As a contribution to the International Year of Biodiversity, on 13-14 January 2010, the Royal Society hosted a two-day InterAcademy Panel (IAP) conference on ‘Integrating ecosystem services into biodiversity management’ as part of the IAP General Assembly. The conference was attended by representatives of around 100 of the world’s science academies along with other science and policy experts. The participants of the conference produced a communiqué including conclusions and recommendations of the conference.
