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Plants for the Sampled
Red List Index
Outline for the workshop
Workshop outline
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Progress so far
Formulating a strategy for the SRLI
‘Desktop’ conservation assessments
Databasing issues
Terms of collaboration
Conservation assessment demonstration
Implementing a coherent strategy
Summary of outcomes and
recommendations
SRLI – progress so far
• Major taxonomic groups selected
• Data Entry Module modified
• Assessments completed for Data Deficient
conifers
• Pteridophyte sample taken
• Monocot sample taken
• Databasing begun for monocot species
• Other institutions approached
A strategy for the SRLI
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Wide gathering of information
Utilising collections data
Need an auditable data trail
Semi-automated ‘desktop’ assessments
Incorporate expert opinion
Coherent approach to species assessments
Full institutional collaboration
Databasing issues
• Data standards
• Existing institutional databasing programs
• Data exchange formats; GBIF
• IUCN Data Entry Module
Institutional collaboration
• Pooling data
• Restricting data access
• Intellectual property rights
• Funding opportunities
Conservation assessments
• Geo-referencing – accuracy and errorchecking
• Preliminary and full assessments
• Data sources; gathering expert opinions
• Groundtruthing
Conservation assessments
• Data Deficient species or species Not
Evaluated
• Detecting genuine changes
• Predictive mapping of species distributions
• Groundtruthing protocols
Implementing the strategy
• Preferred solutions – what we would like to
see happen
• Bottom line – what will definitely happen
• Timeline (ideally)
• Funding the project
• Consortium approach; nodes
Plants for the Sampled
Red List Index
Summary of outcomes