Author Correction: A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Authors and Affiliations

1. Department of Biology, Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   Andrew Gonzalez, Michael D. Catchen, Brian Leung & Laura J. Pollock

2. Finnish Environment Institute, Helsinki, Finland

   Petteri Vihervaara

3. Instituto de Investigaciones en Ecosistemas y Sustentabilidad (IIES), Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Morelia, Mexico

   Patricia Balvanera

4. Biology Department, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

   Amanda E. Bates

5. EcoCommons Australia, Research, Specialised and Data Foundations, Griffith University, Nathan, Queensland, Australia

   Elisa Bayraktarov

6. Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research, Lincoln, New Zealand

   Peter J. Bellingham

7. Institute of Microbiology, University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland, Mendrisio, Switzerland

   Andreas Bruder

8. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

   Jillian Campbell

9. Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, MN, USA

   Jeannine Cavender-Bares & Forest Isbell

10. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Halle, Germany

    Jonathan Chase, Nestor Fernandez, Carlos A. Guerra & Henrique Pereira

11. Department of Computer Sciences, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany

    Jonathan Chase & Nestor Fernandez

12. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Nicholas Coops

13. Faculty of Biosciences and Aquaculture, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway

    Mark J. Costello

14. Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (NINA), Trondheim, Norway

    Bálint Czúcz

15. Fondation for Research on Biodiversity (FRB), Paris, France

    Aurélie Delavaud

16. Centre for Biological Diversity, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK

    Maria Dornelas

17. Guia Marine Lab, MARE, Faculdade de Ciências da Universidade de Lisboa, Cascais, Portugal

    Maria Dornelas

18. Knowledge Centre for Biodiversity, Joint Research Centre of the European Commission, Ispra, Italy

    Grégoire Dubois

19. Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and MarineGEO program, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, USA

    Emmett J. Duffy

20. Belgian Science Policy Office, Belgian Biodiversity Platform/Biodiversa+, Brussels, Belgium

    Hilde Eggermont

21. German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (iDiv) Halle-Jena-Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Miguel Fernandez

22. Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Miguel Fernandez

23. CSIRO Environment, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia

    Simon Ferrier

24. NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

    Gary N. Geller & Fabian D. Schneider

25. NatureServe, Arlington, VA, USA

    Michael Gill

26. Département de biologie, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada

    Dominique Gravel

27. Department of Biology, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Carlos A. Guerra

28. Department of Natural History, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Robert Guralnick

29. Vizzuality, Madrid, Spain

    Michael Harfoot

30. Global Biodiversity Information Facility, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Tim Hirsch

31. The Center for Tree Science, The Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL, USA

    Sean Hoban

32. School of Biological Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China

    Alice C. Hughes

33. Paarl, South Africa

    Wim Hugo

34. US Geological Survey, Wetland & Aquatic Research Center, Sirenia Project, Gainesville, FL, USA

    Margaret E. Hunter

35. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

    Walter Jetz

36. Institute of Plant Science and Microbiology, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

    Norbert Juergens & Ute Schmiedel

37. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics (IBED), University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    W. Daniel Kissling

38. bioDISCOVERY, Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Cornelia B. Krug

39. Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), Nature Solutions Unit, Helsinki, Finland

    Peter Kullberg

40. Pôle national de données de biodiversité, PatriNat, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Station Marine de Concarneau, Concarneau, France

    Yvan Le Bras

41. Alexander von Humboldt Biological Resources Research Institute, Bogotá, Colombia

    Maria Cecilia Londoño-Murcia

42. The Group on Earth Observations Biodiversity Observation Network (GEO BON), Department of Biology, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Jean-Michel Lord, Katie L. Millette & Adriana Radulovici

43. Theoretical and Experimental Ecology Station, CNRS, Moulis, France

    Michel Loreau

44. Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA

    Amy Luers

45. Institute of Botany, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China

    Keping Ma

46. Australian Antarctic Division, Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water, Kingston, Tasmania, Australia

    Anna J. MacDonald

47. European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

    Joachim Maes

48. Securing Antarctica’s Environmental Future, Department of Environment and Genetics, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Melodie McGeoch

49. Centre d’Écologie et des Sciences de la Conservation (CESCO), Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Sorbonne Université, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, CP 135, Paris, France

    Jean Baptiste Mihoub

50. Centre for Ecological Research, Institute of Ecology and Botany, Vácrátót, Hungary

    Zsolt Molnar

51. Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies, Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, USA

    Enrique Montes

52. Ocean Chemistry and Ecosystems Division, Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Miami, Florida, USA

    Enrique Montes

53. Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Akira S. Mori

54. College of Marine Science, University of South Florida, St Petersburg, FL, USA

    Frank E. Muller-Karger

55. River Basin Research Center, Gifu University, Gifu, Japan

    Hiroyuki Muraoka

56. Biodiversity Division, National Institute for Environmental Studies, Tsukuba, Japan

    Hiroyuki Muraoka & Yayioi Takeuchi

57. Akkeshi Marine Station, Field Science Center for Northern Biosphere, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan

    Masahiro Nakaoka

58. Estación Biológica de Doñana (EBD-CSIC), Sevilla, Spain

    Laetitia Navarro

59. Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research, University College London, London, UK

    Tim Newbold

60. Senckenberg Biodiversity and Climate Research Institute, Frankfurt, Germany

    Aidin Niamir

61. CORDIO East Africa, Mombasa, Kenya

    David Obura

62. Biodiversity Research Centre and Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

    Mary O’Connor

63. ESRIN Largo Galileo Galilei, Frascati, Italy

    Marc Paganini

64. French Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (Ifremer), Lorient, France

    Dominique Pelletier

65. Institute of Biology, Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Halle (Saale), Germany

    Henrique Pereira

66. Département de Sciences Biologiques, Université de Montréal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

    Timothée Poisot

67. Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, London, UK

    Andy Purvis

68. Department of Life Sciences, Imperial College London, Ascot, UK

    Andy Purvis

69. Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Science, Università di Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Duccio Rocchini

70. Remote Sensing Laboratories, Department of Geography, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Claudia Roeoesli & Michael Schaepman

71. Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Studies, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Gabriela Schaepman-Strub

72. Laboratoire écologie fonctionnelle et environnement, Université de Toulouse, INPT, UPS, CNRS, Toulouse, France

    Dirk S. Schmeller

73. Wildlife Watch Group, Kathmandu, Nepal

    Mangal Man Shakya

74. Faculty of Geo-Information Science and Earth Observation (ITC), University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Andrew Skidmore

75. South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch National Botanical Gardens, Cape Town, South Africa

    Andrew L. Skowno

76. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

    Andrew L. Skowno

77. Thematic Center for Systematics and Biodiversity Informatics, Biodiversity Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

    Mao-Ning Tuanmu

78. NSW Department of Environment and Planning, Parramatta, New South Wales, Australia

    Eren Turak

79. Earth Science Division, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC, USA

    Woody Turner

80. Center of Biological Risk and Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

    Mark C. Urban

81. Facultad de Estudios Ambientales y Rurales, Departamento de Ecología y Territorio, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, Colombia

    Nicolás Urbina-Cardona

82. Division of Remote Sensing of Forests, Department of Forest Resource Management, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Umeå, Sweden

    Ruben Valbuena

83. Royal Belgian Institute for Naturalsciences, Brussels, Belgium

    Anton Van de Putte

84. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Anton Van de Putte

85. Environment and Climate Change Canada, Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

    Basile van Havre

86. Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland

    Vladimir Ruslan Wingate

87. NZ Department of Conservation, Christchurch, New Zealand

    Elaine Wright

88. Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

    Carlos Zambrana Torrelio

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Andrew Gonzalez.

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