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Towards a Comprehensive Geodiversity - Biodiversity Nexus in Terrestrial Ecosystems

Carl Beierkuhnlein1, Brittany Pugh2, Sophie Justice3, Ghada El Serafy4, Arnon Karnieli5, Ioannis Manakos6, Lukas Nietsch6, Julio Peñas de Giles7, Andreas Peterek8, Dimitris Poursanidis9, Zbignev Zwoliński10, Timothy White11, Edyta Wozniak12, Richard Field13, Antonello Provenzale14
1 Chair of Biogeography, University of Bayreuth
2 Kings College, London, UK
3 European Geoparks, Digne-les-Bains, France
4 Deltares, NL
5 Ben Gurion University, Israel
6 CRT Hellas, Greece
7 Departamento de Botanica, Univ. Granada, Spain
8 Geopark Bayern-Böhmen
9 FORTH, Greece
10 Adam Mickiewicz Univ. Poland
11 Penn State Univ., USA
12 Polish Academy of Science, Poland
13 University of Nottingham, UK
14 Istituto di Geoscienze e Georisorse, CNR

P 6.12 in Posters

Challenges related to Global Change require a comprehensive approach to terrestrial natural systems including their abiotic and biotic diversity and the functional consequences of processes and interactions.

Diversity of natural entities across spatial and temporal scales is resulting in high degrees of complexity, which make it difficult to understand the entire functioning. Hitherto, diversity and complexity were approached mostly from specific disciplinary perspectives. Here, we provide a conceptual approach to characterize and quantify aspects of natural diversity across spatio-temporal scales. This approach serves as a framework for Earth-Observation based monitoring of changes in ecosystem fluxes.

Functional concept for the geodiversity/ biodiversity nexus as an interplay of traits, processes, rates, and fluxes.
Functional concept for the geodiversity/ biodiversity nexus as an interplay of traits, processes, rates, and fluxes.



Keywords: Geoecology, Theory, Complexity