25 March 2025 | 13:30 - 15:30 (MDT)
Open Session - HYBRID
Room: UMC Third Floor - 384
Organisers: Gabriela Schaepman-Strub (Dept. of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Switzerland); Amy Breen (University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA)
Session Description:
The aim of this session is to reflect on urgent questions we would like to answer during the 5th IPY, what results and data are existing from previous efforts and how to link those to new measurements during the 5th IPY and beyond. This session will therefore serve to recap current knowledge and data and reflect on how to move towards measurement standards and protocols that can be applied by taxonomic and non-taxonomic specialists to secure long-term records of terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem functions. Reporting on existing results of past efforts and reflecting on gaps and future sampling needs, methods across biological organization and scales and designs are especially welcome. We invite everybody interested in the coordination of IPY terrestrial microbial, bryophyte, lichen, and vascular plant diversity assessments and synthesis to submit contributions, and to start coordination of these efforts, across disciplines and knowledge systems.