What is the Biodiversity domain?
The Biodiversity domain is Landler's suite of scientifically validated indicators and feature sets that help you measure, track, and report on biodiversity across your portfolio. Using remote sensing technology and advanced ecological models, this set of indicators and tools gives you a clear, data-driven view of how your natural capital interacts with biodiversity, from vegetation health to habitat protection, and much more.
The Biodiversity domain brings together multiple data layers and indicators into a unified view, making it easier to understand your biodiversity baseline, track changes over time, and communicate your impact to stakeholders.
Who is it for?
The Biodiversity domain is designed for organizations that need to understand, manage, and report on their biodiversity impacts:
Land managers and regenerative agriculture practitioners who need to track the ecological outcomes of their interventions and demonstrate habitat improvements to buyers and investors.
Corporate sustainability teams preparing for mandatory biodiversity disclosures under frameworks like TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures), CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive), and emerging biodiversity regulations.
Investors and asset managers conducting due diligence on land investments, assessing biodiversity risks, and monitoring portfolio-level nature performance for impact reporting.
Supply chain and procurement teams evaluating supplier biodiversity practices, identifying sourcing risks, and working toward nature-positive supply chains.
Conservation project developers measuring baseline conditions, tracking habitat restoration outcomes, and generating credible evidence for biodiversity credits or other forms of conservation finance.
Indicators Available for Measurement
Deforestation
Detect forest loss across your portfolio. Whether you're managing supply chains in forest-risk commodities or tracking restoration commitments, Landler helps you to identify deforestation events.
Ecosystem Integrity Index (EII)
The Ecosystem Integrity Index (EII) provides a single, comparable score of overall ecosystem health for each plot or portfolio. It combines multiple dimensions of environmental performance into a 0–1 index, where higher values indicate more intact, resilient ecosystems.
EII helps you quickly understand how close a site is to its potential “natural” condition, accounting for both current land use and surrounding landscape pressures. Use this indicator to compare plots against one another, track changes over time, and prioritise where conservation, restoration, or regenerative management can deliver the greatest gains for nature and long-term natural capital value.
Natural Habitat
Quantify the amount of natural or semi-natural habitat within your plot boundaries. This indicator reveals how much of your portfolio supports land set aside for non-productive use, where plant and animal species can thrive.
Protected Areas in Vicinity (available in Landscape View)
Measures the proximity of your plots to legally designated or internationally recognised protected areas (for example, national parks, nature reserves, or Key Biodiversity Areas). This indicator helps you understand how your land relates to nearby conservation priorities, assess potential pressures on protected ecosystems, and demonstrate that operations or investments are aligned with “no significant harm” and nature-positive goals at the landscape scale.
Species Occurrence
Provides information on the occurrence records of plant and animal species observations within a specific geographic area. All species observation records that are stored in the data archives of the global biodiversity information facility (GBIF) are visualized on an interactive map.
Threatened Species Presence (available in Landscape View)
Shows whether your plots sit within the known range or habitat of threatened species as classified by the IUCN Red List. This indicator helps you identify sites where land use or management decisions may have a higher impact on species at risk, and where conservation or restoration actions can deliver disproportionate biodiversity benefits.
Vegetation Condition
Track the health and density of vegetation across your plots using the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). This helps you identify areas of healthy growth, stress, or degradation—essential for understanding habitat quality and ecosystem function.
For more indicators available on demand, see the Indicator Library.
Available Features
Domain Summary
The Biodiversity domain summary provides a high-level overview of your biodiversity performance at the portfolio level. This quick snapshot synthesizes scientific measurements into a clear, easy to understand narrative so you can take action faster and invest where it counts.
Va Recommendations
Get tailored biodiversity guidance that fit your goals. Landler’s AI-powered virtual assistant, Va, surfaces insights based on your current indicators and trends, highlighting where biodiversity risks are emerging and where there is untapped potential for improvement. Use these recommendations to prioritise actions, refine interventions, and focus your efforts on the plots and habitats that matter most for impact and compliance.
One-Click Reporting
Turn complex biodiversity data into stakeholder-ready outputs in seconds. The Biodiversity domain report automatically compiles your key indicators, performance trends, and contextual insights into clear, structured PDF reports to share with internal or external partners.
Landscape View
View your plots in the context of the wider ecosystem. The Landscape View enables you to see a unique sub-set of biodiversity indicators within a configurable radius of 5–30 km. Toggle the Landscape View on to assess Threatened Species Presence and Protected Areas around your site, and understand how the performance of your portfolio relates to the broader surroundings. This view is ideal for coordinating with local land management authorities, demonstrating no net-negative impacts on biodiversity, and other nature restoration goals at the landscape level.
Use Cases
TNFD Disclosure Preparation
Challenge: Your organization needs to assess biodiversity dependencies and impacts for TNFD reporting, but lacks baseline data across a geographically dispersed portfolio.
Solution: Use Landler’s Biodiversity domain to generate standardized biodiversity assessments across your portfolio. Track natural habitats, vegetation condition, and deforestation across diverse locations, and export this data to support your disclosures with scientifically validated evidence.
Verify Impacts of Regenerative Agriculture
Challenge: You've implemented regenerative practices on farmland and need to prove to customers or investors that these interventions are improving biodiversity outcomes.
Solution: Establish a baseline using Landler’s Biodiversity domain before your intervention begins. Track changes over time to demonstrate measurable improvements in vegetation health and natural habitats. Download and share a domain report to tell a compelling story backed by verifiable data.
Supply Chain Risk Assessment
Challenge: Your procurement team sources agricultural commodities from multiple regions and needs to identify which suppliers pose the greatest biodiversity risk, particularly to deforestation exposure.
Solution: Map your supplier plots on Landler and use deforestation monitoring to flag any forest loss events since 2020. Compare the level of natural habitats available across suppliers to identify those operating in high-risk areas or contributing to habitat conversion. Make informed sourcing decisions based on real biodiversity data.
Tracking Habitat Restoration Progress
Challenge: Your organization has committed to restoring an area of degraded land into more hospitable habitats, and you need to report quarterly progress to stakeholders.
Solution: Landler will help you to monitor the changes to this land at regular intervals. Compare current conditions against your baseline, generating clear evidence of habitat recovery. Share viewer access with project partners and funders so they can track progress transparently.
Frequently Asked Questions
What data sources power the Biodiversity domain?
The Biodiversity uses satellite imagery, remote sensing technology, and validated ecological models to generate indicators. NDVI is derived from multispectral satellite data (Sentinel-2 and Landsat), while the Natural Habitat and Deforestation indicators use global land cover datasets, forest loss data (such as Hansen Global Forest Change), and machine learning classification models.
Is Biodiversity monitoring suitable for small plots?
Yes, though indicator reliability depends on plot size and satellite resolution. NDVI and vegetation analysis work well for plots as small as 1 hectare. For very small plots (under 0.5 hectares), we recommend supplementing remote sensing data with ground-truth field measurements — explore these possibilities in the Indicator Library.
Does Biodiversity monitoring replace field-based assessments?
No. Remote monitoring provides scalable, consistent baseline data across large portfolios, which is challenging to achieve with field surveys alone. However, for high-resolution biodiversity assessments (such as species inventories or detailed ecological surveys), field work remains essential. Landler complements field assessments by providing continuous monitoring and portfolio-scale contextual data.
Can I use this data for biodiversity credit generation?
Biodiversity monitoring can provide the measurement foundation for biodiversity credit projects and other forms of conservation finance, but credit eligibility depends on the specific standard or methodology you're following (e.g., Biodiversity Credit Alliance, Verra, or regional frameworks). The data on Landler can support baseline assessments, additionality claims, and ongoing monitoring required by many biodiversity credit schemes. For more information, speak to our team.
What biodiversity frameworks and regulations does this support?
The Biodiversity domain on Landler helps organizations prepare for:
- TNFD (Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures)
- CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) nature-related disclosures
- EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) compliance
- Science Based Targets for Nature (SBTN) assessments
- Voluntary biodiversity reporting frameworks
- and more.
The indicators provide credible, scientifically validated data that can feed into these disclosure processes, though you may need additional context or supplementary data to meet specific requirements.
Can I combine Landler's biodiversity data with my own field measurements?
Yes. Talk to our team about how to import your own biodiversity data—such as species surveys, eDNA results, camera trap observations, or bioacoustics recordings—and view it alongside Landler's remote sensing indicators for a comprehensive view of your biodiversity in your portfolio.
How do I track biodiversity in the landscape surrounding my plots?
Use the Landscape View to analyze biodiversity indicators within a customizable radius (5-30km) around your plots. This helps you understand your land in its ecological context, identify nearby protected areas or biodiversity hotspots, and assess landscape-level risks.
Getting Started
Ready to start monitoring biodiversity across your portfolio? Follow this guide to access and use the Biodiversity domain effectively.
1. Access Your Biodiversity Data
For your portfolio as a whole:
- From your Landler dashboard, click the Biodiversity domain tab in the lefthand navigation under “Measurements”
- The domain summary appears at the top of the Biodiversity page and provides a simple narrative describing the biodiversity performance of your portfolio. Read this summary first to understand your high-level biodiversity performance before diving into individual indicators on the rest of the page.
- See Va on the righthand sidebar for:
- AI-generated insights about vegetation health, natural habitats, and deforestation events
- Alerts for any biodiversity risks detected across your portfolio
- A prompt to generate an automated Biodiversity domain report
For a single plot:
- From your Landler dashboard, click the Plots tab in the lefthand navigation under “Home”
- Select a specific plot to explore from the list
- Scroll down the page to see biodiversity measurements at the plot level
For a group of plots in your portfolio:
- From your Landler dashboard, click the Groups tab in the lefthand navigation under “Home”
- Select the group that you’d like to view
- Select Land Monitoring under the map to see a tile snapshot of your Biodiversity domain, which is a reflection of your Natural Habitat measurement
2. Toggle the Landscape View for Context
- Open any plot page
- Toggle the Landscape View to “On” above the map
- Adjust the radius (5-km to 30-km) to analyze the surrounding ecosystem
- Choose a map overlay to view the proximity to protected areas and threatened species in the area
- Scroll down to see graphs and data summaries about protected areas and threatened species in the area
3. Generate Reports and Share Data
- From your Landler dashboard, click the Reports tab in the lefthand navigation under
- If it is your first time downloading a Biodiversity domain report, click the “Generate Biodiversity Report” button and refresh the page after 1 min
- Click the download button on the Biodiversity report widget to export a PDF
