Scientific integration and coordination activities of DIVERSITAS, the global change programme dedicated to Biodiversity science

Diversitas将专注于环境科学的综合，整合和全球规模的问题。 该方案将强调全球生物多样性信息网络的规划和实施，预计该网络将为解决上述问题提供可靠的科学依据。 Diversitas将继续在四个核心项目中开展工作？生物起源、生物发现、生物可持续性和生态服务）？和五个交叉网络？关于山脉、风景、淡水、生态健康和入侵物种。这些项目和网络将促进应用领域的综合科学，如生物多样性保护和生物多样性变化与人类健康之间可能存在的联系。 Diversitas将努力召开另一次开放科学会议，以进一步开展综合活动，让更多的发展中国家科学家参与进来，并填补与适应气候变化的科学基础有关的空白。 地球系统科学计划将鼓励地球系统研究界和更广泛的利益攸关方确定最重要的十年尺度地球系统研究问题，这些问题与关注全球环境变化和人类福祉的决策者的需求最相关。 地球系统科学计划将帮助制定下一个十年的地球系统科学议程，特别是作为地球系统科学的虚拟组织，并继续推进其在水、碳、食品和健康等领域的联合计划。Diversitas和地球系统科学计划还将努力确保将其支持的研究成果有效地传达给决策者/政策制定者（例如，通过制定强有力的生物多样性指标、全球数据库和科学政策评估。

Diversitas will focus on synthesis, integration, and global-scale issues of environmental science. The program will emphasize the planning and implementation of the global biodiversity information network (GEO BON) that is expected to provide sound scientific underpinnings for resolution of the above issues. Diversitas will continue to organize its efforts in four core projects ? bioGENESIS, bioDISCOVERY, bioSUSTAINABILITY, and ecoSERVICES) ? and five cross-cutting networks ? on mountains, landscapes, freshwater, eco-health, and invasive species. These projects and networks will promote integrative science in applied areas such as biodiversity conservation and possible links between biodiversity changes and human health. Diversitas will work towards convening another open science conference to carry its synthesis activities further, to engage more developing country scientists, and to fill gaps related to the scientific basis for adaptation to climate change. The ESSP will encourage the Earth system research community and the broader stakeholder community to identify the most important decadal-scale Earth system research questions that are most relevant to the needs of decision-makers concerned with global environmental change and human well-being. The ESSP will help to shape the Earth system science agenda for the next decade, especially by serving as a virtual organization for Earth system science and continuing to advance its joint programs in such areas as water, carbon, food and health.Both Diversitas and the ESSP will also work to assure that the results of the research they support is communicated effectively to decision/policy makers (.e.g., through development of robust biodiversity indicators, global data bases, and science-policy assessments.