J. Wolfgang WägeleMathias Geiger, Björn Rulik & TEAM

Zoological Research Museum Alexander Koenig, Bonn

Organizing a national campaign:

Organizing a national campaign:

CCDB (Canadian Centre for DNA Barcoding)

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners withsequencing experiencetaxonomic knowledgetime and motivation to cooperate

GBOL PIs 2012

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners withsequencing experiencetaxonomic experiencetime to cooperate

Larger natural history museums

BONN

BERLIN

MUNICH

STUTTGART

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners withsequencing experiencetaxonomic experiencetime to cooperate

Larger natural history museums

BONN

BERLIN

MUNICH

STUTTGART

2011

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners withsequencing experiencetaxonomic experiencetime to cooperate

Larger natural history museums

University Institutes

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners withsequencing experiencetaxonomic experiencetime to cooperate

Larger natural history museums

University Institutes

Berlin: angiospermsBielefeld: nematodesBochum: fungi (new, 2016)Bonn: ferns, mossesGiessen: pollen (new, 2016)

Senckenberg am Meer / DZMB

Museum Görlitz

GBOL-Institutions

Organizing a national campaign:

agree on a workflow forspecimensDNAdata

Organizing a national campaign:

agree onregional nodes anddivision of labour

Museum Görlitz

GBOL-Institutions

GBOL-Institutions

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners:

projects with independent funding

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners:

projects with independent funding

Marine organisms (DZMB, Wilhelmshaven)

Subterranean and cave fauna (Goethe-Uni. Frankfurt)

Fauna in brooks and streams (GeneStream Projekt)

Lichens (Botanische Staatssammlung München)

Freshwater Diversity Identification for Europe (FREDIE: Bonn, Berlin)

Barcoding Fauna Bavarica (BFB, Munich)

Organizing a national campaign:

find partners

find additional supporters

Organizing a national campaign:

find additional supporters

group of German Nature Reserves (LANA) Federal Agency for Nature Conservation

Organizing a national campaign:

convince funding agencies

roundtable discussions utilitarian arguments preliminary project description

Organizing a national campaign:

write and submit applicationprepare MoU with partners

Organizing a national campaign:

write and submit applicationprepare MoU with partners

wait, be patient

Organizing a national campaign:

2007-2009 preparationJune 2010 oral presentation (federal ministry)June 2011 submission of applicationOct 2011 BMBF grants 5 Mio € for 3 yearsJune 2012 START

Organizing a national campaign:

find cooperating citizen scientists

Natural History Societyof Thuringia

Organizing a national campaign:

find cooperating citizen scientists

230

recompensation:5 € per specimen

Expertsfor beetles: 45for butterflies: 35for bugs: 7for ferns: 3for sponges: 1for nemerteans: 0

Organizing a national campaign:

discussions: cons and pros

DNA barcoding replaces taxonomists

Organizing a national campaign:

discussions: cons and pros

DNA barcoding replaces taxonomists no, it replaces identification keys

The bottleneck:collecting samples, sorting, identifications, comparisons

The bottleneck:collecting samples, sorting, identifications, comparisons

Taxonomy in Germany Decline in West German universities since 1960

DNA barcoding replaces taxonomists??????

Taxonomy in Germany

What we want to achieve…

Taxonomy in Germany

What we want to achieve…

make taxonomic expertise more visible

public awareness

join ecologists

Taxonomy in Germany

What we want to achieve…

make taxonomic expertise more visible

…….make it more usable

taxonomicimpediment

taxonomyecology

Taxonomy in Germany

What we want to achieve…

make taxonomic expertise more visible

…….make it more usable

…….be more than a species distinguisher!

the good species expert…..adaptations

food preferences

life cycle

dispersal mechanisms

Organizing a national campaign:

discussions: cons and pros

DNA barcodes do not identify species

The endless misunderstanding….

The endless misunderstanding….

The endless misunderstanding….

A species is what a taxonomist recognizes as species….

Organizing a national campaign:

discussions: cons and pros

DNA barcodes do not identify species

reference data bases are as good asthe taxonomists that verify the barcodes

muscid flies

muscid flies

Organizing a national campaign:

discussions: cons and pros

DNA barcoding kills jobs forenvironmental experts

….it creates new businessopportunities

Organizing a national campaign:

find cooperating citizen scientists

discussions: cons and pros

Organizing a national campaign:

find cooperating citizen scientists

…and train them

Organizing a national campaign:

find cooperating citizen scientists

…and train them

new ways to describe species:Leptosciarella ignis (Mycetophilidae)

Heller, K. (2012): Ver. Mus. Naturk. Chemnitz, 35

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

text in native language (German)

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

text in native language (German)

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

make the partners visible !

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

progress report

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

registration of new experts

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

order collection tubes online

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

get instructions

download / upload excel files

Organizing a national campaign:

build a national portal www.bolgermany.de

achievements after three years(2012-2014):

STATISTICS

speciesbarcodes

species in Germanyavailable processed total % finished

Coleoptera "GBOL1" 3236 2164 7930 6700 32.3%Coleoptera "GBOL2" 3299 2612 8617 6700 39.0%Coleoptera total 3988 2936 16547 6700 43.8%Diptera 1510 1123 3423 9500 11.8%div. Arthropoda "GBOL1" 1844 1501 6582 4000 37.5%div. Arthropoda(1) "GBOL2" 481 405 1586 2106 19.2%Hymenoptera 2498 2498 13158 9452 26.4%Lepidoptera(2) 2644 2267 7800 3748 61.2%Vertebrata 326 300 1864 781 38.4%Selected taxa "GBOL3" 988 372 1222 1789 20.8%Soil fauna "GBOL4" 179 128 914 3850 3.2%Plants "GBOL5" 1000 702 1390 4070 17.3%

Σ > 46,00022,000 17,000 71,000

achievements after three years(2012-2014):

STATISTICS

Plan for 2016-2019

Σ = 13.920

expected in Germany

species barcoded till 2015

new species planned in GBOL II

Coleoptera 6700 2936 2700Diptera 9500 1123 1900div. Arthropoda "GBOL1" 4000 1501 1200div. Arthropoda "GBOL2" 2106 405 700Hymenoptera 9452 2498 2750Lepidoptera 3748 2267 500Vertebrata 781 300 150Selected taxa "GBOL3" 1789 372 400Collembola 5301 61 30Oribatida 5202 27 30Gamasina 800 16 30Soil Nematoda 20003 24 30Plants "GBOL5" 4070 702 2200Diatoms 1700 - 400Fungal pathogens & necrotic fungi in orchards

nn - 900

species % GER spp. specimensBaden-Württemberg 420 6.27 744

Bayern 1,538 22.96 3,520

Brandenburg* 433 6.46 895

Hessen 163 2.43 454

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 345 5.15 1,063

Niedersachsen+ 91 1.36 216

Nordrhein-Westfalen 2,362 35.25 9,424

Rheinland-Pfalz 2,658 39.67 10,816

Saarland 191 2.85 227

Sachsen 985 14.70 2,200

Sachsen-Anhalt 1,418 21.16 5,174

Schleswig-Holstein~ 22 0.33 33

Thüringen 2,103 31.39 8,409

Europa 1,865 27.84 5,364

TOTAL 4,546 67.85 48,539

* incl. Berlin Legend:

+ incl. Bremen 0-1%

~ incl. Hamburg 1-10%

11-20%

21-30%

31–40%

geographic coverage: beetles

achievements after three years(2012-2014):

STATISTICS

species % GER spp. specimensBaden-Württemberg 420 6.27 744

Bayern 1,538 22.96 3,520

Brandenburg* 433 6.46 895

Hessen 163 2.43 454

Mecklenburg-Vorpommern 345 5.15 1,063

Niedersachsen+ 91 1.36 216

Nordrhein-Westfalen 2,362 35.25 9,424

Rheinland-Pfalz 2,658 39.67 10,816

Saarland 191 2.85 227

Sachsen 985 14.70 2,200

Sachsen-Anhalt 1,418 21.16 5,174

Schleswig-Holstein~ 22 0.33 33

Thüringen 2,103 31.39 8,409

Europa 1,865 27.84 5,364

TOTAL 4,546 67.85 48,539

* incl. Berlin Legend:

+ incl. Bremen 0-1%

~ incl. Hamburg 1-10%

11-20%

21-30%

31–40%

achievements after three years(2012-2014):

STATISTICS

geographic coverage: beetles

RESOLUTION / separation of species

IDENTIFICATION of species

Tetrastichus spp:(parasitic wasps)

undistinguishableby means of morphology

achievements after four years(2012-2015):

IDENTIFICATION of species

Pteromalidae:(parasitic wasps)

achievements after four years(2012-2015):

IDENTIFICATION of species

Difficult hoverflies:

8 species of Sphaerophoria

can be discerned

achievements after four years(2012-2015):

IDENTIFICATION of species

What is this??

Uromyces pisi

What is this??

DISCOVERIES

DISCOVERIES: new species

Lithobius sp.

Myrmosa sp. nov. (Vespoidea) Cleonymus sp. nov. (Pteromalidae)

Our planet is changing:

http://inamre.blogspot.de

Windscreen…

The consequences…..20 years ago…..

Windscreen…

The consequences…..20 years ago…..

Our planet is changing:

http://inamre.blogspot.de

Can we automatize

biodiversity monitoring???

AMMOD:automated multisensor stationfor monitoring ofspecies diversity

A realistic vision:

Technical solutions:

Technology 1:

automated sampling

&

DNA-Barcoding

Technical solutions:

Technology 1:

automated sampling

&

DNA-Barcoding

automated Malaise trap

AMMOD partners for

Barcoding:

Universität Giessen

Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig – Halle

Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Bonn

87Automated Acoustic

Bio-Monitoring

MoKo, ZFMK, Bonn,

24 February 2014

Technology 2:

Bioacoustic Monitoring

Menille et al. 2012 Methods Ecol Evol

INAU project / Brazil

Autonomous bioacoustics station

AMMOD recording station

sound archive

Fraunhofer FKIE

Wachtberg

Tierstimmenarchiv

Museum für Naturkunde

Berlin

Museum Koenig

Bonn

Fraunhofer IZB

Schloss Birlinghoven

Sankt Augustin

Technology 3:

Automated image recognition

Commercial camera traps in the Pantanal

Computer Vision Group

Universität Jena

Fraunhofer IDMT

Ilmenau

Informatik

TU München

Automated image recognition

MPI Evolutionäre

Anthropologie

Leipzig

ISAS: Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften / Dortmund

Technology 4:

Smellscape analyses

ISAS: Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften / Dortmund

ionization

gas chromatography

detector

Technology 4:

Smellscape analyses

ISAS: Leibniz-Institut für Analytische Wissenschaften / Dortmund

ionization

gas chromatography

Detektor

Technology 4:

Smellscape analyses

Das Ziel……………The future….

modelling of biodiversity

scenarios is possible….

The GBOL Team in BONN:

Biodiversity-informatics

Coordination

Center for Taxonomy

zmb

Molecular lab /Biobank

MatthiasGeiger

GBOL PIs:

J. Astrin, BonnT. Borsch, BerlinM. Geiger, BonnG. Haszprunar, MunichA. Hausmann, MunichK. Hohberg, GörlitzL. Krogmann, StuttgartD. Quandt, BonnM. Scholler, StuttgartW. Traunspurger, Bielefeld

Thankyou !

GBOL- Webportal: www.bolgermany.de

MorphDBase

national PORTAL

voucher collectiondatabase

laboratory informationmanagement system

images