ID: 1804
Presenting Author: Benjamin Stimpson
Session: 603 - Using global biodiversity data to make past assessments and future projections
Status: pending
How do global input datasets change the conclusions of ecoregion structural intactness of the period 2000-2020?
Measurements of ecosystem structure are a key input into impact assessment and corporate biodiversity impact accounting tools. However, to what extent these mesaurements may yield different results is poorly understood. Here, I will present the effect of using different global measures of anthropogenic footprint as inputs to estimates of the structural intactness of ecoregions over the period 2000-2020. I will then discuss the implications of these differences for conservation policy, corporate biodiversity impact accounting, and impact assessment.
Benjamin is a DPhil candidate in the Interdiscplinary Centre for Conservation Science at the University of Oxford and an environmental researcher at Osmosis Investment Management.