(andré heughebaert), aaike de wever, hendrik segers, koen martens, astrid schmidt-kloiber, nicolas...
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(André Heughebaert), Aaike De Wever, Hendrik Segers, Koen Martens, Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, Nicolas Bailly, Thierry Oberdorff, Jörg Freyhof, Daniel Hering, William Darwall, Paul Jepson, Klement Tockner
BioFresh: Integrating Freshwater Biodiversity Data
© J. Freyhof, A. Hartl
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The BioFresh project (2010-2014)
Biodiversity of Freshwater Ecosystems: Status, Trends, Pressures, and
Conservation Priorities
EU FP7 project with 18 partner institutes
http://www.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/ © nasaimages.org
Objective: Improve capacity to protect and manage freshwater biodiversity in the face of ongoing changes to global climate and socioeconomics, by– Building a Dedicated Freshwater Biodiversity Information
Platform (BioFresh data portal and metadatabase)– Predicting responses to multiple stressors (modeling work)– Improving awareness on freshwater biodiversity conservation
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BioFresh Information Platform
• Bring freshwater biodiversity data together in a network of interoperable databases
• Make these data publicly available through a data portal acting as a gateway to scientific data
• Tool for scientists, managers, policy makers to visualize data and models
• Geographic coverage: from catchment to global scale• Data coverage:
– Extensive coverage of occurrence data– Integration and links to all kinds of freshwater biodiversity related
data including environmental parameters, species treads, genes,…
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Current status – http://data.freshwaterbiodiversity.eu/
• First version on-line (launched 25th of March)• Integrates Freshwater Animal Diversity Assessment
(FADA) and Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) data
• Basic species search and mapping capabilities• 3 more years of development to go… for:
– Improving functionality– Integrating data– Integrating models
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BioFresh and GBIF
• GBIF is member of the stakeholder council for BioFresh• BioFresh is using available GBIF-data in its portal• BioFresh will mobilize freshwater biodiversity data and
will provide occurrence data to GBIF (either through the national node of provider or through thematic node)– Datasets from both project partners as well as from external
partners– Digitization work both by WorldFish and through external
projects (funded through BioFresh)
• Being explored: possibility of BioFresh becoming a thematic node? In contact with GBIF secretariat
Thanks!Contact: [email protected]
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Partners• Forschungsverbund Berlin, e. V. FVB.IGB, Germany• 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• The International Union for Conservation of Nature, IUCN, Switzerland• Oxford University, UOXF.AC, UK• Universitat de Barcelona, UB, Spain• Helmholtz Zentrum für Umweltforschung, UFZ, Germany• University College of London, UCL, UK• Eidgenössische Anstalt für Wasserversorgung, Abwasserreinigung und
Gewässerschutz, EAWAG, Switzerland• 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• Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, NRM, Sweden
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