The Global Centre for Risk and Innovation (GCRI)
The research behind Biodiversity Nexus: the questions it asks, the methods it uses and how evidence is reviewed before it is published.
Biodiversity Nexus research is the evidence work behind the platform: questions such as ecosystem integrity and species and genetic diversity, answered with ecology and biodiversity science as well as Earth observation and remote sensing and reviewed before publication. Every result carries an evidence label, from observed to modelled or expert judgement, and missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Fig.How a finding is reviewed before it is published. Design, not a record.
Mountain ranges, deserts, wetlands, glaciers and reefs, and how remote each division is from large cities, shown for East Africa as an example geography for this subject.
Habitat condition and ecological thresholds.
Species populations and genetic diversity.
Forest health and landscape fragmentation.
Watershed and wetland resilience.
Marine ecosystems, fish stocks and coastal integrity.
Monitoring and effectiveness.
The biodiversity agenda concentrates on the dependencies that turn ecosystem change into risk for water, food, health and coasts, and on the measurement problems that keep those dependencies invisible.
Results are labelled as observed, officially reported, estimated, modelled, forecast, scenario or expert judgement. Missing data is shown as missing, never filled silently.
Each term as this page uses it. Where a standard-setting body defines the term, the wording follows that body.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Research integrity | Conduct of research in line with principles of reliability, honesty, respect and accountability, as the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity sets them out. |
| Evidence label | A tag on an assertion naming the kind of evidence behind it, such as observed, officially reported or modelled. |
| Reproducibility | Obtaining consistent results using the same data and analysis code as the original study. |
| Biodiversity Intactness Index | An estimate of the average abundance of originally present species in an area relative to an undisturbed reference. |
The bodies and documents this page is read against. Status and editions change; each link goes to the issuing body.
The current service level is R0: information and enquiries. An enquiry receives a reference and names the next step; applications, payments, compute allocations and registrations open only when their team, terms and review capacity exist.