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- Terrestrial biodiversity assessment is crucial for effective biodiversity protection, requiring an understanding of its status, trends, and influencing factors.
- A new comprehensive indicator system for assessing China's terrestrial biodiversity combines global standards and frameworks, encompassing 22 indicators categorized into status, pressure, and response.
- This system can be utilized for independent assessments and regional policy formulation, ultimately contributing to initiatives like green GDP calculations and ecological compensation strategies.
Article Abstract
The comprehensive evaluation of terrestrial biodiversity is a key basic work for biodiversity protection. Clarifying the status, trend, and driving factors of biodiversity is premise and necessary for formulating policies and measures of biodiversity protection. At present, there is no unified indicator system for the comprehensive assessment of terrestrial biodiversity in China. We constructed a comprehensive assessment indicator system of terrestrial biodiversity in China, by combining the Aichi biodiversity targets of the Convention on Biological Diversity and the sustainable development goals of the United Nations, learning from the development trend of biodiversity assessment in the world, and following the Pressure-State-Response framework. A total of 22 indicators were obtained, including eight status indicators, seven pressure indicators, and seven response indicators. The correlation and accessibility of the indicators were analyzed. These indicators could be applied to not only an independent assessment for biodiversity status, threatened and protection effectiveness, but also for the comprehensive assessment of terrestrial biodiversity to optimize and adjust priority protection areas and protection measures. Our results would provide a technical support for calculating green GDP and formulating regional ecological compensation policies.
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