GMBA report 2010 and outlook

Eva Spehn & Christian Körner GMBA, Institute of Botany, U Basel,

Switzerland

DIVERSITAS SC meeting Paris, 22 March 2011

Special issue onMountain Biodiversity of Plant Ecology &Diversity in 2011

Policy input:

Report for Council of Europe

on „Impacts of climate change on mountain biodiversity in Europe“

Oct. 2010

Brochure„Mountain Biodiversity and global change“ presented at COP 10 in Nagoya

Himalayas-Hindukush EU Alps

Data Mining by Thermal Belts of GMBA mountain portal

Percent of Sampling Points in GMBA web portal

Nival

Upper alpine

Lower alpine

Upper montane

Lower montane

Warm zone

Perpet. warm zone

Spatial Query Result: e.g. all orchids in GMBA webportal for HKH

Where didwe sample,and whereshouldwe sample?

Where arethe gaps?

How to fillgaps ?

GMBA-ICIMOD-GBIF workshop/ training on

“Open Access to Mountain Biodiversity Data of the Hindu Kush Himalayan region”

Kathmandu, Nepal 14th -18th June 2010

• Increase the amount and quality of biodiv. data in mountainsDigitisation and mobilisation, metadata, inaccuracy estimates

• Improve mountain portalFeedback on data qualityPolygons of each mountain regionOverlay with UNEP-WCMC protected areas & other databases

•Global assessment of GBIF data in mountains-> contribute to CBD Mountain programme, IPBES

•Global network of alpine LTER sites

Challenges ahead