In addition, internationally comparable data on indirect drivers are not always available for all countries and regions of the Americas being particularly limited for small economies - lack of a capacity to collect, handle, and process repeated, frequent observations of aquatic and nearby wetland resources

Significant knowledge gaps of invasive species in the Americas exist

Consumer products - Personal-care products - Multitude of (partially unknown) effects).

Scaling up from ecological studies to the biome level.

Making all biodiversity data available online, and the production of standardized biodiversity data useful for policymakers

Basic exploration is incomplete, especially in the richest biodiversity areas. [...]In South America experts predict that around 50 per cent of marine biodiversity remains undiscovered [...] functions across taxonomic groups is growing but remains scarce in some subregions.

Two major challenges for the future in the Americas are to standardize information and to make it available in a template that is usable by decision makers.

Studies linking biodiversity and other less tangible kinds of NCP are incipient

A major gap in our understanding, perhaps with the exception of carbon storage, are links between biodiversity and ecosystem services or NCP at large spatial scale

The density of georeferenced data varies widely among subregions - The South American subregion lags behind, but important efforts are getting underway.