BIOTA-South fieldsites: Knersvlakte & Richtersveld South Africa Africa Contact: Dr. Ute Schmiedel, Hamburg University, Germany In 2007 proposed by: Dr. Ute Schmiedel, Hamburg University, Germany BIOTA is a German BMBF (German Ministry of Education and Research) fundend project in which various universities are involved to study the biodiversity and ecosystems of West (BIOTA-West), East (BIOTA-East) and South Africa (BIOTA-South). The Knersvlakte and Richtersveld ar the focal sites of BIOTA-South and were proposed as ATBI+M sites as they are part of the South African biodiversity hotspot. They fall into the the Knersvlakte conservation area and the Richtersveld National Park, respectively. The area is particularly rich in succulent flowering plants that are threatened by ongoing livestock grazing pressures. Richtersveld National Park: http://sea.unep-wcmc.org/wdpa/sitedetails.cfm?siteid=30851&level=nat IUCN category II -28.290, 17.137 |
1- | Laszlo Forro, Hungarian Natural History Museum (Hungary) Expertise: Crustacea: Branchiopoda, Copepoda |
2- | Dr. Ronald Fricke, Staatliches Museum für Naturkunde Stuttgart (Germany) Expertise: Fishes |
3- | Thomas Pape, Natural History Museum of Denmark (Denmark) Expertise: Diptera |
4- | Patricia Mergen, Africa Museum (Belgium) |
5- | JOSE LUIS NIEVES-ALDREY, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Spain) Expertise: Cynipoidea and Chalcidoidea |
6- | Maciey Postuszng, (Poland) |
7- | Marek Wanat, Museum of Natural History, Wroclaw University (Poland) Expertise: Apionidae (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) |
8- | Christoph Häuser, Museum für Naturkunde (Germany) Expertise: Lepidoptera |
9- | Axel Hausmann, Zoologische Staatssammlung München (Germany) Expertise: Geometridae |
10- | Sandra McInnes, Bristish Antarctic Survey (UK) Expertise: Tardigrada |
11- | Mauro Paschetta, Università degli Studi di Torino, Dipartimento di biologia animale e dell'uomo (Italy) Expertise: Araneae |
12- | Daniele Sommaggio, DiSTA, Bologna University (Italy) Expertise: Syrphidae |
13- | Carlos Lado, Real JardÃn Botánico, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones CientÃficas (Spain) Expertise: Eumycetozoans, Myxomycetes, Protostelids, Dictyostelids |
14- | Nicolas Moulin, Indépendant - MNHN (France) Expertise: Dictyoptera: Mantodea ; Orthoptera ; Lepidoptera ; Odonata ; Coleoptera: Carabidae, Cerambycidae |
15- | Fabio Mosconi, Università La Sapienza (Italy) Expertise: Lepidoptera (Butterflies and moths); Cave Lepidoptera |
16- | Romain Edouard GARROUSTE, MNHN (France) Expertise: insects : Hemiptera Heteroptera (terrestrial, aquatic and MARINE) For western Europe : Odonata |
17- | Thomas Wesener, Research Museum Alexander Koenig (Germany) Expertise: Diplopoda |
18- | Viola Clausnitzer, Philipps-University Marburg (Germany) Expertise: Odonata |
19- | Kim Jacobsen, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) Expertise: RMCA WP7/8 new collaborator |
20- | Tatiana Dautova, Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Expertise: Octocorallia, Hexacorallia |
21- | Salim Dautov, Institute of Marine Biology Far East Branch of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Expertise: Echinodermata |
22- | Pedro Cardoso, Universidade dos Açores (Portugal) Expertise: Araneae, troglobiont arthropods |
23- | Samuel James, (USA) Expertise: Earthworms, including molecular phylogeny and DNA barcoding |
24- | Miguel Leal, (Gabon) Expertise: angiosperms |
25- | Vera Malysheva, Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Expertise: Fungi: Basidiomycota: Polyporales, Cantharellales, Tremellales, Exidiales |
26- | Ekaterina Malysheva, Komarov Botanical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia) Expertise: Fungi: Basidiomycota: Agaricales, Boletales, Russulales |
27- | Domir De Bakker, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) Expertise: Araneae |
28- | Sigrid Liede-Schumann, University of Bayreuth (Germany) Expertise: Angiosperms; in particular Apocynaceae - Asclepiadoideae |
29- | Rudolf Meier, National University of Singapore (Singapore) Expertise: Sepsidae (Diptera) |
30- | Andrzej Woźnica, Wroclaw University of Environmental and Life Sciences (Poland) Expertise: Heleomyzidae s. lato, Trixoscelididae, Cnemospathididae - Diptera |
31- | Ugo Dall'Asta, Ugo, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) Expertise: Heterocera : Lymantriidae |
32- | Reza Zahiri, University of Turku (FINLAND) Expertise: Quadrifine Noctuidae (Insecta: Lepidoptera) |
33- | Koen Bostoen, Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium) Expertise: ethnolinguistics, ethnotaxonomies on the basis of vernacular plant names/animal names (focus area: Bantu languages) |
34- | Kai Schütte, University of Hamburg (Germany) Expertise: Mantodea, Odonata, Phasmatodea |
35- | Klaas-Douwe B. Dijkstra, National Museum of Natural History Naturalis (The Netherlands) Expertise: Odonata |
36- | Fabio Cianferoni, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy) Expertise: Hemiptera Heteroptera: Gerromorpha, Nepomorpha, Leptopodomorpha |
37- | Giuseppe Mazza, Museo di Storia Naturale dell'Università degli Studi di Firenze, Sezione di Zoologia (Italy) Expertise: Aquatic Insects |
38- | Anke Hoffmann, Museum fuer Naturkunde Berlin (Germany) Expertise: Small mammals (Rodentia, Macroscelidae, Soricidae) and Bats |
39- | Jeyaraney Kathirithamby, University Of Oxford (United Kingdom) Expertise: Strepsiptera and their hosts |
40- | Dirk Stubbe, Ghent University (Belgium) Expertise: macrofungi, Lactarius |
41- | Kobeke Van de Putte, Ghent University, department of biology, research group mycology (Country) Expertise: Macrofungi, Lactarius & the Lactarius volemus species complex |
42- | Filippo Maria Buzzetti, WBA-World Biodiversity Association (Italy) Expertise: Orthoptera; Heteroptera: Gerromorpha |
43- | Jan Decher, University of Vermont. Dept. of Biology (USA) Expertise: small mammals: shrews, bats, rodents |
44- | Susana Neves, ITQB - Instituto de Tecnologia Quimica e Biologica, Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Portugal) Expertise: Vascular plants; Bupleurum, Apiaceae, Eleusine, Poaceae, Lathyrus, Fabaceae |
45- | Lars Krogmann, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart (Germany) Expertise: Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps) and Pompilidae (spider wasps) |
46- | Stan hutto , (USA) |
47- | Juliane Schaer Juliane Schaer, Museum of Natural History Berlin, Germany (Deutschland) Expertise: Chiroptera |
48- | Thomas Ziegler, German Primate Centre GmbH (Niedersachsen, Germany) Expertise: Primates |
49- | 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 |
50- | Harald Komposch, OIKOS - Institute for ecology and basic research (Austria) Expertise: lichens |
51- | Luca Pietro Casacci, Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell'Uomo (Italy) Expertise: Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera |
52- | Nicole Starik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) Expertise: small mammals: rodents & bats |
53- | Birgit Gemeinholzer, bgbm (germany) |
54- | Christophe Daugeron, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (France) Expertise: Diptera Empididae |
55- | Inocencio Buot Jr, Institute of Biological Sciences, University of the Philippines Los Banos (Philippines) Expertise: Vascular plants, ethnobotany, biogeography, vegetation and landscape ecology |
56- | Felix Javier Gonzalez Estebanez, University of Leon (Spain) Expertise: Lepidoptera |
57- | Ali Halajian, Tuscia university,Italy (Iran) Expertise: Parasites, Helminthology, Birds helminths |
58- | hannah siri huebner, museum koenig, bonn (germany) Expertise: thesis about morphology and taxonomy of amphipods, biomolecular methods |
59- | Jürgen Deckert, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Germany) Expertise: Heteroptera, Aves |
60- | József Geml, Leiden University (The Netherlands) Expertise: Fungi |
61- | Axel Ssymank, Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Konstantinstrasse 110, 53179 Bonn (Germany) Expertise: Syrphidae, Conopidae, Stratiomyidae (Diptera) |
62- | Miloš Černý, (Czech Republic) Expertise: Diptera: Agromyzidae |
63- | Cornelia Deckert, (Germany) Expertise: Vascular plants |
64- | Ruth Bone, associated with Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and IRD, France (based in the UK) Expertise: Angiosperm taxonomy and conservation. |
65- | Mariana Yazbek, IBSAR - American University of Beirut (Lebanon) Expertise: Prunus, Flowering plants |
66- | Arne Saatkamp, IMEP - Institut Méditerranéen d'Ecologie et de Paléoécologie (France) Expertise: Bryophytes (Bryophyta, Marchantiophyta, Anthocerotae), Vascular plants, |
67- | LUIGI PANNO, DEPARTMENT OF PLANT BIOLOGY - MYCOTHECA UNIVERSITATIS TAURINENSIS- MUT (ITALIA) Expertise: FUNGAL BIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY, SYSTEMATIC OF MARINE FUNGI, IDENTIFICATION OF ANAMORPHIC/TELOMORPHIC ASCOMYCETES AND BASIDIOMYCETES (MICRO and MACROFUNGI). |
68- | Martin Just, Biokontakt o.s. (NGO) (Czech Republic) Expertise: Coleoptera, biogeography, environmental impacts, nature conservation. |
69- | Paramjit Singh, (India) Expertise: Taxonomy of temperate and alpine plants especially grasses and bamboos, interest in Nomenclature |
70- | Anna Mácová, (Czech Republic) Expertise: small rodents (Muridae, Arvicolidae, ...), protozoan intestine parasites of small rodents (Apicomplexa) |