Resource description:
The BON in a Box platform for biodiversity monitoring and indicator calculation, developed by the Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, was created to address the challenges of of fragmented biodiversity monitoring efforts, technical barriers, a lack of available data and tools, and capacity bottlenecks.
The toolkit provides open, transparent, and reproducible analysis pipelines that convert data into essential biodiversity variables and indicators, to support tracking progress and summarizing biodiversity trends towards Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) reporting goals.
Author/Contact:
Jory Griffith , Jean-Michel Lord , Michael D Catchen , Maria Isabel Arce-Plata , F Guillaume Blanchet , Mathusan Chandramohan , M Camila Diaz-Corzo , Dominique Gravel , César Gutiérrez , Isabelle S Helfenstein , Sean Hoban , Jamie M Kass , Linda Laikre , Guillaume Larocque , Deborah M Leigh , Brian Leung , Alicia Mastretta-Yanes , Katie L Millette , Maria Alejandra Molina Berbeo , Dat Nguyen , Kari E Norman , María Helena Olaya-Rodríguez , Simon Pahls , Kaitlyn Pereira , Pedro R Peres-Neto , Timothée Poisot , Laura J Pollock , Juan Carlos Rey-Velasco , Victor J Rincon-Parra , Claudia Roeoesli , François Rousseu , Lina María Sánchez-Clavijo , Meredith C Schuman , Oliver Selmoni , Jessica M da Silva , Erika Suarez-Valencia , Thilina D Surasinghe , Eren Turak , Luis Fernando Urbina , Sarah Valentin , Noah Wightman , Juan Zuloaga , Maria Cecilia Londoño , Andrew Gonzalez.
See contact details: https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf189
DOI reference:
BioScience, Volume 76, Issue 4, April 2026, Pages 345–358, https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaf189
- BON in a Box biaf189.pdf (3.54 MB)