Biodiversity is complex, and so is the landscape doing research, taking care of the policy - and the interface in between.
The attached figure, not included in the White Paper, gives an overview of the MAJOR players in the field- to exemplify which different needs and interests need to be addressed when designing a Network of Knowledge to bring them all together... feel free to comment.
Carsten

The overview of major players is very top heavy and dense in the middle, while biology functions at the local level, even small scale than nations etc.

Without balancing the small scale incidence and function of species communities and ecosystems, and also including practitioners, policy making at the global and mid-levels will be skewed to economic drivers, aka global corporations and financial markets.

We see the negative effects of this imbalance today, recorded not only in the scientific literature but also in development and economics journals.

Have you talked with Katy Borner at Indiana U?

"function of species, communities and ecosystems" (Kathryn Papp):
Actually, I think this is an essential point in bringing biodiversity issues into the people's mind!
If we can find a way to make people (anyboy, including stakeholders, land-owners, policy-makers, ...) aware of the functions of species and their interactions within communities, along with ecosystem heterogeneity, in shaping ecosystem services, we will be close to having found the solution to biodiversity conservation!