28^th to 30^th of January 2008

Presentations for downloading of the EuMon Conference from the 28th to 30th of January 2008 in Leipzig, Germany

The major issues we addressed during the conference were:

• Where are the gaps in biodiversity monitoring?
• Biodiversity Monitoring, needs and duties of governments and the public
• Advantages and problems to build multinational monitoring schemes
• Volunteer involvement in Biodiversity Monitoring
• What types of education are needed to encourage the public's interest in biodiversity and monitoring?

28^th of January: EuMon and Monitoring policy - EuMon in a Nutshell

• Klaus Henle, Welcome to UFZ, data & facts
  
• Astrid Kaemena, Biodiversity monitoring Policy and research needs
  
• Klaus Henle, The EUMon project an overview
  
• Annette Doerpinghaus, The importance of Natura2000 for the implementation of Biodiversity Monitoring
  
• Ana Nieto, BioScore
  
• Pierre Yves Henry, Species Monitoring in Europe: Cost and Methods
  
• Szabolcs Lengyel, Habitat monitoring in Europe: costs and methods
  
• Sandra Bell, Volunteer Involvement in Biodiversity Monitoring
  
• Dirk Schmeller, National responsibilities and conservation priorities
  
• Klaus Henle, EUMon contributions to support the implementation of the Habitats and Birds Directives
  
• Pierre Yves Henry & Bernd Gruber, EuMon databases and characteristics of European biodiversity monitoring
  
• Erik Framstad, BioMAT EuMon tool to support species and habitat monitoring
  

29^th of January: Volunteers in Biodiversity Monitoring - Monitoring IT-tools

• Sandra Bell, Organising Volunteers for Biodiversity Monitoring
  
• Chris van Swaay & Josef Settele, Butterfly Monitoring
  
• Nils Anthes, Bird Monitoring as Citizen Science?
  
• Sandra Bell, Volunteer Motivation
  
• Dan Podjed, How to integrate volunteers?
  
• Deivida Vandzinskaite, Volunteer involvement
  
• Hugo Reinert, Volunteers and Habitat Monitoring
  
• Bernd Gruber, DAtabase on EUoropean MONintoring schemes: the search interface
  
• Hanna Kobierska, EUMon Internet Tools: the reports
  
• Erik Framstad, BioMAT Module 3 Monitoring design tool
  
• Romain Julliard, Assessing state & trends in existing data
  

30^th of January: Data collection and analysis - National responsibilities and conservation priorities

• Romain Julliard, Data issues in species monitoring: where are the traps?
  
• Ian Burfield, Monitoring biodiversity in Europe – the approach of BirdLife International
  
• Nigel G. Yoccoz, Minimal data for solid trends and minimal change detectiion
  
• Bob Bunce, BioHab A framework for the coordination of Biodiversity and Habitats
  
• Andrej SeliÅ¡kar, Data issues in habitat monitoring
  
• Doug Evans, Natura 2000 Status and needs for data & monitoring requirements
  
• Bernd Gruber, Natura2000: representation gaps
  
• Dirk Schmeller, Method overview, National responsibilities and conservation priorities
  
• Bianca Bauch, National Responsibilities for species
  
• Valerij Babij, National responsibilities, Habitats
  
• Dirk Schmeller, Conservation priorities