20110222 behesty monitoring and measuring biodiversity

Monitoring and MeasuringBiodiversity: Some Thoughts Donat Agosti Beheshty University, Tehran February 21, 2011

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Earth Summit

Darwin Core

They all have to do withglobal biodiversity issues

Earth SummitRio Earth Summit 1992:Global Biodiversity CrisisConvention on Biological Diversity

IPBESIntergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecoystem ServicesTool to assess global biodiversity patterns and change

NCBINational Center for Biotechnology InformationGlobal resource for molecular biology information (eg GenBank)

GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information FacilityAccess point to specimen data

http://data.gbif.org/countries/IR

TDWGTaxonomic Data Working GroupBody to create standards to exchange data to build highly distributed global information systems

Darwin CoreGlobal standard to describe specimen data needed for exchange

An example from the Neurocommons text miningpilot:• PubMed abstracts: > 16,000,000• CNS classified abstracts: 874,727• text mining recognized: 368,688• text mining processed: 94,381• extracted graph of 30,000+ relationships and 5,500genes and proteins “protein-protein interaction networks” John Wilbanks, Neurocommons

“protein-proteininteraction networks” John Wilbanks, Neurocommons

This is the world we live in:A truly global community where machines can do an unimaginable amount of work.

It has its dangers:We are not all the same

It has its dangers:We are not all the sameIt has its advantages:All events can be put in context.

Is something a local, regional or global event?

Is something a local, regional or global event?Connecting time series (local) with spatial data

Is something a local, regional or global event?Or is it just a fluctuation or artifact?

Monitoring as a comparative science

Monitoring as a comparative scienceChange over timeChange over land use

What kind of and how many ants? Δt ? Δt ? What is the impact ofΔt ? land use change? Δ? Δt ? What happens over time? Δt ? What happens overForest Urban areas space and time?Pasture CampusCacao / Cabruca

What does it mean?ScienceStandard sampling

Standard repetitive samples

What does it mean?ScienceStandard samplingQuality control

What does it mean?ScienceStandard samplingQuality controlStandards for data descriptionExchange protocols

What does it mean?ScienceStandard samplingQuality controlStandards for data description

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/331/6018/703.full.html

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What does it mean?ScienceStandard samplingQuality controlStandards for data descriptionExchange protocols

Plazi Search and Retrieval Server: Access to data TAPIR, SPM You You human machine You

What do we need?Access

Before antbase.org, Harvard„s Museum ofComparative Zoology could claim to be the onlylocation with a complete set of ant systematicspublications from 1758 - present.Through antbase.org„sdigital library, accessto this body ofliterature is worldwide,and it is actively used(>10,000 visits in onemonth only).

What do we need for monitoring?Access Identification aids

Who are you? What do you do? Who is this? Where are you from? What do I know about her? Where does she live?

What do we need for monitoring?Access Identification aids What species is it?

Semantic, enhanced treatments do the job ...

What do we need monitoring?Access Identification aids What species is it? What do I know about the species?

What do we need for monitoring?Access Identification aids What species is it? What do I know about the species? Where does it live?

What do we need for monitoring?AccessMetadata

What do we need for monitoring?AccessMetadata Describing the data; also to discover it

Linnaeus, C., 1758, Systema naturae. Regnum Animale. 10 th ed., W. Engelmann, Lipsiae,<tax:taxonx xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.taxonx.org/schema/v1 http://www.taxonx.org/schema/v1/taxonx1.xsd http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3/mods-3-1.xsd http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/2003/1.0 http://digir.net/schema/conceptual/darwin/2003/1.0/darwin2.xsd"><tax:taxonxHeader> <mods:mods> <mods:titleInfo> <mods:title>Systema naturae. Regnum Animale. 10 th ed.</mods:title> </mods:titleInfo> <mods:name type="personal"> <mods:role> <mods:roleTerm>Author</mods:roleTerm> </mods:role> <mods:namePart>Linnaeus, C.</mods:namePart> </mods:name> <mods:originInfo> <mods:dateIssued>1758</mods:dateIssued> <mods:publisher>W. Engelmann</mods:publisher> <mods:place> <mods:placeTerm type="text">Lipsiae</mods:placeTerm> </mods:place>

What do we need monitoring?AccessMetadataNetworks get info – provide info

What do we need for monitoring?AccessMetadataNetworks get info – provide info use standards

What kind of ants live in Iran?

Standards „Iran ants“:Use iran ants in google 495,000 recordsShow iran ants in plazi.org

Semantic, XML enhancedtreatments do the job ...

This can also be applied to entire sections of text, such as the treatment of a species and its parts. <tax:treatment> <tax:nomenclature> <tax:name> <tax:xid source="HNS" identifier="19 <tax:xmldata> <dc:Genus>Mystrium</dc:Genus> <dc:Species>leonie</dc:Species> </tax:xmldata> Mystrium leonie </tax:name> <tax:status>n. sp.</tax:status> Fig 1 D - F </tax:nomenclature> <tax:div type="description"> <tax:p>HOLOTYPE WORKER: TL 3.95, H 1.30, SI 137, PW 0.73, ML 0.38. Mand

What do we need for monitoring?Networks get info – provide info use standards use open access / open source

What do we need monitoring?Social networks Information is not free in the sense of „it doesn‘t cost anything“

What do we need?Social networks Information is not free in the sense of „it doesn‘t cost anything“ Information depends on you!

Monitoring biodiversity depends foremost on science...

Monitoring biodiversity depends foremost on science (and good scientists)...... technology makes it just more relevant and powerful.

Biodiversity data at work:The use of our monitoring data by IPBES is an indication that we deliver data and information that can be used beyond our own work to save planet earth.

With my best thanks! Donat Agosti agosti@amnh.org http://plazi.org http://antbase.org

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