Offsetting policies must develop plausible counterfactual scenarios a difficult task in a volatile regulatory context and allocate offsets according to spatially-explicit counterfactual biodiversity losses and gains.
Chaudhary, A., Pfister, S. & Hellweg, S. Spatially explicit analysis of biodiversity loss due to global agriculture, pasture and forest land use from a producer and consumer perspective.
The USCOP report said, "One of the central goals for ecosystem-based management should be the explicit consideration of biodiversity on species, genetic, and ecosystem levels.[I]t is now understood that every species makes some contribution to the structure and function of its ecosystem.
DNA barcoding and other DNA sequence-based techniques for investigating and estimating biodiversity require explicit methods for associating individual sequences with taxa, as it is at the taxon level that biodiversity is assessed.
Three other impediments to assembling existing data and collecting new data on marine biodiversity were explicit or implicit in all sections: logistical problems, shortages in finances, and shortages in taxonomic expertise.
These factors can be managed to some extent through sound offset policy design that incorporates active adaptive management, time discounting, explicit accounting for uncertainty, and biodiversity banking.
Even though the protection of biodiversity is the explicit goal of conservation biology, the concept of biodiversity has proved notoriously difficult to define (see the entry on biodiversity).
(Because the representation and adequate management of biodiversity is an explicit goal of conservation planning, operationalization of "biodiversity" is a necessity and not a luxury motivated by some recondite philosophical agenda).
