Aaike De Wever
Contact: aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.be
Co-ordinator: tockner@igb-berlin.de
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Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems:
Status, Trends, Pressures, and
Conservation Priorities
EU FP7 project, 18 partner institutions,
Co-ordination: Klement Tockner at IGB Berlin http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu
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Freshwater biodiversity information hub
– Thematic GBIF node / Freshwater SCAR-MarBIN/OBIS
Main components of the “BioFresh-platform”
– Data portal comprising metadatabase and occurrence database
– Global Freshwater Biodiversity Atlas
– Resources and research outputs, blog,… www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu
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http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/
Tailored for freshwater data
Pro-active mobilisation of metadata
Export to EML
– E.g. for use when uploading data through IPT
Exchange with other initiatives planned
– EnvEurope - LTER
– GBIF
– … www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu
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Data model
– Set off with GBIF data (due to project design)
– <-> Hosting own data first (cfr. Canadensys)
Data sources
– ‘BioFresh’ data through BioFresh IPT (digitised data, partner data,…)
– Freshwater datasets shared with GBIF: if possible direct harvesting from source IPT
– ‘Mixed’ datasets: harvested through web services based on a list of freshwater species names (FADA)
– … www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu
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BioFresh Information Platform
Bring freshwater biodiversity data together in a network of interoperable databases and make these (meta)data public
– Primary biodiversity data / species occurrences
(data available through GBIF and mobilised by BioFresh, which are to be exchanged with GBIF)
– Implies use and promotion of GBIF tools such as
Integrated Publishing Toolkit (IPT) and possibly the
Harvesting and Indexing Toolkit (HIT)
– Topical freshwater GBIF node www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu
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- Freshwater Biodiversity Matrix
- Contemporary and Climatic Freshwater
Biodiversity Models
- Climate Vulnerability Index
- Comparative biodiversity trend analysis
- Invasive species spread
- Response signatures
- AquaMaps
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Establish Memorandum of Collaboration with GBIF secretariat
– Promote GBIF informatics processes and tools
– Promote incentive mechanisms (data paper, data citation…)
– Demand-driven data discovery
Engage with (EU) GBIF participant nodes
– Possibility to jointly mobilize data and publication through GBIF country nodes
– Explore possibilities of joint freshwater theme for data mobilization activities
– Possibility for joint workshops to encourage institutional data providers to set up and publish data through an IPT
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Partners
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Forschungsverbund Berlin, FVB.IGB, Germany
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Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences, RBINS
• Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, BOKU, Austria
• WorldFish Center (formerly ICLARM), WorldFish, Malaysia
• Institute de Recherche pour le Développement IRD, France
• Universität Duisburg-Essen, UDE, Germany
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, Switzerland
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Oxford University, UOXF.AC, UK
• Universitat de Barcelona, UB, Spain
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• Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, UFZ, Germany
• University College of London, UCL, UK
• Université Claude Bernard - Lyon 1, UCBL, France
• Université Paul Sabatier - Toulouse 3, UPS, France
• Ecologic GmbH, Institut für Internationale und Europäische Umweltpolitik,
Ecologic, Germany
• Commission of the European Communities - Directorate General Joint
Research Centre, EC-JRC, Italy
• University of Debrecen, UD, Hungary
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Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, NRM, Sweden www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu
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