Biodiversity data, current gaps and work package efforts

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1 Biodiversity data, current gaps and work package efforts Florian T. Wetzel 1, Veljo Runnel 2, Anton Güntsch 3, Urmas Köljalg 2 1 Museum 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.

2 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 ( ) ~ 204 Mio. georeferenced occurrence records in viewable area

3 Key success factors biodiversity data Example: biodiversity data Nils Valland, NBIC, Norway 2016.

4 Quantity, Quality, Accessability, cf. 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, Biodiversity data mobilisation, harmonization, standardization data workflow

5 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)

6 Data Mobilisation tools and infrastructure PlutoF Workbench. web-based workbench and database solution for biodiversity research ( 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.

7 CS EU BON Portal data providers with information about data availability, amount, contacting details etc., EU BON SC meeting, 2 nd of June, Berlin

8 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.

9 Data mobilisation and management of collection-based data Natural history collections in the world are estimated to contain 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.

10 Data mobilisation and management of collection-based data PESI contains 19,380 new species of which 4,594 are accepted taxa. Import of vernacular names in Fauna Europaea and updates for the global fish taxonomy (Catalogue of fishes). Citizen science data from PlutoF were published to GBIF: georeferenced records Estonia! GBIF observation data records

11 Data mobilisation and management of collection-based data Israel! GBIF observation data records pre GBIF observation data records including data Israel National Butterfly systematic 4 th EU BON Monitoring Roundtable Scheme Museum für for Naturkunde GBIF: 13k dataset, 839,998 records from Israel through BioGIS - Israel Nature 17. November and Parks 2016, Authority Berlin SPNI (e.g. Hamaraag)

12 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.

13 Networking on a European scale 2nd EU BON Stakeholder Roundtable, 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 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

14 More data to be collected, integrated and made be available with open access licenses.. Biodiversity wall at the Museum für Naturkunde see the exhibition! Thank you very much for your attention!

15 Best practice examples 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 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,

16 Relevance of CS Data in GBIF GBIF citizen science records by top European publisher countries Country Count Rank SE GB NO FI DK DE IE BE NL EE FR ES PT CH AT TOP 5: Sweden, UK, Norway, Finland, Denmark GBIF Citizen Science Data ranked by countries (GBIF 08/2016)