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EDIT ATBI+M NEWSLETTER 04 April 2011 ____________________ CONTENTS ____________________ NOTE FROM THE EDIT WP7 LEADER………………………….……2 SUMMARY OF THE EDIT ATBI+M ACTIVITIES……………………2 THE EDIT ATBI+M HERITAGE…………………………………..……3 ATBI+M IN SLOVAKIA AND GERMANY – On the right track.....................……....................4 ATBI+M MERCANTOUR/ALPI MARITTIME – A sustainable success story…………………….6 OUTLOOK - ATBI+M IN BIOSPHERE RESERVES............................10 ATBI+M RELATED PUBLICATIONS .................................................11 CONTACTS, WEBSITES, ATBI CONFERENCE USA……….………13 __________________________ The views expressed in the newsletter are those of its correspondents, and do not necessarily reflect the policy of EDIT. WP7 Leader: Christoph L. Häuser (MfN Berlin) Team Leader: Lars Krogmann (SMNS Stuttgart) Coordinators: Anke Hoffmann and Alexander Kroupa (MfN Berlin), Juan Carlos Monje (SMNS Stuttgart) Homepages: www.atbi.eu; www.e-taxonomy.eu ______________________________________________________________________________________ EDIT ATBI+M 04 Page 1 April 2011 NOTE FROM THE EDIT WP7 Leader SUMMARY OF THE EDIT ATBI+M With the EU funding for the EDIT network now ACTIVITIES coming to an end, this will be the last EDIT ATBI+M newsletter in its current format. We First we would like to present a brief summary look back at five years of intensive and successful about the results of our EDIT ATBI+M activities collaboration in organizing and conducting between 2007 and 2010 before going into details biodiversity inventories linked to conservation in the next pages of this newsletter: efforts, which led to a new approach for an ATBI+M concept and business case. This Between 2007 and 2010 Numbers approach focuses on the rapid generation of high March 2011 ATBI+M sites - established in six quality primary occurrence data for many protected areas of four countries 4 different organisms, which captured, processed, a) Mercantour (France) and shared electronically speed up both research b) Alpi Marittime (Italy) and conservation. c) Gemer Area (Slovakia) incl. 3 parks d) Spreewald (Germany) While data collecting and analysis are still ongoing for several EDIT ATBI+M sites, the Surveys 610 main challenge now is to ensure the sustainability Field days 3261 and longer-term future of these pilot projects. As Participants 252 Datasets 68,258 described in this issue, several European ATBI+M Species of ATBI+M sites pilots will be continued and even promise to take a+b / c / d 8305 / 3313 / 110 a future of their own. For those actively involved Species total 10410 in the Mercantour / Alpi Marittime ATBI+M, Animals (% insects) 7504 (90%) responsibilities and data management will be Plants 1,993 Fungi 913 directly handed over to the park authorities, and New species field work will continue there under the region/country/science > 272 / 62 / 21 "Generalized Biological Inventory" (GBI) frame of an trans-boundary action plan for the two parks, with support of the EU Alcotra programme, at least until 2013. All participants are encouraged to continue their involvement and support for these projects under the new project framework. As the ATBI+M concept and model has been proven successful, we also intend to expand the ATBI+M approach to new projects and areas in the future, both regionally, as in the possible case of the UNESCO Man and Biosphere (MAB) reserves in Germany, but also internationally. For this end, we will keep alive the ATBI+M website and data portal, and also maintain communications with you via email and institutional networks. Acknowledgement For the entire EDIT WP7 team, I would like to The ATBI+M team wants to thank all persons use this opportunity to thank personally all the who have contributed to the EDIT ATBI+M many individual contributors, and participants for project. Especially we would like to express our their great and valuable time and efforts, which gratitude to the Park head offices, the ATBI+M were essential to lead this endeavour to such site managers, all experts and stakeholders, and to success. We look forward to a continued the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the productive cooperation in the future. Stay in touch Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart. and remain involved in ATBI+M! Christoph L. Häuser ______________________________________________________________________________________ EDIT ATBI+M 04 Page 2 April 2011 THE EDIT ATBI+M HERITAGE Field manual and tools The ATBI+M manual on The ATBI+M concept field recording techniques EDIT adopted and at first enhanced the ATBI and protocols was published concept by introducing the monitoring component in 2010 by Abc Taxa. 78 (+M). To implement ATBI+M programmes, authors from various responsibilities were distributed between EDIT, institutions worldwide the protected areas, and the experts who would worked hard to make this carry out field work (Figure). manual happen. This manual shall be a valuable source of information for interested parties pursuing field work and inventories. The manual covers topics ranging from habitat and taxa oriented methods up to specific technologies and data management (22 chapters, 653 pages). The manual is freely available at: http://www.abctaxa.be The use of electronic field recording tools and software Signed agreements between EDIT and the was promoted to help protected areas, as well as between EDIT and the minimizing error rates. The individual experts formalize the process. The advantage of using digital concept has been tested, improved, and fully field tools is simplified data accepted. It has been evaluated by stakeholders recording as well as from conservation management towards improved data quality. productiveness and cost-efficiency and judged as Therefore a general a very useful instrument for management and approach for recording geo- conservation of protected areas. referenced species data using customized forms for ESRI ArcPad applications was developed. Fields and field 4 EDIT ATBI+M sites formats correspond to ABCD standards so that Four ATBI+M sites have successfully been exports of recorded data can be directly integrated established in Europe since 2007. So far, more into other databases and applications. than 350 experts have recorded 11728 species (67701 data sets). Status 14.1.11 1) ATBI+M Mercantour National Park Network - Experts and Stakeholders France More than 800 experts and stakeholders from 2) ATBI+M Alpi Marittime Nature Park more than 300 European Italy and non-European institutions are part of the 3) ATBI+M Gemer Area (3 National Parks) ATBI+M network. More Muránska Planina, Slovenský Raj, Slovenský Kras than 350 of those experts Slovakia have visited the ATBI+M sites between 2007 and 2010, and recorded 11728 species (67701 data 4) ATBI+M Spreewald UNESCO Biosphere Reserve sets). They and others greatly contributed to the Germany huge success of the ATBI+M project. ______________________________________________________________________________________ EDIT ATBI+M 04 Page 3 April 2011 ATBI+M IN SLOVAKIA AND Animals represent two-third of all recorded GERMANY – ON THE RIGHT species (n=2223; Fig. 3); 93% of this group are TRACK made up of insects, mainly Lepidoptera (n=838), Coleoptera (n=698), and Diptera (n=521). All Taxa Biodiversity Inventories + Monitoring 3500 (ATBI+M) are large-scale field work efforts to 3000 record, identify, and document the entire biodiversity of a given area. With this concept 2500 EDIT targeted at strengthening the input of 2000 taxonomic expertise for biodiversity conservation 1500 in Europe, by organising the participation of 1000 Number of species species Number of experts at biodiversity inventory and monitoring 500 efforts in conservation areas. Since 2007 four ATBI+M sites have been successfully established 0 8 8 8 8 9 9 9 9 9 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -0 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 in the following European protected areas: y l p v n r y l p v n r y l p v a Ju e o a a a Ju e o a a a Ju e o Mercantour National Park (France), Alpi M S N J M M S N J M M S N Marittime Nature Park (Italy), Gemer area Fig. 2: Data accumulation between 2008 and 2010 (Slovakia) and Spreewald Biosphere Reserve (Germany). Fungi ATBI+M Gemer area in Slovakia 12% The Slovakian ATBI+M ‘Gemer area’ (Fig. 1), consists of three protected areas: Muránska Plantae 21% Planina Slovenský Kras, and Slovenský Raj. Animalia 67% n=3313 Fig. 3: Recorded species New species 28 Diptera species were reported as new for the ATBI+M Gemer area, of which 27 are new for Slovakia and one new for science (Synplasta terezae Ševčík, 2009). Fig. 1: Impression of the Gemer area Also new for the Muránska Planina is the record of the rare dragonfly ‘Balkan Goldenring’ These ATBI+M sites were set up in 2008 and (Cordulegaster heros) (Fig. 4a, b) found as larvae since then, field activities have increased in a small stream. constantly. By November 2010 more than 40 researchers from 12 countries (28 institutions) have visited 130 times the ATBI+M Gemer area and have spent 800 days in the field. Data records Fig. 4a: C. heros, larva So far, experts have recorded 3313 species (8980 (Photo: Matteo E. Siesa) data sets) for these ATBI+M sites. The number of Fig. 4b: C. heros, adult female records has accumulated continually (Fig. 2). All (Photo: Andrej Alena) data sets can be found on www.atbi.eu/gemer/. ______________________________________________________________________________________ EDIT ATBI+M 04 Page 4 April 2011 ATBI+M Spreewald in Germany Arthropods (86 species) represent more than two- third of all recorded species (Fig. 6). The insect The German ATBI+M Spreewald (Fig. 5a, b), group is mainly made up by Hymenoptera, was not set up until 2010, but field activities have Odonata and Orthoptera. been initiated by return. The ATBI+M concept was forthwith accepted and a continuation of the other 4% field activities is foreseen beyond EDIT.