Summary Januar 2020

Summary

Particpants of the 4th sMon Workshop during the price giving of the "UN Decade on Biodiversity"

The fourth workshop of the sMon project took place from 13 - 17 January 2020. With over 50 participants, this was the largest workshop of the project so far.
The success of sMon was also shown by the fact that Dr. Andreas Krüss (Head of the Department of Ecology and Protection of Fauna and Flora; BfN) presented the project with the award "Project of the UN Decade of Biodiversity".

The workshop focused on the new taxon groups of carabids and fishes, and experts on the species groups of wild bees and spiders were also present. A further focus was to assess the availability and quality of data sets on possible drivers of observed changes in biodiversity. Furthermore, it was of interest for all participants to find out which tools can be made available to the sMon participants to visualize the observed trends in a comprehensible way and to show spatio-temporal gaps in the available data sets.

A total of 26 presentations (see below) was held on the above topics and group works were carried out in several small groups.

The potential of available distribution data on ground beetles and other coleoptera was evaluated and already some first analyses were carried out.
Species data on fish (e.g.. from the Fish Atlas of Germany and Austria; also data from WFD surveys of the State of Hamburg) also found to be an extremely valuable data treasure. The work required to make these data available throughout Germany is an worthwhile effort, as indicated by analyses of the data from Hamburg.

It became apparent that comprehensive retrospective data sets for driver analysis in Germany are rather difficult to match with the available species data.
So far, it seems that future data sets (e.g. from remote sensing, but also data specifically collected in-situ) are necessary to improve our understanding of the causes of changes in German biodiversity.

Furthermore, the very constructive discussions between the taxonomic experts of different species groups showed very clearly that an intersection of species data across species groups will be an exciting and worthwhile approach for future analyses in the sMon project.

Presentations (mostly in German)

01 Begrüßung durch das sMon Team (Aletta Bonn et al., iDiv)

02 Zusammenfassung der bisherigen sMon Ergebnisse (Dr. D Eichenberg, iDiv)

03 Erfahrungen aus sMon: Eckpunkte für Anforderungen an ein Biodiversitätsmonitoring in Deutschland (Helge Bruelheide, MLU & iDiv)

04 Die Spinnen Deutschlands: Verbreitung und Trends (Hubert Höfer, AraGes)

05 Die Relevanz von Wildbienen in Deutschland (Anne-Christine Mupepele, Uni Freiburg)

06 Amphibien in Deutschland: Stand der bisherigen Analysen (Klaus Henle, UFZ)

07 Überblick zu den Datenbeständen von Lauf- und Dungkäfern in ausgewählten Gebieten Deutschlands (Jörn Buse, Nationalpark Schwarzwald)

08 Langzeit-Untersuchungen an Laufkäfern in Mitteleuropa: Ergebnisse und Perspektiven für eine zukunftsgerichtete Biodiversitäts-Forschung (Thorsten Assmann, Leuphana)

09 Fischartenatlas von Deutschland und Österreich: Stand und Datenlage in Deutschland (Heiko Brunken, HS-Bremen)

10 Die Fischfauna in Hamburgs Fließgewässern; Erkenntnisse aus dem WRRL-Monitoring (Birgit Budszuhn, BUE Hamburg)

11 Wie werden Beobachtungsdaten erfasst: Umfrage und Diskussion zu Verhalten und Präferenzen bei der Datenerfassung (Diana Bowler, iDiv)