Aaike De Wever

BioFresh: Integrating Freshwater Biodiversity Data

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Contact: aaike.dewever@naturalsciences.beCo-ordinator: tockner@igb-berlin.de

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The BioFresh project (2010-2014)

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/

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BioFresh rationale

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,…

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BioFresh metadatabase

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– …

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BioFresh occurrence database

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)– …

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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

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Key products of BioFresh

- 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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BioFresh and GBIF

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 instance

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Partners

• Forschungsverbund Berlin, 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• 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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