Maria Cecilia Londoño-Murcia

Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt · Biodiversity assessment and monitoring programme

Creating software tools that address the needs of a wide range of decision-makers requires the inclusion of differing perspectives throughout the development process. Software tools for biodiversity conservation often fall short in this regard, partly because broad decision-maker needs may exceed the toolkits of single research groups or even insti...

The Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity set the agenda for global aspirations and action to reverse biodiversity loss. The GBF includes an explicit goal for maintaining and restoring biodiversity, encompassing ecosystems, species and genetic diversity (goal A), targets for ecosystem prot...

Analizar las dinámicas y umbrales de resiliencia de los sistemas socioecológicos de manera integrada ayuda a la toma de decisiones sobre la gestión de la biodiversidad en el piedemonte de la región de la Orinoquia y a impulsar transiciones socioecológicas hacia la sostenibilidad. Disponible en: http://reporte.humboldt.org.co/biodiversidad/2022/cap2...

The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets.

Spatial resources accessible for the derivation of biodiversity indicators of the class ecosystem structure are sparse and disparate, and their integration into computer algorithms for biodiversity monitoring remains problematic. We describe ecochange as an R‐package that integrates spatial analyses with a monitoring workflow for computing routines...

Many stakeholders, from governments to civil society to businesses, lack the data they need to make informed decisions on biodiversity, jeopardising efforts to conserve, restore and sustainably manage nature. Here we review the importance of enhancing biodiversity monitoring, assess the challenges involved and identify potential solutions. Capacity...

Global biodiversity and ecosystem service models typically operate independently. Ecosystem service projections may therefore be overly optimistic because they do not always account for the role of biodiversity in maintaining ecological functions. We review models used in recent global model intercomparison projects and develop a novel model integr...

Human impacts on the Earth’s biosphere are driving the global biodiversity crisis. Governments are preparing to agree on a set of actions intended to halt the loss of biodiversity and put it on a path to recovery by 2050. We provide evidence that the proposed actions can bend the curve for biodiversity, but only if these actions are implemented urg...

EXPERT INPUT TO THE POST-2020 GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY FRAMEWORK: TRANSFORMATIVE ACTIONS ON ALL DRIVERS OF BIODIVERSITY LOSS ARE URGENTLY REQUIRED TO ACHIEVE THE GLOBAL GOALS BY 2050

Models help decision-makers anticipate the consequences of policies for ecosystems and people; for instance, improving our ability to represent interactions between human activities and ecological systems is essential to identify pathways to meet the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. However, use of modeling outputs in decision-making remains unc...

Advances in spatial biodiversity science and nationally available data have enabled the development of indicators that report on biodiversity outcomes, account for uneven global biodiversity between countries, and provide direct planning support. We urge their inclusion in the post-2020 global biodiversity framework.

Tropical ecosystems experience particularly fast transformations largely as a consequence of land use and climate change. Consequences for ecosystem functioning and services are hard to predict and require analyzing multiple data sets simultaneously. Today, we are equipped with a wide range of spatio-temporal observation-based data streams that mon...

El departamento del Quindío contiene una alta diversidad de especies de mamíferos, sustentada en las características excepcionales de su geografía, con extensos ecosistemas altoandinos y paramunos, además de presentar complejas redes hidrográficas con cuencas de gran importancia como los ríos Consota, Barbas, Roble Espejo, Verde, Quindío, Santo Dom...

Understanding Earth system dynamics in light of ongoing human intervention and dependency remains a major scientific challenge. The unprecedented availability of data streams describing different facets of the Earth now offers fundamentally new avenues to address this quest. However, several practical hurdles, especially the lack of data interopera...

The high spatial heterogeneity of tropical forests is one of the main causes for its vast biodiversity, along with other factors such as resource partitioning and habitat structure. Bats are a major component of these ecosystems and provide different functional roles and ecosystem services. This aspect is especially important in highly fragmented e...

El bosque seco tropical es parte importante del desarrollo cultural y económico de las poblaciones humanas. En Colombia alrededor 92 % se ha transformado para la producción agrícola o en áreas urbanas. La región de Montes de María, en el norte de Colombia, donde se encuentra uno de los bosques secos más amenazados del país, se ha visto fuertemente...

RESULTA CLAVE ENTENDER LA SALUD DE LOS ECOSISTEMAS DULCEACUÍCOLAS DE LA CUENCA MAGDALENA-CAUCA, DADO UN SOSTENIDO INCREMENTO DE CONFLICTOS SOCIOAMBIENTALES. PARA ELLO, FUERON PRIORIZADOS 18 DE 205 PARÁMETROS ANALIZADOS ACORDE A LA COMPLEJIDAD ECOLÓGICA, CULTURAL Y ECONÓMICA DE LA CUENCA, PARA SER INCLUIDOS EN UN PROGRAMA DE MONITOREO QU...

Despite international conservation efforts1, deforestation in the Amazon continues apace. While the current focus is on immediate responses to the crisis, the roots of deforestation are deep, institutional and societal. Institutional incentives for land speculation coupled with extreme inequality in tenure are the main engine of deforestation. With...

Understanding Earth system dynamics in the light of ongoing human intervention and dependency remains a major scientific challenge. The unprecedented availability of data streams describing different facets of the Earth now offers fundamentally new avenues to address this quest. However, several practical hurdles, especially the lack of data intero...

Species distribution modeling (SDM) is a booming area of research that has had an exponential increase in use and development in recent years. We performed a search of scientific literature and found 5,533 documents published from 1993 to 2018 using SDM, representing a global network of 4,329 collaborating institutions from 155 countries, with Braz...

Information on species distribution is recognized as a crucial input for biodiversity conservation and management. To that end, considerable resources have been dedicated towards increasing the quantity and availability of species occurrence data, boosting their use in species distribution modeling and online platforms for their dissemination. Curr...

Automated and expert data validation and cleaning procedures in BioModelos. (DOCX)

BioModelos’ main features. (DOCX)

Understanding the effects of climate change (CC) on biodiversity is complex because it involves multiple scales of biodiversity, biotic interactions, phenology, asynchronies, and spatial scales. By reviewing publications on the relationship between CC and biodiversity, the areas of knowledge and institutions that contribute to understanding the sub...

Information on species distribution is recognized as a crucial input for biodiversity conservation and management. To that end, considerable resources have been dedicated towards increasing the quantity and availability of species occurrence data, boosting their use in species distribution modeling and online platforms for their dissemination. Curr...

The ability to monitor changes in biodiversity, and their societal impact, is critical to conserving species and managing ecosystems. While emerging technologies increase the breadth and reach of data acquisition, monitoring efforts are still spatially and temporally fragmented, and taxonomically biased. Appropriate long-term information remains th...

After more than 50-years of armed conflict, Colombia is now transitioning to a more stable social and political climate due to a series of peace agreements between the government and different armed groups. Consequences of these socio-economic and political changes on ecosystems are largely uncertain, but there is growing concern about derived incr...

Colombia is one of the most biodiverse countries on Earth and is currently entering an era of tremendous societal and economic transformations. Formerly inaccessible conflict areas will face development, agricultural expansion, and intrusion of extractive industries threatening Colombia’s ecosystems and biodiversity. This constitutes a great challe...

Colombia is experiencing a tremendous societal and economic transformation with unknown consequences for its biodiversity and ecosystems. While rates of change of land cover and climate have reached unprecedented velocities, information about the state of Colombian ecosystems is becoming increasingly available and openly accessible. However, these...

As peace consolidates in Colombia, can biodiversity survive development? We discuss challenges and opportunities for integrating forest biodiversity conservation into developing, war-dilapidated economies of post-conflict regions, paving the way for a green economy and climate resilient society.

Las cifras y temáticas presentadas a continuación evidencian parte de los retos y oportunidades de gestión de la diversidad biológica continental a los que se enfrenta el país actualmente. A su vez, son un reflejo de algunos proyectos desarrollados sobre diferentes niveles de la biodiversidad, incluyendo procesos socioecológicos que estaban en deud...

Riqueza, provisión y amenazas Una parte importante de la producción obtenida en áreas de alta provisión del recurso pesquero depende de especies amenazadas. Por tal razón, dichas áreas deben ser priorizadas con miras a controlar las presiones principales sobre el recurso íctico y asegurar su sostenibilidad.

El recurso pesquero enfrenta grandes amenazas a nivel mundial, por lo que es de vital importancia analizar su dinámica como alimento y su conservación, como parte integral de la evaluación de un servicio ecosistémico (SE). En los humedales interiores de Colombia, la pesca continental es una actividad de importancia cultural y económica pues ~26% de...

Publicación del componente Humedales del proyecto Insumos Técnicos para la Delimitación de Ecosistemas Estratégicos: páramos y humedales. La obra, de carácter infográfico, revela a una Colombia anfibia y cuenta sobre la complejidad y diversidad de estos ecosistemas en el territorio nacional, con el fin de destacar la importancia de integrar esta nu...

LA REGIÓN ANDINA, EL PIEDEMONTE AMAZÓNICO Y LA GUAJIRA PODRÍAN PRESENTAR UN INCREMENTO EN EL NÚMERO DE ESPECIES DE PLANTAS DE ALTO RIESGO DE INVASIÓN BAJO ESCENARIOS DE CAMBIO CLIMÁTICO.

This paper presents e-clouds as a tool to support biodiversity decision making, offering a Software as a Service (SaaS) paradigm to execute computing and technic intensive applications such as species distribution models. But mere access to these tools is not enough if usability and economy are not aligned with users interests. This article present...

This study modeled ecological niches projected as potential distributions for 313 endangered species listed in the IUCN for Mesoamerica, Chocó and Tropical Andes, of which 285 were plants, and 28 terrestrial vertebrates. Overlapping of endangered species distributions covered most of the region. Ecuador showed close to 30% of its area with 50 endan...

The potential of global biodiversity conservation efforts to also deliver critical benefits, such as carbon storage and freshwater services, is still unclear. Using spatially explicit data on 3,500 range-restricted threatened species, carbon storage, and freshwater provision to people, we conducted tradeoff analyses, explicitly addressing both biod...

This study modeled ecological niches projected as potential distributions for 313 endangered species listed in the IUCN for Mesoamerica, Choco and Tropical Andes, of which 285 were plants, and 28 terrestrial vertebrates. Overlapping of endangered species distributions covered most of the region. Ecuador showed close to 30% of its area with 50 endan...

Mesoamerica, Chocó and the tropical Andes are recognized as biodiversity hotspots where conservation action is urgently needed. Because World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) ecoregions are commonly used as the basis for conservation decisions, an understanding of WWF ecoregions' environmental heterogeneity and their representation in current protect...

Mesoamerica, Choco and the tropical Andes are recognized as biodiversity hotspots where conservation action is urgently needed. Because World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) ecoregions are commonly used as the basis for conservation decisions, an understanding of WWF ecoregions' environmental heterogeneity and their representation in current protect...

Due to cattle ranching and agriculture, natural environments have been transformed into fragmented landscapes. Anthropogenic disturbance affects vegetation structure and microclimate, and changes patterns of snake diversity. This study determines snakes diversity in four habitats that differ in degree of anthropogenic disturbance onGorgona Island,...

En la actualidad los entornos naturales se han convertido en paisajes fragmentados por actividades como la agricultura y la ganadería. La alteración antropogénica determina cambios en la diversidad de serpientes al alterar físicamente el paisaje y generar cambios en la estructura de la vegetación y el microclima. En el presente estudio se determinó...

Using IUCN Red List species as biodiversity surrogates, supplemented with additional analyses based on ecoregional diversity, priority areas for conservation in Mesoamerica, Chocó, and the Tropical Andes were identified using the methods of systematic conservation planning. Species’ ecological niches were modeled from occurrence records using a max...

A total of 1840 individuals from 28 species (19 reptiles and 9 amphibians) were found in Gorgona Island, during june and july 2001. Based on 32 transects placed in four areas with different antropic perturbation degree (Prison, palm plantations, secondary forest and primary forest) it was found that the species richness was higher at the secondary...