GBIF European Nodes Meeting 2013
Andorran GBIF
ANDORRA
Here we are!
Andorra:
· 468 km2
· Altitudinal range: 850 to 2940 m a.s.l.
· Mean elevation: 2000m a.s.l.
· 175 CORINE habitats (28 CI – 53 %)
WHAT’S THE CENMA?
CENMA: Centre d’Estudis de la Neu i la Muntanya d’Andorra or
Snow and Mountain Research Center of Andorra an entity of
the Andorran Research Institute (IEA).
An interdisciplinary research centre, funding by the Andorran
Government, for advancing on the knowledge of the mountain
environment.
Collecting and diffusing biodiversity information with the SIBA
project.
Since 2010, the CENMA-IEA is the GBIF Node Manager of
Andorra:
Copenhagen, 28 September 2010: “on this day the Principality of Andorra
became the Global Biodiversity Information Facility’s participant - further
entrenching the network’s position as the world’s largest initiative for enabling
free access to biodiversity data via the internet”.
www.iea.ad
www.cenma.ad
Andorran Node
Update biodiversity database: connected to ONG, Environment
Departments, Universities, Naturals Parks...
Participation to GBIF events:
· Training sessions organized during the GBIF Committee
Meeting taking place in Buenos Aires (October 2011)
· Online training: quality on biodiversity database (GBIF Spain,
2012)
Control tasks:
· Ensure the respect of authorship
· Improving the efficiency of the database processes
· Avoiding projects duplication
Andorran Head of Delegation working on become a Voting
Participant on the GBIF Governing Board
The Andorra GBIF website
Available at www.gbif.ad since June 2011
and available in catalan and english languages
The Andorra GBIF website
For example: Mussol pirinenc or Boreal owl (Aegolius funereus )
Andorra entries in GBIF
Adaptation from the Andorra SIBA:
Entries origin:
· Own data: flora, bryophytes…
· Own scientific programs: SOCA (common birds), BMSAnd
(butterflies) …
· Collaboration with other entities from Andorra: Natural Parks
· Publications:
Andorra entries in GBIF
Andorra contribution to GBIF data: 75 000 entries, about
0.02% of the GBIF database
Number of entries
1.0 % 3.3 %
16.5 %
Bryophites 1.0 %
Fungis
Lichens
6.9 %
Flora
Artropods
Molluks
Vertebrats
1.1 %
70.2 %
Andorra entries in GBIF
Future apportation from Andorra to the GBIF data: 22 000
new entries in 2013
Number
of of
entries
after the new apportation
Prevision
new entries
24 2.5
7 % 0.9 %
0.8 %
Bryophites
Fungis
Fungis
27.8 %
Lichens
Lichens
Flora
Flora
Artropods 0.9 %
Artropods
Molluks
14317
9.2 %
Molluks
Vertebrats
Vertebrats
3756
3715
57.9 %
106
Some doubts and weak points: data quality, trainings...
You can help us!
Thank you!