IBF Orthoptera
The diversity of Orthoptera communities in various habitats is not easily monitored by visual methods because the individuals are often difficult to localise. For this reason biologists have developed advanced methods for acoustic monitoring of species-specific "sound-tracks" related to grasshoppers. A number of the ca. 90 species found in Germany are threatened by habitat destruction and therefore they are subject to 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 DiversityMobile technology 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 endeavor of IBF Orthoptera is to setup concepts for the Orthoptera monitoring workflow as well as testing the audio-function using directional microphone as part of DiversityMobile. Furthermore, the applicability of taxon list management, upload functionality for taxon lists, and TK25 topographic maps of Bavaria within DiversityMobile will be tasks 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 in 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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