Die Konvention ber Biologische Vielfalt

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TaxonomicExpertise Infrastructure
forConservation in Europe
Dr. Fabian Haas and Dr. Christoph L. Häuser GTI
National Focal (GTI NFP) State Museum for Natural
History Stuttgart Germany www.gti-kontaktstelle.d
e
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Response to needs of Conservation and Taxonomy
Community
2nd European GTI Workshop at INA on the Isle of
Vilm in June 2004 Representatives of 13 European
countries and international organisations (GBIF,
FishBase, GBIF) present Discussing the European
situation Achieving closer cooperation GTI-Toolk
it for NFP
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European Situation
Europe has strong taxonomic tradition est.
gt50 of the type specimens in European
institutions Extensive non-European
collections housed Extensive Libraries Good
IT infrastructure Network of Botanical and
Zoological Gardens for ex-situ conservation
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European Situation

• - Decreasing and aging taxonomic community
• - Decreasing university education in taxonomy
• Decreasing budgets and soft money
• Orphaned groups of
• organisms
• Some information
• out-dated

Europes growing Taxonomic Impediment
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European Activities
CETAF Consortium of European Taxonomic
Facilities EEA European Environmental
Agency ECNC European Centre for Nature
Conservation EPBRS European Platform for
Biodiversity Research Strategy EUNIS European
Information System on Nature ETI Expert Centre
for Taxonomic Identification Fauna
Europaea Natura2000 SYNTHESYS Taxonomic
Societies and many others
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National Activities
Complete species lists (national
inventories) Red Lists Local floras and faunas
Field guides and webpages Extra-EU partnerships
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Response to needs of Conservation and Taxonomy
Community
Case studies by BioNET and German
GTI-NFP Acronym database GTI-Toolkit webpage
(prelim.) Expert and Expertise database see
www.gti-kontaktstelle.de for extensive
information (links, ID keys) on taxonomy related
topics
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Response to needs of Conservation and Taxonomy
Community
Expert and Expertise database (Germany) 2200
entries 1950 German Experts 250 from Austria,
Latvia, Russia, Switzerland, UK, USA and
others For all entries detailed listing of the
taxa and approaches the regions and
habitats the relevant CBD issues
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New European Perspective

• strengthen scientific and technological
  excellence by integrating the critical mass of
  resources
• progressive and durable integration of the
  research capacities
• a durable structuring and shaping of research in
  Europe

Network of Excellence FP6
Call identifier FP6-2004-Global-3
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New European Perspective

• Proposed NoE EDIT
• European Distributed Institute for Taxonomy
• Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary,
  Netherlands, Poland, Russia, United Kingdom, USA
• and Species2000 and many others involved
• envisaged workpackages (prelim.)
• Expert and Expertise databases
• Common Infrastructure (physical, IT, Web)
• Research Coordination
• Revisionary Taxonomy on Web
• Education and Training
• Conservation Inventory Programme

Network of Excellence
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Contact
Dr. Christoph L. Häuser chaeuser_at_gmx.de Dr.
Fabian Haas haas.smns_at_naturkundemuseum-bw.de www
.gti-kontaktstelle.de
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Taxonomy
For the CBD taxonomy, the classification of life,
is taken in its broadest sense and includes
biosystematics at genetic, species and ecosystem
levels.
Case studies see www.gti-kontaktstelle.de
Users of taxonomic information