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The Biosphere Integrity Metric (BIM)

How healthy is our planet’s life support system? Shockingly, we lack a clear, real-time indicator. Current measures often tell us about extinctions after they happen. We need a “check engine” light for the biosphere. Our proposed Biosphere Integrity Metric (BIM) aims to be just that. It measures the flow of energy through life’s web and how human activities disrupt it. As a first step, we are developing a Satellite-Derived Primary Production Pressure Index (SPPPI) using global satellite data. This proxy metric will provide an urgently needed early warning of human pressure on the base of the food web. While not the full picture, it is a vital start. Read on to learn how this metric works and why developing the full BIM, integrating ground truth data, is our ultimate goal.

Biosphere Integrity Metric (BIM)

Measuring Biosphere Health – From Satellite Proxy to Full Metric The Importance: Humanity urgently needs reliable ways to measure the health and stability of the global biosphere. Existing me…

GarryRogers Nature Conservation

Teresita Porter 🙋🏻‍♀️Oct 25, 2024

**Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe**

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-024-02511-8

"positive association between the richness of Acidobacteria, Firmicutes and Proteobacteria and primary productivity"

"primary productivity in croplands and grasslands was positively related to nitrogen-fixing bacteria and mycorrhizal fungi and negatively related to plant pathogens"

#SoilHealth #PrimaryProductivity

Soil health is associated with higher primary productivity across Europe - Nature Ecology & Evolution

Geographic patterns in plant growth are probably influenced by soil abiotic and biotic conditions. Here, the authors assess the relationship of a composite soil health index to primary productivity and the underlying environmental predictors across major land-use types in Europe.

Nature