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Westhinder bank Belgium Europe Contact: Dr. Jean Sebastian Houziaux, Natural History Museum Brussels, Belgium In 2006 presented by: Dr. Jean Sebastian Houziaux, Natural History Museum Brussels, Belgium. The Westhinder gravel grounds in front of the Belgian North Sea coast were proposed as marine ATBI+M site following recent reports on high benthic biodiversity compared to the surrounding sandy bottoms, as well as the occurrence of herring spawning (see http://www.ices.dk/reports/MHC/2007/SGBIODIV07.pdf, annex 4). These observations suggest that the site could be considered for designation as a marine protected area under the OSPAR convention framework (report to release), since the habitat is of importance for key-species in the North Sea ecosystem. The taxonomic diversity of the fauna in this area is large (e.g. sponges, bryozoans, hydrozoans) for which specific expertise is required. Site is not present in the UNEP World Database on Protected areas. |
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| 1- | Dr. Quentin Groom, National Botanic Garden of Belgium (Belgium) Expertise: Higher plants |
| 2- | Patricia Mergen, Africa Museum (Belgium) |
| 3- | Christoph Häuser, Museum für Naturkunde (Germany) Expertise: Lepidoptera |
| 4- | Jean-Sebastien Houziaux, RBINS (Belgium) Expertise: marine benthos - fish |
| 5- | Sandra McInnes, Bristish Antarctic Survey (UK) Expertise: Tardigrada |
| 6- | Marcel Uhrin, (Slovakia) Expertise: Chiroptera |
| 7- | Kim Jacobsen, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) Expertise: RMCA WP7/8 new collaborator |
| 8- | Andrzej Woźnica, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland) Expertise: Heleomyzidae s. lato, Trixoscelididae, Cnemospathididae - Diptera |
| 9- | Reza Zahiri, University of Turku (FINLAND) Expertise: Quadrifine Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) |
| 10- | Christian Komposch, Mag. Dr., OEKOTEAM - Institute for Animal Ecology and Landscape Planning (Austria) Expertise: Taxonomy, zoogeography and faunistics of arachnids, especially harvestmen (Opiliones) and spiders (Araneae); actual study (paper, in press) of endemic harvestmen, spiders and scorpions of Austria (Eastern Alps); list of publication see http://www.oekoteam.at/christian.php |
| 11- | Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, University Of Oxford (United Kingdom) Expertise: Strepsiptera and their hosts |
| 12- | Dirk Stubbe, Ghent University (Belgium) Expertise: macrofungi, Lactarius |
| 13- | Kobeke Van de Putte, Ghent University, department of biology, research group mycology (Country) Expertise: Macrofungi, Lactarius & the Lactarius volemus species complex |
| 14- | Filippo Maria Buzzetti, WBA-World Biodiversity Association (Italy) Expertise: Orthoptera; Heteroptera: Gerromorpha |
| 15- | Cezary Tkaczuk, University of Podlasie, Department of Plant Protection (Poland) Expertise: entomopathogenic and acaropathogenic fungi with special reference to Entomophthorales and fungi from Hirsutella genus |
| 16- | Harald Komposch, OIKOS - Institute for ecology and basic research (Austria) Expertise: lichens |
| 17- | Laurens Sparrius, Dutch Bryological and Lichenological Society (The Netherlands) Expertise: Lichens |
| 18- | Andre Aptroot, ABL Herbarium (Netherlands) Expertise: Lichens |
| 19- | Mircea-Dan Mitroiu, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Biology (Romania) Expertise: Hymenoptera: Pteromalidae |
| 20- | Luca Pietro Casacci, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo (Italy) Expertise: Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera |
| 21- | Birgit Gemeinholzer, bgbm (germany) |
| 22- | Anna Nesterovich, Komarov Botanical Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences (Russian Federation) Expertise: Freshwater algae |
| 23- | Ali Halajian, Tuscia university,Italy (Iran) Expertise: Parasites, Helminthology, Birds helminths |
| 24- | Arne Saatkamp, IMEP - Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie (France) Expertise: Bryophytes (Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotae), Vascular plants, |
| 25- | Marc Pollet, Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO) (Belgium) Expertise: Diptera: Dolichopodidae |