IBF Orthoptera
The diversity of Orthoptera communities in various habitats is not easily to be monitored by visual methods because the individuals are often difficult to localise. For that reason biologists developed advanced methods for acoustic monitoring of the species-specific sound-tracks of grasshoppers. A number of the ca. 90 species in Germany are threatened by habitat destruction and therefore are subject for nature conservation plans, evaluation reports and management tasks. IBF Orthoptera uses Diversity Mobile for inventorying projects of a commercial agency (IVL-Link?) and tracks the presence of taxa by sound tracks and - as far as possible - photographs and describes the habitat by time-stamped photographs. Comparing and testing of DiversityMobile on smartphones should help to optimize the usability to the interface functionality and additional technical features, e.g. GPS, for the outdoor data management. The main task of IBF Orthoptera is the setup of concepts for the Orthoptera monitoring workflow and the testing of audio-function with directional microphone as part of DiversityMobile. Furthermore, the usability of taxon list management, upload functionality for taxon lists and TK25 topographic maps of Bavaria within the DiversityMobile will be task of the work package. Georeferenced images of field plots and research areas could be part of the mobile virtual research environment. They might be designed using the DWB GIS Editor LINK!! on a PC. An integrated data- and workflow starting with data entry, data storage and management in the DWB data repository and publication via GBIF is realised.
GBIF Data Resource "IBF Monitoring of Orthoptera"
Scientist in this workpackage: H. Schott, Prof. Dr. P. Poschlod
Cooperative partners: Dr. S. Ingrisch, Dr. S. Riede
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Podisma pedestris