CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY INFORMATION FACILITY Biodiversity and uses of biodiversity data: Example: Bird Atlas of the Comoro Islands Garin Cael Biodiversity Informatics and Cybertaxonomy unit Royal Museum for Central Africa (Tervuren, Belgium)‏ Photo: Claire Spottiswoode CEPDEC-TZ Training Course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information Dar Es Salaam July 2009

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Atlas of the breeding birds of Grand Comoro, Mohéli and Anjouan Louette M., H. Abdérémane, Y. Ibrahim & D. Meirte, assisted by G. Cael, H. Doulton, C. Marsh, B. Meganck & D. Monticelli Atlas des oiseaux nicheurs de la Grande Comore, de Mohéli et d’Anjouan. Studies in Afrotropical Zoology, Tervuren, Belgium N° pp.

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Sources of the data Mainly targeted bird counts, sometimes with specimens Bird counts and loose observations Mainly loose observations

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Difficulties l More than observations, but they suffer from the typical flaws of museum data: l Not gathered for this specific purpose l Incomplete l Errors l In most cases no coordinates

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

Columba polleni - Comoro Pigeon

rainfall altitude forests

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania roads buildings

Coturnix coturnix : open spaces at high altitudes

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Humblotia flavirostris - Humblot’s Flycatcher

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Number of species observed

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Number of species calculated

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Number of endemic taxa observed

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Number of endemic taxa calculated

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Endemicity (taxon level)

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Acknowledgements This presentation was partly based on the following presentations: l An Atlas of breeding birds of the Union des Comores by Michel Louette, Danny Meirte, Garin Cael, Bart Meganck & Patricia Mergen l An atlas of the breeding birds of the Comoro Islands by Bart Meganck

CEPDEC-TZ Training course: Digitisation of Biodiversity Information 13th – 17th July 2009 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Thanks for your attention!