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Page title: International Training Centre for Environmental Research

exact: 0.03282071° N, 34.36266809° E

Environmental sciences is studying ecological processes over extended temporal and spatial scales. The International Training Centre for Environmental Research (ITCER) with its staff in Western Kenya provides a local logistic infrastructure for regional, national and international professionals and projects in academics and around working in this area. The facility supports training events, keeps rooms for seminars, a biological laboratory and an area of 1 ha for sustainable long-term field experiments. Informatics expertise and software services are available.

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Geography and Ecosystem, Biodiversity

The ITCER facility is located in the Uradi village, Ng’iya, Siaya County, 60 km from Kisumu at Lake Victoria https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Victoria. The area is part of western Kenya https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyanza_Province in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Africa and often caracterized as belonging to Sub-Saharan Africa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa. The equatorial region has a typical tropical climate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_climate. The region is charactized by a high diversity of species and ecosystems and on the other side by a lot of environmental https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues.

Facility with technical and logistic infrastructure

The infrastructure of the facility is established as answer to the sozio-economical needs of the region for sustainable environmental projects. Subjects are biodiversity and ecosystem monitoring, soil and water conservation, plant pathology, and data management in relation to requirements of the local human population. Citizen science approaches are welcome.

Current studies are done in cooperation with German and universities and research insitutes as well as with initiatives on data infrastructures include The ITCER services are used for studies ranging from climate change and ecological research until long-term monitoring projects related to biodiversity studies, nature conservation and citizen science.

Examplary topics ***es are studies on microplastic in Western Kenya, study on data pipelnines for ethnomycoly in Africa and field experiments as well as projects to mobilise ITCEr biodiversity data for GBIF.

ITCER the requirements objectives of universities, academic organisations as well as governmental environmental agencies in the uniiversity and relies on the self-organisation of persons and organisations

It is built as the result of self-organisation of persons *** The International Training Centre for Environmental Research is a training station for environmental sciences founded in xx and also a research station for . privat sector

open to self-organisation ***

basic services *** output *** continuing education unit

basic services for studying ecological processes over extended temporal scales and over various spatial scales in Western Kenya

laboratory, informatics and data center, training unit

Services for field work and training

output *** continuing education unit broad research approach *** focus Kenya, research data management and informatics

History

ITCER started in 2016 with two interlinked NGOs: ITCER e.V. and ITCER Kenya. The non-profit partner organizations are dedicated to advancing research, teaching, and outreach in environmental sciences and conservation xx in Siaya County, Kenya, by dedicated services of an international training centre.

University of Bayreuth

ITCER is an training center for ***

Panguana is a biological research station, founded in 1968 and since 2011 also a private conservation area extending over almost 10 km² of tropical prime forest in Peru.

==Geography and Biodiversity== biological research station, founded in 1968 and since 2011 also a private conservation area extending over almost 10 km² of tropical prime forest in Peru.

References

Gkoutselis, G., Rohrbach, S., Harjes, J. et al. Plastiphily is linked to generic virulence traits of important human pathogenic fungi. Commun Earth Environ 5, 51 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-023-01127-3

• Kinge, T., Jefwa, J., Houdanon, R., Kamalebo, H., Abdel-Azeem, A., Gryzenhout, M., Triebel, D., Weibulat, T., Rambold, G. 2023. Management and publication of scientific data on traditional mycological and lichenological knowledge in Africa. – The Lichenologist, 55(5): 169–179. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0024282923000294

Gkoutselis G, Rohrbach S, Harjes J, Obst M, Brachmann A, Horn MA, Rambold G. Microplastics accumulate fungal pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems. Sci Rep. 2021 Jul 15;11(1):13214. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-92405-7. PMID: 34267241; PMCID: PMC8282651.

• Weibulat, T. M., & Triebel, D. 2024. Continuation of partnership Germany-Kenya with two workshops in 2023. GBIF Europe and Central Asia Nodes meeting 2024 (GBIF ECA 2024), Zagreb, Croatia. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.12082639

Stoffsammlung

Locality: Uradi Village, Mur Ng’iya, East Alego, Siaya County, Kenya (0.03282071° N, 34.36266809° E)