Collaborative monitoring to protect California’s biodiversity and guide science-based conservation
Building a Statewide Network of Monitoring Sites
Establish a network of multi-jurisdictional biodiversity monitoring sites managed by multiple partner organizations to establish biodiversity baselines and to assess change over time.
Uniting Partners for Long-Term Collaboration
Assemble a network of partners committed to long-term monitoring utilizing shared standardized protocols for a minimum of 5 years (and ideally longer) to assess long-term biodiversity and climate trends.
Tracking Biodiversity and Climate Change Over Time
Utilize network data to quantify biodiversity trends, particularly in response to climate, land-use change, and other shifting environmental conditions and stressors across the state and guide defensible, science-backed management decisions designed to sustain biodiversity and functioning ecosystems.
Creating Databases to Support 30×30 California
Build long-term databases that can be used to inform the goals of 30×30 California and related conservation and climate adaptation/mitigation programs and strategies.
Standardizing and Sharing Open-Access Data
Standardize and aggregate California’s climate and biodiversity data into shared, open-access repositories to enable regional and statewide temporal assessments of biodiversity.
Fostering Innovation Through Partnership
Connect and create opportunities for additional monitoring, analysis, and innovation through resource-sharing among network partners