environ. 697, 134043 (2019).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Jongman, R. H. G. et al. Objectives and applications of a statistical environmental stratification of Europe. Landsc. Ecol. 21, 409–419 (2006).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Newbold, T. et al. Global effects of land use on local terrestrial biodiversity. Nature 520, 45–50 (2015).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Carvalho, L. et al. Sustaining recreational quality of European lakes: minimizing the health risks from algal blooms through phosphorus control. J. Appl. Ecol. 50, 315–323 (2013).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Ellis, E. C. Ecology in an anthropogenic biosphere. Ecol. Monogr. 85, 287–331 (2015).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Jänicke, C., Petersen, K. A., Schmidts, P., Müller, D. & Jepsen, M. R. Field and farm-level data on agricultural land use for the European Union. Sci. Data 12, 1050 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Agnesi, S. et al. Spatial Analysis of Marine Protected Area Networks in Europe’s Seas III. 40 (European Topic Centre on Inland, Coastal and Marine waters (ETC/ICM), 2020).

Hermoso, V., Morán-Ordóñez, A., Lanzas, M. & Brotons, L. Designing a network of green infrastructure for the EU. Landsc. Urban. Plan. 196, 103732 (2020).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Hoffmann, S., Beierkuhnlein, C., Field, R., Provenzale, A. & Chiarucci, A. Uniqueness of protected areas for conservation strategies in the European Union. Sci. Rep. 8, 6445 (2018).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Belletti, B. et al. More than one million barriers fragment Europe’s rivers. Nature 588, 436–441 (2020).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Keller, M., Schimel, D. S., Hargrove, W. W. & Hoffman, F. M. A continental strategy for the national ecological observatory network. Front. Ecol. Environ. 6, 282–284 (2008).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Guerin, G. R., Williams, K. J., Leitch, E., Lowe, A. J. & Sparrow, B. Using generalised dissimilarity modelling and targeted field surveys to gap-fill an ecosystem surveillance network. J. Appl. Ecol. 58, 766–776 (2021).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Carvalho, S. B., Gonçalves, J., Guisan, A. & Honrado, J. P. Systematic site selection for multispecies monitoring networks. J. Appl. Ecol. 53, 1305–1316 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Wägele, J. W. et al. Towards a multisensor station for automated biodiversity monitoring. Basic. Appl. Ecol. 59, 105–138 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Thorpe, A. S. et al. Introduction to the sampling designs of the national ecological observatory network terrestrial observation system. Ecosphere 7, e01627 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Potts, S. G. et al. Proposal for an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme. Report No. EUR 30416 EN (Publications Office of the European Union, 2021).

Moe, S. J., Mentzel, S., Welch, S. A. & Lyche Solheim, A. From national monitoring to transnational indicators: reporting and processing of aquatic biology data under the European Environment Agency’s state of the environment data flow. Front. Environ. Sci. 11, 1057742 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Elmendorf, S. C. et al. The plant phenology monitoring design for the national ecological observatory network. Ecosphere 7, e01303 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Rapinel, S., Panhelleux, L., Lalanne, A. & Hubert-Moy, L. Combined use of environmental and spectral variables with vegetation archives for large-scale modeling of grassland habitats. Prog. Phys. Geogr.: Earth Environ. 46, 3–27 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Musinsky, J. et al. Spanning scales: the airborne spatial and temporal sampling design of the national ecological observatory network. Methods Ecol. Evol. 13, 1866–1884 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Patrício, J. et al. European marine biodiversity monitoring networks: strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. Front. Mar. Sci. 3, 161 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Valdez, J. W. et al. The undetectability of global biodiversity trends using local species richness. Ecography 2023, e06604 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Nielsen, S. E., Haughland, D. L., Bayne, E. & Schieck, J. Capacity of large-scale, long-term biodiversity monitoring programmes to detect trends in species prevalence. Biodivers. Conserv. 18, 2961–2978 (2009).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Pearman, P. B. et al. Monitoring of species’ genetic diversity in Europe varies greatly and overlooks potential climate change impacts. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 8, 267–281 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Gonzalez, A. et al. A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 7, 1947–1952 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Hoban, S. et al. Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition. Biol. Rev. 97, 1511–1538 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Biggs, J., von Fumetti, S. & Kelly-Quinn, M. The importance of small waterbodies for biodiversity and ecosystem services: implications for policy makers. Hydrobiologia 793, 3–39 (2017).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Stubbington, R. et al. Biomonitoring of intermittent rivers and ephemeral streams in Europe: current practice and priorities to enhance ecological status assessments. Sci. Total. Environ. 618, 1096–1113 (2018).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Jessop, A. et al. Overview and Assessment of the Current State of Marine Biodiversity Monitoring in the European Union and Adjacent Marine Waters (RTD/2021/MV/11) (European Commission, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, 2022).

Weigand, H. et al. DNA barcode reference libraries for the monitoring of aquatic biota in Europe: gap-analysis and recommendations for future work. Sci. Total. Environ. 678, 499–524 (2019).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Lumbierres, M. et al. Towards implementing workflows for Essential Biodiversity Variables at a European scale. Glob. Ecol. Conserv. 62, e03699 (2025).


Google Scholar
 

Lumbierres, M. & Kissling, W. D. Important first steps towards designing the freshwater, marine and terrestrial Essential Biodiversity Variable (EBV) workflows for the European Biodiversity Observation Network. Res. Ideas Outcomes 9, e109120 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Fernández, N., Ferrier, S., Navarro, L. M. & Pereira, H. M. in Remote Sensing of Plant Biodiversity (eds Cavender-Bares, J., Gamon, J. A. & Townsend, P. A.) 485–501 (Springer International, 2020).

Kissling, W. D. et al. Building Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) of species distribution and abundance at a global scale. Biol. Rev. 93, 600–625 (2018).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Boyd, R. J. et al. An operational workflow for producing periodic estimates of species occupancy at national scales. Biol. Rev. 98, 1492–1508 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Fernández, N. et al. D5.7. Report on the use of multiple EBV data streams and derived indicators for cross-cutting assessments of biodiversity. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e129447 (2024).

Tulloch, A. I. T., Hagger, V. & Greenville, A. C. Ecological forecasts to inform near-term management of threats to biodiversity. Glob. Change Biol. 26, 5816–5828 (2020).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Capinha, C., Monteiro, A. T. & Ceia-Hasse, A. Supporting early detection of biological invasions through short-term spatial forecasts of detectability. NeoBiota 96, 191–210 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Capinha, C. et al. Using citizen science data for predicting the timing of ecological phenomena across regions. BioScience 74, 383–392 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Ceia-Hasse, A., Sousa, C. A., Gouveia, B. R. & Capinha, C. Forecasting the abundance of disease vectors with deep learning. Ecol. Inform. 78, 102272 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Bradarić, M., Kranstauber, B., Bouten, W. & Shamoun-Baranes, J. Forecasting nocturnal bird migration for dynamic aeroconservation: the value of short-term datasets. J. Appl. Ecol. 61, 1147–1158 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Dennis, E. B., Morgan, B. J. T., Freeman, S. N., Brereton, T. M. & Roy, D. B. A generalized abundance index for seasonal invertebrates. Biometrics 72, 1305–1314 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Van Swaay, C. A. M. et al. The EU Butterfly Indicator for Grassland species: 1990–2017. Butterfly Conservation Europe & ABLE/eBMS www.butterfly-monitoring.net (2019).

van Swaay, C. M., Nowicki, P., Settele, J. & van Strien, A. Butterfly monitoring in Europe: methods, applications and perspectives. Biodivers. Conserv. 17, 3455–3469 (2008).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Lyche Solheim, A., Thrane, J.-E., Mentzel, S. & Moe, S. J. Harmonised biological indicators for rivers and lakes: towards European assessment of temporal trends in ecological quality. Ecol. Indic. 171, 113207 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Liquete, C. et al. D2.3 EuropaBON Proposal for an EU Biodiversity Observation Coordination Centre (EBOCC). Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e128042 (2024).

Leung, B. & Gonzalez, A. Global monitoring for biodiversity: uncertainty, risk, and power analyses to support trend change detection. Sci. Adv. 10, eadj1448 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Isaac, N. J. B. et al. Data integration for large-scale models of species distributions. Trends Ecol. Evol. 35, 56–67 (2020).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

European Commission et al. Refined Proposal for an EU Pollinator Monitoring Scheme (Publications Office of the European Union, 2024).

Wägele, J. W. & Tschan, G. F. (eds) Weather Stations for Biodiversity: A Comprehensive Approach to an Automated and Modular Monitoring System Vol. 1 (Pensoft, 2024).

Abecasis, D. et al. A review of acoustic telemetry in Europe and the need for a regional aquatic telemetry network. Anim. Biotelemetry 6, 12 (2018).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

ENETWILD-consortium et al. Wild boar density data generated by camera trapping in nineteen European areas. EFSA Supporting Publ. 19, 7214E (2022).

CAS 

Google Scholar
 

ENETWILD-consortium et al. Wild ungulate density data generated by camera trapping in 37 European areas: first output of the European Observatory of Wildlife (EOW). EFSA Supporting Publ. 20, 7892E (2023).

CAS 

Google Scholar
 

van Klink, R. et al. Emerging technologies revolutionise insect ecology and monitoring. Trends Ecol. Evol. 37, 872–885 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Kays, R. et al. The Movebank system for studying global animal movement and demography. Methods Ecol. Evol. 13, 419–431 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

ENETWILD Consortium et al. Update on the development of the Agouti platform for collaborative science with camera traps and a tool for wildlife abundance estimation. EFSA Supporting Publ. 19, 7327E (2022).

CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Norros, V. et al. Roadmap for Implementing Environmental DNA (eDNA) and Other Molecular Monitoring Methods in Finland—Vision and Action Plan for 2022–2025 (Finnish Environment Institute, 2022).

Buchner, D., Macher, T.-H., Beermann, A. J., Werner, M.-T. & Leese, F. Standardized high-throughput biomonitoring using DNA metabarcoding: strategies for the adoption of automated liquid handlers. Environ. Sci. Ecotechnol. 8, 100122 (2021).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

European Committee for Standardization. CEN/TC 230—water analysis. CENELEC https://standards.cencenelec.eu/ords/f?p=CEN:110:::::FSP_PROJECT,FSP_ORG_ID:72999,6211&cs=1724A9E6CBB3F5C7D336BEE9B6C4B7769 (2023).

Nilsson, R. H. et al. Introducing guidelines for publishing DNA-derived occurrence data through biodiversity data platforms. Metabarcoding Metagenomics 6, e84960 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Abarenkov, K. et al. Publishing DNA-Derived Data Through Biodiversity Data Platforms (GBIF Secretariat, 2023).

Meissner, K., Aroviita, J., Baattrup-Pedersen, A. & Buchner, D. Metabarcoding for Use in Nordic Routine Aquatic Biomonitoring: A Validation Study (Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat, 2020).

Blancher, P. et al. A strategy for successful integration of DNA-based methods in aquatic monitoring. Metabarcoding Metagenomics 6, e85652 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Wilkinson, M. D. et al. The FAIR Guiding Principles for scientific data management and stewardship. Sci. Data 3, 160018 (2016).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Schiller, C., Schmidtlein, S., Boonman, C., Moreno-Martínez, A. & Kattenborn, T. Deep learning and citizen science enable automated plant trait predictions from photographs. Sci. Rep. 11, 16395 (2021).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Albrecht, M. et al. The effectiveness of flower strips and hedgerows on pest control, pollination services and crop yield: a quantitative synthesis. Ecol. Lett. 23, 1488–1498 (2021).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Kelling, S. et al. Using semistructured surveys to improve citizen science data for monitoring biodiversity. BioScience 69, 170–179 (2019).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Oliver, R. Y., Meyer, C., Ranipeta, A., Winner, K. & Jetz, W. Global and national trends, gaps, and opportunities in documenting and monitoring species distributions. PLoS Biol. 19, e3001336 (2021).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Pocock, M. J. O., Logie, M., Isaac, N. J. B., Fox, R. & August, T. The recording behaviour of field-based citizen scientists and its impact on biodiversity trend analysis. Ecol. Indic. 151, 110276 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Bowler, D. E. et al. Temporal trends in the spatial bias of species occurrence records. Ecography 2022, e06219 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Callaghan, C. T., Borda-de-Água, L., van Klink, R., Rozzi, R. & Pereira, H. M. Unveiling global species abundance distributions. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 7, 1600–1609 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Omeer, A. A. & Deshmukh, R. R. Deep learning-based models for classification of invasive plant species from hyperspectral remotely sensed data. In Proc. Int. Conf. Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence (eds Jat, D. S. et al.) 222–230 (Association for Computing Machinery, 2022).

Perez, G. G. et al. Use of Sentinel 2 imagery to estimate vegetation height in fragments of Atlantic forest. Ecol. Inform. 69, 101680 (2022).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Shamoun-Baranes, J. et al. Continental-scale radar monitoring of the aerial movements of animals. Mov. Ecol. 2, 9 (2014).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Hardisty, A. R. et al. The Bari Manifesto: an interoperability framework for Essential Biodiversity Variables. Ecol. Inform. 49, 22–31 (2019).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Wisz, M. S. et al. The role of biotic interactions in shaping distributions and realised assemblages of species: implications for species distribution modelling. Biol. Rev. 88, 15–30 (2013).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Kissling, W. D. et al. Towards novel approaches to modelling biotic interactions in multispecies assemblages at large spatial extents. J. Biogeogr. 39, 2163–2178 (2012).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Pollock, L. J. et al. Understanding co-occurrence by modelling species simultaneously with a joint species distribution model (JSDM). Methods Ecol. Evol. 5, 397–406 (2014).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Maes, J. et al. Accounting for forest condition in Europe based on an international statistical standard. Nat. Commun. 14, 3723 (2023).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Navarro, L. M. et al. Integrating historical sources for long-term ecological knowledge and biodiversity conservation. Nat. Rev. Biodivers. 1, 657–670 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Basset, A., Tarantini, S. O., Eggermont, H., Mandon, C. & Vihervaara, P. Report on the Harmonisation and Interoperability of Datasets Across Regions and Countries (Biodiversa+, 2023).

Bubnicki, J. W. et al. Camtrap DP: an open standard for the FAIR exchange and archiving of camera trap data. Remote. Sens. Ecol. Conserv. 10, 283–295 (2024).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Sica, Y. V. et al. Enabling ecological survey data integration with the Humboldt Extension to Darwin Core. Ecography 2025, e08223 (2025).


Google Scholar
 

Breeze, T. et al. D3.4 Cost-effectiveness analysis of monitoring schemes. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints (2023).

Kissling, W. D. et al. Towards a modern and efficient European Biodiversity Observation Network fit for multiple policies. Preprint at EcoEvoRxiv https://doi.org/10.32942/X2K34F (2024).

Breeze, T. et al. D4.4 Business model for a European Biodiversity Observation Network based on the outcomes of the cost–benefit analysis of different monitoring scheme option. Preprint at ARPHA Preprints https://doi.org/10.3897/arphapreprints.e173693 (2025).

Gonzalez, A., Chase, J. M. & O’Connor, M. I. A framework for the detection and attribution of biodiversity change. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. B: Biol. Sci. 378, 20220182 (2023).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Affinito, F. et al. Assessing coverage of the monitoring framework of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and opportunities to fill gaps. Nat. Ecol. Evol. 9, 1280–1294 (2025).

Article 
CAS 

Google Scholar
 

Hébert, K. et al. Selecting indicators to track progress towards the Global Biodiversity Framework: a case study of Quebec’s 2030 Nature Plan. FACETS 10, 1–13 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar
 

Kim, H. et al. From data to decision: leveraging essential variables in standardizing biodiversity and ecosystem services monitoring and reporting. Preprint at EcoEvoRxiv https://doi.org/10.32942/X2130Z (2025).

EuropaBON. EBV descriptions. GitHub https://github.com/EuropaBON/EBV-Descriptions (2024).

Kissling, W. D. et al. Data underpinning the EuropaBON roadmap for a unified, transnational biodiversity observation system in Europe. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16940232 (2025).

Article 

Google Scholar