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. 2019 Aug 13;116(33):16155-16158.
doi: 10.1073/pnas.1911799116.

Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity

Franziska Schrodt  1 , Joseph J Bailey  2 , W Daniel Kissling  3 , Kenneth F Rijsdijk  3 , Arie C Seijmonsbergen  3 , Derk van Ree  4   5 , Jan Hjort  6 , Russell S Lawley  7 , Christopher N Williams  7 , Mark G Anderson  8 , Paul Beier  9 , Pieter van Beukering  5 , Doreen S Boyd  10 , José Brilha  11 , Luis Carcavilla  12 , Kyla M Dahlin  13 , Joel C Gill  14 , John E Gordon  15 , Murray Gray  16 , Mike Grundy  17 , Malcolm L Hunter  18 , Joshua J Lawler  19 , Manu Monge-Ganuzas  20 , Katherine R Royse  7 , Iain Stewart  21 , Sydne Record  22 , Woody Turner  23 , Phoebe L Zarnetske  24 , Richard Field  10
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Opinion: To advance sustainable stewardship, we must document not only biodiversity but geodiversity

Franziska Schrodt et al. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. .
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Mining is one example of the human impact on geodiversity. Active mines cause a decrease in local biodiversity, but in some cases they can provide an important habitat for specialized and rare species after the mine has been abandoned. Image credit: Shutterstock/1968.
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Fig. 1.
Schematic proportions of the Earth covered by existing EBVs (green), ECVs (light blue), and EOVs (dark blue) and by our proposed EGVs (orange). Although life occurs throughout the ocean environment, EOVs refer predominately to abiotic aspects such as ocean physics and biogeochemistry, which do not overlap with EBVs (by definition exclusively covering biotic aspects). Consequently, the EBV box does not extend across the whole Earth surface (horizontal axis). Some essential variables do overlap, as indicated by the striped sections, for example, zooplankton diversity is both an EBV and EOV, whereas surface water is both an ECV and EGV. Several major international conventions (right) monitor and assess networks associated with each essential variable concept.
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