Transcript National Platform for Biodiversity Research

National Platform for Biodiversity
Research
Louise Scally
www.biodiversityresearch.ie
• Forum for scientists, policy makers and other interested
stakeholders involved in the field of biodiversity research.
• Auspices of the National Parks and Wildlife Service and the
Environmental Protection. Administered by a secretariat
(BEC Consultants Ltd).
• Wider network of biodiversity platforms that link into
European initiatives through the European Platform for
Biodiversity Research Strategy (EPBRS).
The aims of the platform include:
Facilitating biodiversity research in Ireland, taking into
account the needs of the research community,
stakeholders, policy makers and the public.
Defining national biodiversity research needs
Improving the exchange of information between the
research community and policy makers.
Linking with the EPBRS and other European and
international biodiversity networks.
Invasive Species workshop
March 2011
Recommendations
Enabling Actions
• Integration of the policy environment.
• The coordination and dissemination
biodiversity data (including metadata)
• Funding of IAS research
of
Urgent research priorities
Risk Assessment: Species and pathways
Impact
Management
Risk Assessment: Species and
pathways
• Characteristics species traits which facilitate
invasions.
• Habitat traits that facilitate invasions.
• Dispersal mechanisms.
• Entry point risk assessments.
• Hubs of inoculation and the development of a
priori plans.
Impact
Research to facilitate:
– Our understanding of the influence and impact of IAS
within a range of habitats and sectors.
– Address control measures for IAS across a range of
habitats, species and scales.
– Reduce the impact of Ireland as a donor to other
countries and biogeographical provinces.
– Understand the impact of some alien invasive
species on other alien invasive species.
Management
– Permenanent working group to assist in the
coordination of efforts to deal with the issues of IAS
and to enable a rapid response.
– Inventories, including spatial distribution and
temporal occurance.
– Strategies for the effective control of species
identified as high risk.
– Development of indicators of the ecological &
economic impacts of IAS to help prioritise management
responses towards the most damaging species.
Next steps
• Receive feedback on draft document
• Finalise draft document
• Process of implementation
Thank You
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