Improved access to integrated biodiversity data for science , practice , and policy-the European Biodiversity Observation Network ( EU BON )

Biodiversity is threatened on a global scale and the losses are ongoing. In order to stop further losses and maintain important ecosystem services, programmes have been put into place to reduce and ideally halt these processes. A whole suite of different approaches is needed to meet these goals. One major scientific Nature Conservation 6: 49–65 (2014) doi: 10.3897/natureconservation.6.6498 http://www.pensoft.net/natureconservation Copyright Anke Hoffmann et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. RESEARCH ARTICLE Launched to accelerate biodiversity conservation A peer-reviewed open-access journal

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