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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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[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
WP7 Activities
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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 establishedInventory data for European ATBI+M sites available (M18, ongoing)
Milestones and Deliverables
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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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Call for Site Proposals from EDIT partners: 22 (16)
proposals for Europe (and appr. 25 for Overseas sites)
Establishing Pilot sites
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22 proposals for Europe were entered into a GIS database
Establishing Pilot sites
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Our pilot trip plans
Establishing Pilot Sites: Workshop
Sites and Criteria were discussed during a workshop in Stuttgart.
• 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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Our pilot trip plans
Selection of Pilot Sites: Criteria
Relevance for conservationAvailable information on fauna & flora
state of the art of inventories, on-going monitoringEcosystem
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 staffSite administration interested to host ATBI (for long term)
Interest to seek additional funding for ATBIComplementary data of the non-living world: existing (GIS) data on
meteorology, soil, geology, topographyfuture data collection assured
Potential Regional Network
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Our pilot trip plans
Pilot Sites: other considerations
Based on criteria and feedback from EDIT partners, we plan to select 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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Our pilot trip plans
Proposed European pilot sites
Feedback/Rating by partners
Points Sitename Outreach 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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Our pilot trip plans
Next steps and perspectives
Besides pilot visits and negotiations with European sites we need to organise and mobilise the (EDIT) taxonomic 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