Petteri Vihervaara Patricia Balvanera Amanda E. Bates Elisa Bayraktarov Peter J. Bellingham Andreas Bruder Jillian Campbell Michael D. Catchen Jeannine Cavender-Bares Jonathan Chase Nicholas Coops Mark J. Costello Maria Dornelas Gregoire Dubois Emmett J. Duffy Hilde Eggermont Nestor Fernandez Simon Ferrier Gary N. Geller Michael J. Gill Dominique Gravel Carlos A. Guerra Robert P. Guralnick Michael Harfoot Tim Hirsch Sean M. Hoban Alice C. Hughes Margaret Hunter Forest Isbell Walter Jetz Norbert Juergens W. Daniel Kissling Cornelia B. Krug Yvan Le Bras Brian Leung Maria C. Londoño-Murcia Jean-Michel Lord Michel Loreau Amy Luers Keping Ma Anna J. MacDonald Melodie McGeoch Katie L. Millette Zsolt Molnar Akira S. Mori Frank E. Muller-Karger Hiroyuki Muraoka Laetitia M. Navarro Tim Newbold Aidin Niamir David Obura Mary O’Connor Marc Paganini Henrique M. Pereira Timothee Poisot Laura J. Pollock Andy Purvis Adriana Radulovici Duccio Rocchini Michael E. Schaepman Gabriela Schaepman-Strub Dirk S. Schmeller Ute Schmiedel Fabien D. Schneider Mangal M. Shakya Andrew K Skidmore Andrew L. Skowno Yayoi Takeuchi Mao-Ning Tuanmu Eren Turak Woody Turner Mark C. Urban Nicolas Urbina-Cardona Ruben Valbuena Basile van Havre Elaine Wright Andrew Gonzalez 2023 The rate and extent of global biodiversity change is surpassing our ability to measure, monitor and forecast trends. We propose an interconnected worldwide system of observation networks — a global biodiversity observing system (GBiOS) — to coordinate monitoring worldwide and inform action to reach international biodiversity targets. application/pdf 10.1038/s41559-023-02171-0 en Nature A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action article