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09/12/2023 | Campus-Meldung

Control of invasive species

A new working group of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) network aims to provide better access to data and information on invasive species. The GBIF is responding to a report by the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES). A professor from the University of Kassel is significantly involved.

Image: Paige Winter
A Lionfish in the waters of the Bahamas.

The IPBES assessment of invasive species and their control had recommended, among other things, support for information systems, infrastructure, and data sharing.

"The GBIF Science Committee views invasive species as an area that already warrants priority attention in the coming period, and the IPBES assessment has reinforced this view," said Dr. Birgit Gemeinholzer, committee chair and professor of botany at the University of Kassel. "We are confident that the new working group will effectively build on the work already done to establish GBIF as an important reference point for research and policy in the field of invasion biology."

GBIF is an international network and data infrastructure funded by the world's governments that aims to provide everyone with open access to data on all types of life on Earth.

 

The full GBIF press release can be found here.