Habitat-based biodiversity assessment for ecosystem accounting in the Murray-Darling Basin.

ABSTRACT: Understanding how biodiversity is changing over space and time is crucial for well-informed decisions that help retain Earth's biological heritage over the long term. Tracking changes in biodiversity through ecosystem accounting provides this important information in a systematic way and readily enables linking to other relevant environmental and economic data to provide an integrated perspective. We derived biodiversity accounts for the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia's largest catchment. We assessed biodiversity change from 2010 to 2015 for all vascular plants, all waterbirds, and 10 focal species. We applied a scalable habitat-based assessment approach that combined expected patterns in the distribution of biodiversity from spatial biodiversity models with a time series of spatially com

SUBMITTER: Mokany K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9796243 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature