Transcript WP7 - European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy

WP7
APPLYING TAXONOMY TO
CONSERVATION
State Museum of Natural History,
Stuttgart (SMNS)
Christoph Häuser & Klaus Riede
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Table of contents
1- WP7 goals and objectives
2- WP7 workplan – activities and
deliverables
3- WP7 ATBI+M operations
4- WP7 site selection: workshop results
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Introduction
The Challenge: Shortage of comprehensive (scientific) information
for biodiversity conservation:
– unknown dimensions of species/taxa still undiscovered (5 to
>100 mio spp.??)
– no global biodiversity catalogue / register at hand !
– no complete national fauna or flora available for many / most
countries!
– no complete biodiversity inventory available yet for any
protected area in the World !!
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The Challenge
No complete biodiversity inventory available yet for any
protected area in the World !!
Species
details:
„No details are currently available for any species. If you know of a species which
exists in this protected area please complete the comment form.“
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The Background
ATBIs - All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories
• ...attempting to record and document the entire
biodiversity occurring at a specific site or area.
• Where ATBIs have been undertaken at some depth, they have
considerably increased the knowledge of the biodiversity of
the area, frequently including the discovery of
• dozens of new species or
• hundreds of species previously unknown to
the region
Example: ATBI in
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
http://www.dlia.org/atbi/index.shtml
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Objectives
Strengthening the input of taxonomic expertise in Europe for
biodiversity conservation programmes and policies, especially for inventories,
assessments, and monitoring of biodiversity.
Integrating user needs for taxonomic expertise from the conservation
management side with research agendas for biosystematics and biogeography
from leading European centres of excellence.
Further development and promotion of standards, techniques and
methodologies for state of the art and cost efficient biodiversity assessments
including a new approach for an
"All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory & Monitoring" (ATBI+M) programme.
Establish a European expert task force for undertaking and supporting
biodiversity inventories, assessments, and monitoring activities.
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WP7 Activities
[7.1] Assessing biodiversity inventory and monitoring needs, evaluating
relevant taxonomic capacities, and raising stakeholder awareness
[7.2] Mobilising taxonomic resources and establishing the ATBI+M task
force network
[7.3] Developing standards, protocols, and tools for conducting an
ATBI+M programme
[7.4] Operating the ATBI+M task force and evaluating relevant methods
and techniques
[7.5] Sustaining the European ATBI+M task force and long term study sites
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Milestones and Deliverables
Assessments:
Needs for (taxonomic expertise for) biodiversity inventory and monitoring,
particularly for selected areas of conservation concern across Europe
Agreements:
for operation of ATBI+M pilot sites (including management and sharing of
data)
- for participation in ATBI+M task force (assessment teams)
Outputs:
ATBI+M task force established
Inventory data for European ATBI+M sites available (M18, ongoing)
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Operations [M1-18]
Select and establish first ATBI+M pilot sites:
A first workshop was held at SMNS, 22-25 May 2006
Mobilize taxonomic expertise:
Expressions of interest from taxonomists willing to participate in ATBI activities are
available from Questionnaires distributed at the SMNS workshop. To establish the
ATBI+M task force, input from the WP2 expert basis will be needed
Standardise protocols for (field) data capture and web publication:
Methods and tools for taxa inventories and monitoring have to be reviewed,
standardised and promoted. A workshop on “Methods and Protocols for Field data
Capture will be held around M11.
Taxa Inventories will be published by a robust mySQL database, accessible through
GBIF (in cooperation with WP5s “Internetplatform for cybertaxonomy”).
Outreach: Promote EDIT ATBI+M approach to conservation community:
Mobilisation of additional funds will be needed for full All Taxa Inventories and Monitoring
for conservation and the 2010 targets.
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Establishing Pilot sites
Call for Site Proposals from EDIT partners: 22 (16)
proposals for Europe (and appr. 25 for Overseas sites)
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Establishing Pilot sites
22 proposals for Europe were entered into a GIS database
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Establishing Pilot Sites: Workshop
Sites and Criteria were discussed during a workshop in Stuttgart.
Our pilot trip plans
• 40 participants from 14 countries.
• Results were published on CD, distributed among all EDIT Team Leaders
• Feedback by questionnaires (Ranking: 6-1)
• Database established for ranking, comments and taxonomic expertise
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Selection of Pilot Sites: Criteria
Relevance for conservation
Available information on fauna
flora trip plans
Our&pilot
state of the art of inventories, on-going monitoring
Ecosystem
representative of a region, heterogeneous,
threatened habitats and species, pristine
Logistics and Feasibility
Accessibility
Infrastructure (field station, accommodation, transport)
Support through counterparts and local hosts, including staff
Site administration interested to host ATBI (for long term)
Interest to seek additional funding for ATBI
Complementary data of the non-living world: existing (GIS) data on
meteorology, soil, geology, topography
future data collection assured
Potential Regional Network
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Pilot Sites: other considerations
Based on criteria and feedback
from EDIT
partners, we plan to select
Our pilot
trip plans
4 European sites
for the first phase (M1-18). Further sites can be added in the future (open,
dynamic list).
This selection has to be balanced geographically (incl. Eastern Europe)
and taxonomically, reflecting interests and capacities of EDIT partners.
Some sites are already running complementary activities, and EDIT might
bestow a label, without investing much resources.
Several sites have considerable potential for outreach.
Other sites will not have any ATBI activity unless EDIT will take charge.
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Proposed European pilot sites
Feedback/Rating
by partners
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Points
Sitename
Outreach
Our pilot trip plans
Complement
83
Pelister-Presper area, Ochrid-Lake
NO
NO
83
Borjomi-Kharagauli National Park
NO
NO
82
Mercantour National Park
YES
NO
61
Monte Perdido (France/Spain)
NO
NO
49
Gemer Area: Slovensky Kras NP
NO
NO
41
Sesvenna Area
NO
NO
36
Bialowieza National Park
YES
YES
30
El Ventorillo
YES
YES
29
Spessart
YES
YES
29
Danube floodplain (Szigetköz)
NO
YES
21
Caldera de Taburiente
NO
YES
20
Somiedo
NO
NO
17
Bieszcady
NO
NO
13
Münsinger Hart
YES
YES
12
Clare Island
YES
YES
10
Vértes Mountain
NO
NO
13
NP Oosterschelde/Outer Delta Sea Reserve
YES
YES
9
Downe House
YES
YES
6
Tyresta National Park
YES
YES
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Next steps and perspectives
Besides pilot visits and negotiations with European sites
we need to organise and mobilise
the
(EDIT)
Our pilot
trip
planstaxonomic community!
We plan additional workshops on:
- Methodology (sampling protocols, data capture & exchange)
(Winter 06/07)
- Overseas sites (early 2007)
We will install a prototype database before the end of 2006, which will
be improved in cooperation with users and WP5 staff
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Thank you
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