Toward integrating three large and disparate networks and databases of Amazon tree

biodiversity

Oliver Phillips (Rainfor, UK) & Vanderlei Canhos (CRIA, Br)

May, 2007

Amazon Basin

• ~ 6 million square km

• World’s richest terrestrial ecoregion (biodiversity and carbon storage)

• Landuse change, forest management, and global climate change

• Large impact on the system expected

• Global consequences for biodiversity and climate

Amazon Basin

• Forests in protected areas ~35% of the basin

• Nearly 20% has experienced land use change

• Much larger area will be managed (timber extraction, agriculture, ...)

Integration of networks and databases

• Long term monitoring plot records from > then 100 plots across Amazonia (Rainfor – Red Amazônica de Inventários Florestales)

• Floristic data diversity, composition, and relative dominance from 700 plots across Amazonia (ATDN – Amazon Tropical Diversity Network)

• Georeferenced specimen and observation data from the Amazon basin (ABBIF)

Amazon basin biodiversity information facility: goal, plans and focus

• Goal: build a shared biodiversity data infrastructure

• Action plan to digitize and integrate biodiversity information of the region in a structured manner

• • Adoption of standards and protocols for transparent data

integration and systems interoperability

• Focus: local capacity building (biodiversity informatics)

All GBIF data by one-degree cell (darker colours representing more records)

1,342,953 records

Data from GBIF: All occurrences between 13N and 20S and 83W and 34W

GBIF records from countries of the Amazon Region (excluding Brazil)

573,890 records

BO, CO, EC, GY, GF, PE, SR e VE

GBIF records from the Amazon States of Brazil

15,562 records

speciesLink: all records from Amazonian countries (202,228 records)

GBIF + speciesLink data from Amazon countries (total records: 791,970)

All records: GBIF and speciesLink

GBIF speciesLink Total %GBIF %speciesLinkAmazon Countries (less Brazil) 573.890 84.683 658.573 87% 13%

Brazilian Amazon States 15.562 117.835 133.397 12% 88%All Amazon countries 589.452 202.518 791.970 74% 26%

Survey outcome (Dec 2005)

Country total records digitized georef. info system

Peru 1.747.428 247.657 30.390 Siamazonia

Venezuela 3.103.651 279.240 114.878 no

Bolivia 661.470 0 0 no

Colombia 4.071.632 2.035.000 203.500 Humboldt

Ecuador 258.700 35.000 0 no

French Guyana 160.000 125.600 90.000 gbif

Brazil 3.798.701 695.272 131.656 speciesLink

Subtotal 13.801.582 3.417.769 570.424  

collections outside region 65.738.755 7.258.896 2.742.778 mostly gbif

Total 79.540.337 10.676.665 3.313.202  

Needs and requirements

Need to provide equipment and network software

Allow the use of software that fits the local needs

Support the improvement of internet connectivity

And with ......

Training and local capacity building

strategic alliances with local efforts and initiatives

• http://www.cria.org.br• vcanhos@cria.org.br

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