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4th EU BON Roundtable Museum für Naturkunde 17. November 2016, Berlin

1Museum für Naturkunde Berlin - Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Germany 2Natural History Museum, University of Tartu, Estonia

3Freie Universität Berlin, Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM), Germany.

Biodiversity data, current gaps and work package efforts

Florian T. Wetzel1, Veljo Runnel2, Anton Güntsch3, Urmas Köljalg2


EU BON – Gap Analysis EU BON has found that there are signifcant regional and temporal gaps in biodiversity data in Europe (Wetzel et al, 2015). Also availability an issue ~ one third restricted access positive example GBIF. Gaps can be filled with additional contribution – from monitoring networks, field sites, citizen scientists and scientific collections. EU BON WP1 tasks

Biodiversity observation data in GBIF portal (10.2016) ~ 204 Mio. georeferenced occurrence records in viewable area


Key success factors biodiversity data

Nils Valland, NBIC, Norway 2016.

Example: biodiversity data


Wetzel, F.T., Saarenmaa, H., Regan, E., Martin, C.S., Mergen, P., Smirnova, L., Tua, É.Ó., García Camacho, F.A., Hoffmann, A., Vohland, K. & Häuser, C.L. (2015) The roles and contributions of Biodiversity Observation Networks (BONs) in better tracking progress to 2020 biodiversity targets: a European case study. Biodiversity, 16, 137-149. da

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Biodiversity data

mobilisation, harmonization, standardization

Quantity, Quality, Accessability, cf.


EU BON Taxonomic Backbone

• federated searches on multiple European Checklists via EU BON Unified Taxonomic Information Service (UTIS)

• unified set of individual responses of various checklists:

• PESI (EU-Nomen), • EUNIS, • Natura 2000, • Catalogue of Life, • WoRMS.

• Harmonization and Migration of

Fauna Europaea, new web portal. • Publishing of Data Papers (de Jong et al.

2015)


Data Mobilisation – tools and infrastructure

PlutoF Workbench. web-based workbench and database solution for biodiversity research (http://plutof.ut.ee; University of Tartu Natural History Museum (UTNHM).

• follows Darwin Core data standards • datasets are available online. • complies with GBIF data licensing policy. • acts like GBIF IPT, easy publishing of citizen science datasets for smaller projects not

connected with GBIF nodes.


CS – EU BON Portal

EU BON SC meeting, 2nd of June, Berlin

data providers with information about data availability, amount, contacting details etc.,


Mobile tools for biodiversity data collection

• EU BON partners developed mobile tools for CS nature observations. • Improving data quality and accuracy: e.g. location and time recording,

ease of handling, quick data sharing.

Sound recording and reporting application „My naturesound“, integrated with PlutoF workbench. One of the few apps to enable sound recording for nature observations (Estonia).

Butterfly reporting app „I Saw A Butterfly“, mobilizing data for butterfly monitoring scheme in Israel.


Data mobilisation and management of collection-based data

• Natural history collections in the world are estimated to contain 1.2–2.1 billion specimens (Arino 2010)

• geo-referenced records represent less than 5 % of the estimated total

• Systems further develped in EU BON: Digital Information System for Natural History Collections (DINA), JACQ (herbarium collection management system) and PlutoF.



• PESI contains 19,380 new species of which 4,594 are accepted taxa. Import of 36 549 vernacular names in Fauna Europaea and updates for the global fish taxonomy (Catalogue of fishes).

• Citizen science data from PlutoF were published to GBIF: 670 341 georeferenced records

Estonia!

GBIF observation data records



Israel National Butterfly systematic Monitoring Scheme for GBIF: 13k dataset, 839,998 records from Israel through BioGIS - Israel Nature and Parks Authority – SPNI (e.g. Hamaraag)

GBIF observation data records including data 2010 -2016

GBIF observation data records pre 1900 - 2000

Israel!


Mobile tools for biodiversity data collection

• EU BON partners developed mobile tools for CS nature observations. • Improving data quality and accuracy: e.g. location and time recording, ease of

handling, quick data sharing. Sound recording and reporting application „My naturesound“, integrated with PlutoF workbench. One of the few apps to enable sound recording for nature observations (Estonia).

Butterfly reporting app „I Saw A Butterfly“, mobilizing data for butterfly monitoring scheme in Israel.


Networking on a European scale

2nd EU BON Stakeholder Roundtable, 27.11.2014 Berlin: ● connecting CS initiatives, solutions for existing problems (workflows, tools), ● share best-practice examples ● facilitating new (technological) developments of portals, tools and databases by joining forces.

EU BON Citizen Science Gateway Workshop 27-28 June in Tartu 2016, Estonia

• Focus on Baltic CS initiatives • citizen science initiatives and European

best practice cases • 34 participants from 19 institutions and

organisations


Thank you very much for your attention!

More data to be collected, integrated and made be available with open access licenses…..

Biodiversity wall at the Museum für Naturkunde see the exhibition!


Species Observation System in Norway: • online species observation reporting system

providing more than 60% of all available occurrence data in Norway

• 15 million records, 400,000 with pictures ( 2016), covering 19 800 species and coming from 9400 contributors

The Israeli Butterfly Monitoring Scheme was established in April 2009 • run by the Israeli Lepidopterists Society. • GlueCAD provides services in designing,

facilitating and organizing BMS-IL and the Israel Butterflies Observations portal

By Zeynel Cebeci - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=31645339

Best practice examples


GBIF citizen science records by top European publisher countries

Country Count Rank SE 41 630 932 1 GB 21 905 500 2 NO 16 564 959 3 FI 15 847 030 4 DK 6 628 842 5 DE 5 390 347 6 IE 2 316 795 7 BE 1 625 973 8 NL 1 386 167 9 EE 921 998 10 FR 578 567 11 ES 561 098 12 PT 257 531 13 CH 151 680 14 AT 16 469 15

GBIF Citizen Science Data ranked by countries (GBIF 08/2016)

Relevance of CS Data in GBIF

TOP 5: Sweden, UK, Norway, Finland, Denmark

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