- Can we make a "Biodiverssity Scorecard" for each MBON region, or any AOI?
- This would include:
- What are the most important species/group?
- Are there particularly important commercial species, keystone species or other species that can act as a bellweather for the system?
- Is there enough data about these species to properly assess the state of the system?
- How are these species/goups doing? Can we describe status and trends?
- Alternatively, we could focus on trophic level
- Can we identify trends in BD indeces like richness?
- Can we come up with an index to describe the state of the system?
- This would be based on a series of metrics:
- Can we fold in environmental data or demographic trends (SST - warming; SLR; Tourism; Fishing/Development pressures; others)