Internet based species report system

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1 Internet based species report system History Today Tomorrow By Lennart Carlsson, Swedish Species Information Centre

2 Swedish Species Gateway started by Swedish Environmental Protection Agency

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4 Artportalen Species Gateway

5 Good and bad in everyone ebird + Cheap Easy to use Worldwide - Poor data Closed source Not for scientific work Only birds No validation Boaring Species Gateway + Data for re-use All species Scientific aproach Quick response User friendly Validation Funny - Expensive Only the nordic countries

6 30.5 million sightings active submitters unique visitors 2010 (Google Analytics) 88% of the visits is from Sweden and 12% from 120 other countries Five questions of sightings/second! A sighting is submitted every fourth second! Picture from Speceis Gateway Picture Archive Species list with species (52%) is submitted into Artportalen pictures are uploaded to 25% of the submitted species

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8 millon sightings of invertebrates ,7 millon sightings of plants million sightings of birds

9 Four fundamental rules The observer decides what to be reported Publish immediately validate later No ambiguity - a reported sighting must be a complete product ind. or summer 1976 is not allowed Fast processing - a page must be produced in less then a second

10 Validation Private responsibility Determinator, confirmator Professional responsibility Public exposure & validation Expert validation

11 Available for everyone

12 Help for identification What s in it for me? Amateurs My species diary Where to go today? Social media?

13 Inventory work What s in it for me? Scientists

14 Migration counts

15 What s in it for me? Ministry of Environment and regional oblasts Logging, hunting, water managment nature reserve, road constructions and agricultural development all needs good primary data on species distribution

16 Why should I use Species Gateway Naturalists Yor digital book with observations Meeting point Compare your data with other interested people Develop your skills Send in data to be used for science Make your own inventory work Look at pictures Save your data for the future Scientists Improve your work with quality information Get help with distribution maps, statistics and information Find ideas for surveys from data in the system. Get help with your study from amateurs Increase interest of your project Save your data for the future Government(ist) A good source for updated data on species distribution The best tool for collecting species data for biodiversity studies All data for species in the same database, available for all scientists. No lost of data

17 ..destroyed notebooks..fighting scientists..sudden death of vip-scientists By using Species gateway you minimize loss of data caused by..not serious scientists (validation)..computer fire

18 Biodiversity distribution maps (Improve knowledge) Early Blister Beetle Apalus bimaculatus

19 Early blister beetle Apalus bimaculatus From Hundraelva nordiska evertebrater illustrates the knowledge 2002 Knowledge 2011 In total 1248 records in Species Gateway. Redlisted as VU 2000 Redlisted as NT 2005

20 Environment protection work (useful statistics) Population index = # sightings of species sum of # sightings of all species Lesser Whitethroat

21 Lesser whitethroat, spring 2006

22 Thrush Nightingale 8 days late 2011 Red-backed Shrike 9 days late 2011

23 What s in it for me? Environment protection

24 The last crane (Grus grus) Observation of Cranes 2010 Sweden: Norway: Finland: July 2010 October 2010 November 2010

25 The last crane (Grus grus) Sweden 2000 New Zeeland 2007 Norway 2008 Finland 2010 Denmark (coming soon?) Presented for EU 2009 Welcome Belarus Don t be the last crane Dec 2010