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Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Group

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Terrestrial and Freshwater Biodiversity Group
Biodiversity, Ecosystem Services and Human Health
Preserving Coastal and Marine Biodiversity
Major Biodiversity Bottlenecks: A Hotspots' Salvage Strategy
Maintaining Key Evolutionary Processes
Social Drivers and Biodiversity Social Forces
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 The aim of the terrestrial and freshwater biodiversity group was to consider particularly what we do not know about the distribution of species, and how this ignorance harms our ability to protect biological diversity. At a broad level, we do know where the hotspots are in terrestrial environments. However, on closer inspection, substantial gaps exist between the scale of our knowledge -- typically of very large areas -- and the much smaller areas that are the practical units for conservation. Even the knowledge we have tends to be of well-known groups of species. For freshwater environments, the patterns of species distribution and threats to species are even less well known. The terrestrial and freshwater group considered what we must do to increase our knowledge to the point where conservation planning can be practical and efficient.

Stuart Pimm (Group Chair)
Professor of Conservation Biology
Center for Environmental Research and Conservation
Columbia University

Roger Kitching
Chair in Ecology
Environmental Sciences
Griffith University

Peter Raven
Director
Missouri Botanic Garden

Melanie Stiassny
Axelrod Curator
Department of Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History

Diana Wall
Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory
Natural and Environmental Sciences
Colorado State University

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