Published: 5 September 2007
With global biodiversity increasingly at risk, a mechanism like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is required to monitor the situation, argues Michel Loreau, Canada Research Chair in Theoretical Ecology at ÎÛÎÛ²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ and co-chair of the international steering committee of the International Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on Biodiversity (IMoSEB).