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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Assessment of Ecosystem Services & Biodiversity
Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions Information Session Edmonton,
November 27, 2013 Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity
Monitoring Institute
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Early days Few people Lots of land & water Fewer
limits to growth 2
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Crop production Forage production Wood production Provisioning
Carbon storage CO 2 Pollination Water filtration & storage
Regulating Inspiration Recreation Cultural Abundant ecosystem
services
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Modern era More people Little unallocated land &
water More land uses 4
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Time to take stock Modern environmental challenges
Growing population Finite land base Multiple land uses Social
license to operate Engaged consumers 5
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Time to take stock Modern knowledge requirements
State-of-the-environment Changes over time Consistent across
Alberta Reliable 6
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute 7 Part of the Roadmap Assessment of ecosystem services
& biodiversity Information management Market design
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Reviewing our options Traditional approaches Static inventories
Limited field verification Proprietary Transformational systems
Dynamic monitoring systems Investment in new data Open access
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute ABMI Consistent since 2007 Core mandate is monitoring
Not-for-profit corporation Board includes govt & non-govt
Province-wide database of biodiversity data, development & land
cover Build on traditional inventory & monitoring approaches
Incorporate new technology 9
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute ABMI Application Centre Demonstrate relevance to
environmental management Information products from raw data
Identify & fill (some) gaps Dedicated business unit (2011)
Projects Oil sands monitoring Climate change adaptation Assessment
of ecosystem services & biodiversity Ecological recovery after
reclamation 10 Raw data Scientific knowledge Information
products
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Assessment of Ecosystem Services & Biodiversity Build
from biodiversity core Increase user base Leverage ABMI brand
Independent governance Credible science Open access mandate
Provincial scope 11
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute How we got here. 12 Province-wide environmental
monitoring system 2007 Policy support for market-based instruments
2008 2009 IAFE report on ecosystem service assessment 2010 Riparian
assessment protocols for ES Payments 2013 2012 Review of ecosystem
service assessment examples Economic evaluation of conservation
offsets 2011
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Project Goals 1.Map ecosystem services & biodiversity
Timber Forage Water purification Carbon Pollination Biodiversity
2.Demonstrate environmental management applications Stewardship
reporting Market-based instruments Regional / watershed planning
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Collaborators 14
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Mapping Albertas Ecosystem Services Carbon storage Water
purification Pollination Timber production Rangeland forage
production Biodiversity
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Example: Water Purification 1.Track water flow using DEM
2.Water picks up sediment based on landcover/ land-use 3.Track
sediment deposition 4.Determine important upslope source areas for
points of interest (e.g. cities, recreational lakes)
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Ecosystem Service Trade-offs Foley et al. 2005. Science
309:570
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ES provision for specific regions or industries Marketing of
natural resource products Ecosystem Service Scorecards Biodiversity
Timber Forage Water purification Carbon Pollination
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Link land management to changes in ES MBI`s - Conservation
Offsets
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Future ES provision under potential land-use policies Payment
for ecosystem services (PES) Conservation offsets Carbon tax/cap
& trade Scenario Modelling
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute Opportunity Improve Albertas environment by enabling new
ways to pay for conservation & reclamation Province-wide maps
of ecosystem services & biodiversity Open source models
(Mostly) publicly available inputs Beta release March 2014
Demonstrate applications to environmental management Stewardship
reporting Market-based instruments Regional / watershed planning
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Its Our Nature to Know Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring
Institute 22 Thank You Find us online at www.abmi.ca Images abmi.ca
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