Freshwater  Animal  Diversity  Assessment  (FADA)  

Part  2:  Database  statusAaike  De  Wever,  Koen  Martens

FADA-­database:  status  early 2010

• FADA-­book  published  in  2008  providing  complete  overview  of  the  freshwater  animal  diversity

• Wide  expert  network• Plans  for  database  and  joint  analyses  discussed  during  meeting  in  2008

• Nevertheless,  the  number  of  checklists  available  was  rather  limited

The  BioFresh project  (2010-­2014)

Biodiversity  of  Freshwater  Ecosystems:  Status,  Trends,  Pressures,  and  

Conservation  Priorities

EU  FP7  project,  18  partner  institutions

http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/

© nasaimages.org

Key  goals  of  BioFresh

Improve  capacity   to  protect  and  manage   freshwater  biodiversity   in  the  face  of  global  change

– Build  a  freshwater  biodiversity  information  platformData  portal  and  metadatabase:  data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu

– Predict  freshwater  biodiversity  responses  to  multiple  stressors(modeling),  disseminate  results  through  scientific  publications  and  other  means

– Improve  awareness  on  freshwater  biodiversity  status,  trends,  conservation,from  biofreshblog.com to  policy  briefs

FADA-­checklist  work  during  BioFresh

• Ensured  the  publication  of  data  on  8  groups,  increasing  the  number  of  available   lists  from  5  to  13  during  the  first  year

• Major  effort  for  integrating  the  World  Trichoptera Checklist• Exchange  of  data  with  GBIF  and  Catalogue  of  Life

Exchange  of  FADA  data  with  Catalogue  of  Life

http://fada.biodiversity.be/

Moving  the  FADA-­database   forward

• The  “easy  ones”  had  been  done• We  experienced   the  amount  of  work  that  goes  into  this……  but  could  not  fully  justify  to  do  it  all  on  BioFresh

• Project  and  workshop  sponsored  by  BioFresh,  RBINS  and  VLIZ  to  mobilise  new  data,  esp.  for  macroinvertebrate groups  – 2013  workshop

• Collaboration  with  VLIZ  to  exchange  data  between  FADA  and  WoRMS – AquaRES project

Integration  recently  completed  and  pending:  insect  groups  (1/2)

• Coleoptera – approached  specialists   for  families  and  received  species   lists  for  14k  species  – Amphizoidae,  Aspidytidae,  Paelobiidae (Anders  Nilsson)  -­ 50  names– Chrysomeliidae (Elisabeth  Geiser)  -­ 170  species  – Dytiscidae (Anders  Nilsson)  -­ 6400  names  – Gyrinidae (Paolo  Mazzoldi)  -­ 1192  names  – Haliplidae (Bernard  van  Vondel)  -­ 384  names  – Hydraenidae (JächManfred)  -­ 4090  names  – Noteridae (Anders  Nilsson)  -­ 420  names  – Psephenidae (JächManfred)  -­ 380  names  – Scirtidae (Rafal Ruta &  Hiroyuki  Yoshitomi)  -­ 1400  names

• Coleoptera – fortcoming lists– Elmidae (Jäch Manfred  et  al.)  -­ 1000  names  – Hydrophiloidae (Marek Przewozny,  Martin  Fikacek and  Andrew  Short)  – 4000  names

Integration  recently  completed  and  pending:  insect  groups  (2/2)

• Diptera – received   lists  for  17k  species– Culicidae (Pollie Rueda)  -­ 3500  names  – Chironomidae:  Tanytarsiini (Gilka Wojciech)  -­ 252  names  – Simuliidae (Peter  Adler  &  Doug  Currie)  -­ 4808  names  – Tipuloidae (Herman  De  Jong  &  Pjotr Oosterbroek)  -­ 9093  names

• Diptera – forthcoming   lists– Chironomidae:  Buchonomyiinae,  Chilenomyiinae,  Podonominae,  Aphroteniinae,  Tanypodinae,  usambaromyiinae,  Diamesinae,  Prodiamesinaeand  Telmatogetoninae and  Orthocladiinae (Patrick  Ashe  &  James  P.  O’Connor)  – resp.  2000  and  3858  names  

– Other  Diptera groups (RüdigerWagner)  

Potential  groups

• Heteroptera (to  be  received)– Dan  Polhemus– the  list  of  his  father  John  Polhemus

• Odonata– Link  to  odonata.info – same  data  as  exchanged  with  CoL?– Jan  van  Tol to  be  recontacted at  later  stage

• Amphibia -­ Species  checklist  available   through  Amphibian   Species  of  the  World  -­ Darrel  Frost– Website  and  database  being  updated– Selection  of  freshwater  ones  in  collaboration  with  Jörn Köhler and  Miguel  Vences– Potential  for  collaboration  with  CoL?

AquaRES:  collaboration  with  WoRMS and  RAMS

• Some  overlap   in  terms  of  groups  and  editors:  – need   for  exchange– rationalise data  management

• Improve  and  extend  existing  databases– import  tools– geographic   information  entry  tool– checklist  publication

• Contribute   to  the  LifeWatch taxonomic  backbone• Improve  data  exchange   with  international   initiatives

AquaRES:  focus  groups

Integrate  and  extend   lists  for  (among  others):• Annelida:  

– Hirudinea,  Oligochaeta and Polychaeta

• Crustacea:  – Cladocera,  Copepoda,  Amphipoda,  Decapoda and  Mysidacea,  Isopoda

• TardigradaImproving,  generating   data  for:  • Platyhelminthes-­Turbellaria• Rotifera• Nematomorpha• Arachnida-­Halacaridae• Nematoda

Consulting  the  FADA  database  fada.biodiversity.be

Consulting  the  FADA  database  data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu

Data  entry:  Excel  template

Editing  metadata  through  on-­line  interface

FADA  /  AquaRES survey  results

Consultation  of  FADA  experts  May  2015Aaike De  Wever

FADA  /  AquaRES survey  background

• “exploring  which  updates  and  improvements  would  be  of  interest  for  our  editor  network”

• Main  question  in  the  framework  of  AquaRES:– Selection  and  testing  of  suitable  geographical  regions

• Survey  ran  from  5-­27th of  May  2015  (with  reminder  emails  on  the  7th and  22nd)  

• Circulated  to  91  experts  (excluding  project  partners)

Questions

• Geographic  regions– Which,  how  to  provide  data  

• Checklist  management– Current  management,  desired  management  

• Checklist  publication  tool– Known,  options  

• Citation

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FADA-­‐regions TDWG FEOW HydroBasins Other

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Relevant  geographical  units  (N=25)

Editors:   data  providers Editors:   other Users   &  non-­‐identified

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Excel Visual Visual  occurrences Not

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Providing  geographical  data  for  FADA-­‐regions  (N=21)

Editors:   data  providers Editors:   other Users   &  non-­‐identified

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Providing  geographical  data  for  HydroBASIN  (N=21)

Editors:   data  providers Editors:   other Users   &  non-­‐identified

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Loose Text Excel FADA-­‐temp Db On-­‐line Other

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Current  data  management  (N=22)

Editors:   data  providers Editors:   other Users   &  non-­‐identified

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FADA-­‐temp Self  upload Temp+online Export WoRMS On-­‐line   only

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Preferred  data  management  (N=20)

Editors:   data  providers Editors:   other Users   &  non-­‐identified

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Interest  in  checklist  publication  tool  (N=21)

Unknown Known

Options  for  checklist  publication  tool

• Order  by  family  (12  votes)• Order  (alphabetically)  by  species  names (9)• Option  to  generate  list  without  faunistic zones  (7)• Order  by  other  taxonrank (6)• Option  to  exclude  all  taxonomic  comments  (6)• Add  a  field  "short  taxonomic  comments"  for  information  to  be  shown  in  the  checklist  (6)

• Option  to  exclude  long  taxonomic  comments  (2)

Citation

• Format:  – *Editors*,  *publication  date*,  Wold checklist  of  freshwater  *group  name*  species.  Available  online  at  http://fada.biodiversity.be/group/show/*groupid*   [date  accessed]  

• Example:– Bartsh,  I.,  2015  May  12,  World  checklist  of  freshwater  Halacaridae species.  World  Wide  Web  electronic  publication.  Available  online  at  http://fada.biodiversity.be/group/show/32  [date  accessed]

FADA  Business  /  Next  steps  for  FADA

• Update  inventory?  – Census  of  Freshwater  Life?• Interface?• Integration  of  data  in  the  Freshwater  Information  Platform• Society  for  the  Management  of  Electronical Biodiversity  Data  (SMEBD)  discontinued

• FADA  Governance

Import  tool

Checklist  generation