GBIF-D Fungi & Lichens

	Hemitrichia serpula	Cladonia pleurota	Mycena galericulata

Responsible Institute:
Botanische Staatssammlung München
Menzinger Straße 67, D-80638 München, Germany

Contact Dr. Dagmar Triebel, Coordination Tanja Weibulat, Coordination Assistant	Tanja Weibulat

Description

The GBIF-D node for fungi and lichens aims to open a broad spectrum of scientifically, sociopolitically and economically relevant data in the field of mycological biodiversity to the public. These data are accessible through the GBIF Portal and include valuable records from museums, herbaria, culture collections and monitoring projects with observation data in Germany. The activities of the node are including all biological and taxonomical groups of fungi, myxomycetes (slime moulds) and lichens. In cooperation with the IT Center of the Bavarian Natural History Collections as a data repository, Diversity Workbench workshops as well as other services concerning data storage and data processing, are offered to biodiversity institutions and data providers in Germany. This will ensure an integrated and sustainable data flow to GBIF in the future.

The GBIF-D node "Mycology" was built up between 2002 and 2006, within the BMBF-Project "GBIF-Deutschland: Knoten Mykologie". Since 2010, the GBIF node "Fungi & Lichens" is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) as part of the joint research project "GBIF-D, Kompetenzzentren innovativer Datenmobilisierung".

Currently, the Mycological Node of GBIF Germany delivers more than 370,000 records of fungi, lichens and myxomycetes (slime moulds) to the international GBIF network. They originate from various natural history and culture collections, herbaria and museums in Germany. 250,000 records are georeferenced and 32,000 are accompanied by images. Additionally, a number of information systems and portals with access to biodiversity databases are linked, whose development was supported already in the period between 2002 and 2006 within in the GBIF-D-Mycology context.

Contract numbers:  01 LI 0202,  01 LI 1001 B

Last updated: 2012-03-19	with support from