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