Study and monitoring of biodiversity in France: Feedbacks on special efforts gathering Research and Policy communities.

In 2024, the French biodiversity data hub - PNDB (biodiversity arm of Data Terra research infrastructure), the Policy biodiversity information system -SIB, the French GBIF node and the Biodiversa+ project team from the French biodiversity agency (OFB) organized a 3-day seminar on the theme of biodiversity monitoring at the interface of research and public policies. More than thirty participants involved in all aspects of biodiversity monitoring at different scales and using various methods and protocols were brought together as members of the French biodiversity community.The objectives of the seminar were to facilitate scientific and technical exchanges (workshops, training and plenary sessions) between the research and public policy communities, to raise awareness of needs and expectations in terms of shared networks, to provide best practices, particularly in terms of biodiversity data management, curation and analysis, and to communicate and inform about the French BON and its future developments.Actions have been identified for a common framework bridging the gap between Research and Public Policies, from raw data to indicators: 1) Map out the skills and willingness at the national level to address the "who's doing what" ; 2) Create a mailing list for the community ; 3) List current projects, tools (Virtual research environment, biodiversity monitoring frameworks) and networks from French research and biodiversity policies communities and links with international related initiatives; 4) Broaden the scope and move beyond the focus on occurrence data (strengthen the AI, satellite and genetic dimensions, and integrate these communities) ; 5) Explore the functioning of other networks such as the Knowledge-Action hub of the One Health community or the French Barcode of Life node ; 6) Beware of the voluntary nature of the network, and avoid redundancy with currently existing initiatives.