Conservationists are striving to assess all of the world’s terrestrial, freshwater, marine, and subterranean ecosystems by 2025, and to create the first IUCN Red List of Ecosystems of the World
An overview of the methodologies used to create a regional land-cover data set and the issues associated with large-area mapping within a coordinated, multi-institutional management framework.
Ecological Integrity Assessments provide a standard “biophysical exam” that tell us how well an ecosystem is doing, including providing for species habitat needs.