Abstract Oceanographers have an increasing responsibility to ensure that the outcomes of scientific research are conveyed to the policy-making sphere to achieve conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity. Zooplankton monitoring projects have helped to increase our understanding of the processes by which marine ecosystems respond to climate change and other environmental variations, ranging from regional to global scales, and its scientific value is recognized in the contexts of fisheries, biodiversity and global change studies. Nevertheless, zooplankton data have rarely been used at policy level for conservation and management of marine ecosystems services. One way that this can be pragmatically and effectively achieved is via the development of zooplankton indicators, which could for instance contribute to filling in gaps in the suite of global indicators to track progress against the Aichi Biodiversity Targets of the United Nations Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2010–2020. This article begins by highlighting how under-represented the marine realm is within the current suite of global Aichi Target indicators. We then examine the potential to develop global indicators for relevant Aichi Targets, using existing zooplankton monitoring data, to address global biodiversity conservation challenges.

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浮游动物监测有助于应对全球生物多样性保护挑战

摘要 海洋学家肩负着越来越多的责任，以确保将科学研究成果传达给决策领域，以实现海洋生物多样性的保护和可持续利用。浮游动物监测项目帮助我们加深了对海洋生态系统对气候变化和其他环境变化（从区域到全球尺度）的反应过程的理解，其科学价值在渔业、生物多样性和全球变化研究的背景下得到认可。然而，浮游动物数据很少用于海洋生态系统服务保护和管理的政策层面。一种切实有效地实现这一目标的方法是通过制定浮游动物指标，例如，这可能有助于填补一套全球指标中的空白，以跟踪联合国 2010-2020 年生物多样性战略计划爱知生物多样性目标的进展情况。本文首先强调海洋领域在当前全球爱知目标指标套件中的代表性不足。然后，我们利用现有的浮游动物监测数据，研究为相关爱知目标制定全球指标的潜力，以应对全球生物多样性保护挑战。