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Record W4415991475 · doi:10.1111/2041-210x.70153

A nature‐positive world is more than the sum of its parts

2025· article· en· W4415991475 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Simon Ferrier

Bibliographic record

VenueMethods in Ecology and Evolution · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldEnvironmental Science
TopicLand Use and Ecosystem Services
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsBiodiversityFunction (biology)Measurement of biodiversityScale (ratio)Global biodiversityEcosystem servicesEcosystemComplement (music)

Abstract

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Abstract Adoption of the Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (KM‐GBF) has led to further growth in attention being directed to the challenge of bending the curve of biodiversity loss to achieve a nature‐positive world. However, concerns have been raised that, unless progress towards achieving net gain in biodiversity can be measured effectively at a whole‐system level, the term ‘nature‐positive’ risks becoming no more than a convenient label for any action intended to benefit nature. Biodiversity is complex, and initiatives promoting and informing the measurement of biodiversity change usually address this complexity by employing separate metrics to assess different biodiversity levels and entities, and different causal‐framework components (responses, pressures, state and benefits). As a consequence, assessing achievement of nature positive at a whole‐system level is challenged by the reality that these various components do not exist or function in isolation from one another but are instead connected and interact in a myriad of ways. More integrative biodiversity indicators can complement and add significant value to the use of simpler metrics by helping to account for: (i) major sources of non‐additivity in the way that biodiversity itself, and the consequences of actions impacting biodiversity, scale from local to whole‐system level as a function of compositional variation and ecological interactions within and between discrete biological entities (e.g. species and ecosystem types); and (ii) complexities in how multiple pressures (e.g. climate and land‐use change) and multiple management responses (e.g. protection and restoration) combine in shaping outcomes for biodiversity. Integrative indicators incorporating a predictive capability also offer considerable potential to more strongly couple monitoring of actions implemented under the KM‐GBF targets to monitoring of outcomes achieved under that framework's goals. In addition, these same indicators can more effectively link monitoring to planning of further actions, which can most effectively and efficiently advance progress towards bending the curve of biodiversity loss, across both public and private sectors.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.010
Threshold uncertainty score0.444

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.010
GPT teacher head0.318
Teacher spread0.308 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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