BILBI indicators portal

Brief description

The BILBI indicators portal is an interface where users can explore CSIRO's biodiversity indicators for any signatory countries of the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), plus USA. CSIRO’s global biodiversity indicators (BHI, BERI and PARC) enable governments and organisations to plan and track progress towards biodiversity goals. These indicators are all recognised as component indicators in the CBD Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework and provide high-resolution coverage of a large proportion of Earth’s biodiversity across the entire land surface of the planet.

The Biodiversity Habitat Index (BHI) represents the proportion of biodiversity retained within a given area (such as a country or an ecoregion) in relation to the degree of habitat loss, degradation and fragmentation experienced.

The Bioclimatic Ecosystem Resilience Index (BERI) measures the capacity of landscapes to retain species diversity in the face of climate change, as a function of the area, connectivity and integrity of natural ecosystems across those landscapes.

The Protected Area Representativeness and Connectedness Indices (PARC) represent the diversity of biological communities within a protected area system, as well as how connected protected areas are within the broader landscape.

This portal provides a country-level overview of CSIRO's biodiversity indices with a link to download indicator values for countries as well as biomes within countries. More information can be found at https://research.csiro.au/macroecologicalmodelling/bilbi .
Lineage: There are 3 indicators available via this interface: BHI, BERI, and PARC. All of these indicators are derived using CSIRO's BILBI biodiversity modeling infrastructure (Biogeographic modelling Infrastructure for Large-scale Biodiversity Indicators). BILBI operates on a global 30-second grid and integrates terrain-adjusted climate data from WorldClim (www.WorldClim.org, v1) and soil data from SoilGrids (www.SoilGrids.org, v1), alongside biodiversity records for more than 400,000 plant, vertebrate and invertebrate species from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). Spatial biodiversity models are generated using generalized dissimilarity modelling for each WWF biome/realm combination.

For BHI and BERI, habitat condition is assessed using downscaled Land Use Harmonisation surfaces, which combine land cover data from the ESA Land Cover Climate Change Initiative (www.esa-landcover-cci.org/) and coefficients from the PREDICTS database (www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/our-work/biodiversity/predicts.html).

The PARC-representativeness Indicator additionally incorporates protected area data from the World Database on Protected Areas (www.iucn.org/theme/protected-areas/our-work/world-database-protected-areas).