Goedkoop, Willem
- Institutionen för vatten och miljö, Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet
Sammanfattning
The past 50 years have seen biomonitoring emerge as an essential means of generating the knowledge needed to inform protection and restoration of freshwater ecosystems. Despite the successes of biomonitoring, most freshwater ecosystems remain unmonitored. Moreover, degradation of freshwaters continues at a rapid rate with new threats and novel stressors emerging that are difficult to assess using existing techniques. New technologies and techniques have been developed to improve biomonitoring, but application has been slow and integration with existing approaches is often problematic. Clearly, freshwater biomonitoring faces many important challenges that must be addressed to meet management needs of the coming decades. We identify Grand Challenges facing freshwater biomonitoring with the aim of encouraging research and practice to address these challenges. We asked 256 biomonitoring scientists from around the globe to identify what they considered the most important challenges. From their submissions we established five Grand Challenges and 18 associated sub-challenges. For each Grand Challenge, we outline the current state of biomonitoring practice and suggest promising pathways and approaches to address them. By identifying and describing these challenges, we strive to position freshwater biomonitoring to take advantage of emerging opportunities and enhance its capacity to meet current and future management needs.
Nyckelord
Develop protocols; Construct infrastructure; Holistic ecological context; Empower communities; Ensure FAIR data
Publicerad i
Ecological Indicators
2025, volym: 176, artikelnummer: 113646
Utgivare: ELSEVIER
SLU författare
UKÄ forskningsämne
Ekologi
Miljövetenskap
Publikationens identifierare
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2025.113646
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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/142698