Authors: Laikre, Linda;

Monitoring of genetic diversity to understand rates of change and identify potential threats to this vital part of biodiversity is becoming increasingly put into practice. Indicators for this level of diversity have recenlty been put forward both for international use within the context of the post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) as well as at national levels. These indicators are now being tested in several countries and an update of such efforts and their outcome will be provided in this presentation. One of the countries involved in this work is Sweden where long-term science-management collaborations have resulted in monitoring of genetic diversity now being increasingly included into national monitoring efforts, particularly in aquatic environments. Newly proposed indicators using genetic data are being applied to pilot species including several fishes and habitat forming species. Results from these ongoing efforts will be presented and discussed.