title: Biodiversity and ecosystem services science for a sustainable planet: the DIVERSITAS vision for 2012-20.
abstract: DIVERSITAS, the international programme on biodiversity science, is releasing a strategic vision presenting scientific challenges for the next decade of research on biodiversity and ecosystem services: "Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services Science for a Sustainable Planet". This new vision is a response of the biodiversity and ecosystem services scientific community to the accelerating loss of the components of biodiversity, as well as to changes in the biodiversity science-policy landscape (establishment of a Biodiversity Observing Network - GEO BON, of an Intergovernmental science-policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services - IPBES, of the new Future Earth initiative; and release of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020). This article presents the vision and its core scientific challenges.
authors.affiliation: DIVERSITAS, c/o Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), 57, Rue Cuvier - CP 41, 75231 Paris Cedex 05, France.
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references.pmid: 21071651