National Biodiversity Future Center - NBFC

The National Biodiversity Future Centre (NBFC) aims at harmonizing the current marine-coastal biodiversity knowledge, integrating it in databases and adopting, promoting, and making prevalent the use of the most cost/effective new/emerging monitoring methodologies and technologies. NBFC has the ambitious goal to implement a National (Marine) Biodiversity Observatory System reviewing the marine monitoring in Italy (what is done, where, and by how, how much it costs, redundancies and major gaps) and collecting data from institutional national/international programs, literature, public marine data portals, and citizen science.