v2.0.0

This version of the Indicator Guidance Documentation is based on a review of the guidance documentation made by Dr. Sean Hoban, Dr. Brenna Forester, Dr. Alicia Mastretta-Yanes, Emma Leavens, and Austin Koontz. In the Spring of 2025, we identified areas in the documentation requiring clarification, citations, or grammatical edits. Most of these updates were implemented by @akoontz11.

Many minor points were updated, but as a broad summary of changes:

• Added GONE as a historical Ne estimator to not use for indicator calculation
• Updates to the description of metapopulations
• Adding a note about the difference between denominators, in the Equations section
• Linking citations, as well the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework text

Guideline materials and documentation for the Genetic Diversity Indicators of the monitoring framework for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework

In December 2022, 196 Parties to the CBD adopted the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF) and with it the Ne 500 and Populations Maintained indicators as headline and complementary indicators, respectively,  in the accompanying global monitoring framework (Annex 1 of CBD/COP/DEC/15/5).

The following guideline materials are intended to assist nations in quantifying genetic indicator values at every stage of the process: from species selection to data compilation to indicator calculation. The materials are based on the co-creation experience of the first pilot multinational assessment of the genetic diversity indicators, and will be regularly kept updated through a versioning system as more teams share their experience.

The first release was submitted to Biodiversity Informatics as "Training module" and presented at the 16 April 2024 CBD Webinar on the guidance from the AHTEG on indicatros for the GBF.