Program for Planned Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research

The Program for Planned Biodiversity and Ecosystem Research in Australasia is an ecological initiative to facilitate long-term regional biodiversity monitoring and condition assessment. It is a universal meso-scale, multidisciplinary program designed for cost-effective and efficient ecological research and data collection. It provides a new model for biodiversity research, monitoring and assessment that can be replicated throughout Australasia, providing an innovative foundation for enhancing environmental management and monitoring of the impacts climate change in the future.

PPBio is being implemented in Australia by Associate Professor Jean-Marc Hero and the PPBio team from the Environmental Futures Centre at Griffith University.

The impetus for the development of the PPBio program came from the Brazilian Ministry of Science and Technology, resulting in the establishment of the Program for Planned Biodiversity, Brazil.