AP BON (Asia-Pacific BON)

Tetsukazu Yahara (WG1), Shinichi Nakano (WG4), Dedy Darnaedi (LIPI), Eun-Shik Kim (LTER-Asia), Keping Ma (CAS), Sheila Vergara (ACB) DEVELOPMENT OF AP-BON GEOSS-AP symposium GEO BON Conference 2nd GEOSS-AP 2008 JBON AP-BON Workshop organized 1st AP-BON 3rd GEOSS-AP 2009 2nd AP-BON GEO BON Asilomar I 3rd AP-BON 4th GEOSS-AP 2010 CBD COP10 4th AP BON 5th GEOSS-AP KBON 2011 Postponed due to the disaster organized Dec 2-3 4th AP-BON April 2012 5th GEOSS-AP AP BON in IUCN WCC September 2013 October GEO BON Asilomar II AP BON in CBD COP11 MOE-J project S9 (2011-2015)

Goals Developing models & tools to assess biodiversity & ecosystem services in AP Developing models and tools to identify hot spots and EBSA in AP Research plan and outputs co-designed with MoE (user)

Scheme

【Team 1】 Modeling 【Teams 3－5】 【Team 2】 biodiversity changes Biodiversity Gene and species and contribution to changes in forest, diversity changes policy freshwater and marine ecosystems

100< Japanese scientists As a core project of AP BON

Contribution to IPBES, GEO BON, CBD, REDD+, & National Strategy Focus Areas & Monitoring Programs

• The whole Asia-Pacific area – Incl. Mongolia, Nepal, India, ASEAN countries, W Pacific – collaborating with Australia • Genetic and Species diversity – Plant, Fish, Coral, Marine microbes etc • Terrestrial biodiversity and ecosystems – Forest functions and services, Hotspots in Satoyama • Freshwater biodiversity and ecosystems – Aquatic plants, Fish etc • Marine biodiversity and ecosystems – Costal ecosystems, Microbes etc Plant Diversity Assessments in SE Asia Aiming at editing AP Red List of vascular plants

☆ ☆ Recording all spp of ★ ☆ vascular plants ☆ ★ in 100m x 5m

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In Mandor Nature Reserve, W Kalimantan Recording all spp in 100m x 5m

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Pictured guide as an output of Plant Diversity Assessment

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In Mandor Nature Reserve, W Kalimantan Species richness vs Altitude

W Sumatra

Mandor SW Cambodia N Thailand

Taiwan W Java Japan Distribution of rare species：case of Dalbergia

N Thailand S Indochina Lowland Borneo

Yunnan Lowland Myanmar S Phillipiens First publication of AP-BON Book

• Part 1: General Introduction • Part 2: Networks for Monitoring and Research on Biodiversity in the Asia- Pacific Region • Part 3: Establishing a Biodiversity Database • Part 4: New Methods and Analyses for Biodiversity Studies • Part 5: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services • 31 chapters, 480 pages Plan & schedule for programs/products

• AP BON Book series • Collaboration for CBD COP 12 in Korea (2014) – Editing National Biodiversity Outlooks • Contribution to IPBES assessments • By 2015, assessment reports including – Asian Plant Red List of representative groups – Map of Plant Diversity Hotspots in Asia – Map of freshwater fish and aquatic plants – Map of coral changes – Map of candidate EBSA

Links with the GEO BON effort

• WG1: directly linked (Tet Yahara as a co-lead) • WG2: indirect; Plant diversity assessment • WG3: indirect; through JaLTER and ILTER-Asia • WG4: direct (Shinichi Nakano as a WG member; Ian Harrison invited to a WS in Japan) • WG5, 6, 7: not linked; please invite one AP-BON member to each • WG8: direct (Sheila Vergara is a WG member; Motomi Ito working with GBIF and GEOSS Common Infrastructure)

International Workshop on Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation in Asia

(Ito Campus, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, 26 – 27 November 2012) 37 Study lakes

Lake Fukushima-gata, Lake Hachiro-gata Lake Abashiri Lake Sa-gata Lake Jusan Lake Shibayama-gata, Lake Shirarutoro, Lake Kahoku-gata Lake Toro Lake Takkobu Lake Mikata, Lake Ogawara Lake Kitagata Lake Izu-numa, Lake Uchi-numa Lake Koyama, Lake Inawashiro Lake Togo Lake Hinuma Lake Shinji Lake Kasumigaura & Kitaura, Lake Ushiku-numa, Lake Sugao-numa Lake Ezu Lake Teganuma, Lake Inbanuma Lake Biwa Lake Ashino Lake Imuta Lake Kawaguchi, Lake Yamanaka, Lake Aburagafuchi Lake Suwa, Lake Sai, Lake Kizaki Lake Shoujin, Lake Sanaru Lake Motosu

Challenges and opportunities

• Networking many programs and institutes – AsiaFlux, BioNET, BKF (Thailand), CIFOR, CAS (China), CERN (China), DIWPA, FA (Cambodia), Fiji LMMA, FRIM (Malaysia), GBIF, IMER (Vietnam), ITB (Vietnam), ITBC (Sabah, Malaysia), Kasetsert Univ (Thailand), LIPI (Indonesia), LTER-Asia, NaGISA, NIBR (Korea), NU Mongolia, Palau ICRC, Singapore NU, Taiwan FRI, U Hong Kong, WFC etc • Hub institutes • Biodiversity Center of MoE, Japan • ACEAN Center for Biodiversity • Center for Asian Conservation Ecology, Kyushu University

Lessons learned

• Having “Hub institutes” as secretariats • Networking key persons who can work as “Hubs” of human networks • Collaborating not only in having meetings but also in promoting projects – working together in the field – sharing new data – analyzing the data together – publishing the findings together