- Achievements and challenges of biodiversity observations under climatic and societal changes in the Asia and Pacific region -

24-26 October 2018
Venue: Kyoto, Japan

Objectives of the AP BON session:

Asia Pacific Biodiversity Observation Network (AP BON) has been making efforts to develop and network biodiversity observations in the Asia and Pacific region since its establishment in 2009, including observations of ecosystems and nature’s contributions to people. AP BON has convened scientists and users (e.g., IPBES) of biodiversity data and knowledge in terrestrial, freshwater, coastal and marine ecosystems, in the AP region encompassing boreal to tropics. The findings by the AP BON involves numerous topics such as recognizing new plant species in tropical forests in Southeast Asian countries, fish biodiversity and water environment, and services of coast and marine biodiversity. Collaborative research with its partner networks, including GBIF (Global Biodiversity Information Facility), ILTER-EAP (East Asia and pacific regional network of International Long-Term Ecological Research network) and PEN (Phenological Eyes Network), provided knowledge of species distribution, primary production and phenology as the essential variables for terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystem, as well as the opportunity to link between in-situ field data and satellite remote sensing. The importance of the river basin scale observations was also clarified in order to evaluate the socio-ecological systems in the region. In addition to the progress in these observations, data sharing, knowledge-base construction, and capacity building have been advanced.

Based on these achievements, AP BON is making a new challenge to develop its activities of observations, data sharing, assessments and capacity building as well as outreach to the societal needs. Thus, the objectives of this session are, (1) to review the achievements of the last AP BON workshop (especially about the work plan paper), (2) to implement work plans specific to regions and subjects through the concrete collaborations of AP BON contributors, including observation strategies in some candidate master sites, (3) to implement work plans for the data collection, sharing, integrated analysis, and synthesis to meet the scientific questions and societal needs (e.g., UN’s sustainable development goals, i.e., SDGs), (4) to discuss the development of newly incorporated collaborators and/or field sites in AP regions, and then (5) to consolidate our discussion as the implementation plan of future AP BON and its collaboration with other Task Groups in Asia Oceania GEOSS and other associated international initiatives.

Towards achieving these goals, we specifically focus on the following topics:

From forest:
(a) Networking of forest plots in Asian countries (including the possibility of satellite tracking of migratory birds).
(b) Relationship among phenology, ecosystem process, and biodiversity.
(c) Possible linkage with UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere (MAB) programme.
(d) Evaluation of ecosystem services and biodiversity in river basin scale.

From fresh water:
(a) Networking and achievements of freshwater fish biodiversity observation in Southeast Asia.
(b) Subsequent monitoring of freshwater fish biodiversity in Southeast Asia.

From marine:
(a) Listing potential collaborators to join the network to observe spatial-temporal patterns
(b) Facilitation of broad scale observations focusing on feasibility of pole-to-pole analysis
(c) Recent monitoring methods to be considered in the above activities.

Co-Chairs:
   Tetsukazu Yahara (Kyusyu Universeity, Japan)
   Sheila Vergara (ASEAN Centre of Biodiversity, Philippines)
   Eun-Shik Kim (Kookmin University, Republic of Korea)

Session Co-organizers:
   Yayoi Takeuchi (National Institute for Environmental Studies, Japan)
   Shin Nagai (JAMSTEC, Japan)
   Takehisa Yamakita (JAMSTEC, Japan)
   Yuichi Kano (Kyusyu University, Japan)
   Kaoru Kitajima (Kyoto University, Japan)

13:30-14:10	Opening session 1. Remarks by Ministry of the Environment, Japan 2. Remarks by Co-chair of APBON 3. Taking group photographs
14:10-15:30	Plenary presentations
14:10-14:50	Achievements of the last APBON workshop	Sheila Vergara and Tetsukazu Yahara	[PDF 6.1MB]
14:50-15:10	New ideas for a revised work plan from 2019 to 2021	Tetsukazu Yahara	[PDF 679KB]
15:10-15:30	Recent progress in GEO BON	Laetitia Navarro	[PDF 4.7MB]
15:30-15:45	Tea Break
15:45-16:10	Keynote presentation and discussion (from forest) “Networking of forest plots in Asian countries”	Chair (and 5 min. presentation): Dr. K. Kitajima	[PDF 997KB]
16:10-16:35	Keynote presentation and discussion (from forest) “Relationship among phenology, ecosystem process, and biodiversity”	Chair (and 5 min. presentation): Dr. S. Nagai	[PDF 3.5MB]
16:35-16:50	Keynote presentation and discussion (from forest) “Possible linkage with the UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere programme” “UNESCO’s Man and Biosphere programme in Indonesia”	Chair (and 5 min. presentation): Dr. Y. Takeuchi Dedy Darnaedi	[PDF 4.8MB]
16:50-17:15	Keynote presentation and discussion (from forest) “Evaluation of ecosystem services and biodiversity in river basin scale”	Chair (and 5 min. presentation): Dr. Y. Trisurat	[PDF 6MB]
17:15-17:45	Keynote presentation and discussion (from fresh water) “Threats and future of freshwater fish biodiversity in Southeast Asia”	Chair (and 5 min. presentation): Dr. Y. Kano	[PDF 2MB]
17:45-17:50	Activities in TERN Australia	Mark Grant	[PDF 2MB]
17:50-18:00	Announcement and comments

9:00-9:30	Keynote presentation and discussion (from marine) “Feasibility of large scale analysis and potential networking as AP-MBON”	Chair (and 5 min. presentation): Dr. Yamakita	[PDF 747KB]
9:30-10:00	Discussion “Possibility of the collaboration with AOGEOSS”	Chair: Dr. H. Muraoka	[PDF 2.7MB]
10:00-10:15	Tea Break
10:15-12:00	Group session (forest, fresh water, marine) Parallel session of sub groups (Time: TBD) (Joint session with Ocean, Coast and Island WG) Theme: −“Data collection, sharing, analysis, and synthesis within the members of APBON” −“Development of newly incorporated collaborators and/or field sites in AP regions”
12:00-13:30	Lunch Break
13:30-15:00	Group session continued
15:00-15:15	Tea break
15:15-	Wrap-up session	Drs. T. Yahara, Sheila Vergara, and Eun-Shik Kim	[PDF 2.7MB]
15:15-16:00	Report from Group session (forest, fresh water, marine) report from fresh water report from marine report from forest		[PDF 2.1MB] [PDF 3.3MB]
16:00-17:30	Discussion and preparation for the statement
18:30-	Reception dinner hosted by Ministry of the Environment, Japan