IUCN Gland Switzerland

Sep 12, 2023 | conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com | Frank Hawkins |Craig Beatty |Thomas Brooks |IUCN Gland Switzerland

Ensuring that companies can assess and manage their impacts on biodiversity will be crucial to solving the current biodiversity crisis, and regulatory and public pressure to disclose these impacts is increasing. Top-down intactness metrics (e.g. Mean Species Abundance) can be valuable for generating high-level or first-tier assessments of impact risk, but do not provide sufficient precision or guidance for companies, regulators or third-party assessors.