Building a data-driven framework to inform policy

Presenting TrIAS project focussing on its technical aspects during 2nd Dahlem-type workshop of International Joint Initiative of LifeWatch ERIC.
Location: Rome
Datum: 2/6-12-2019

Transcript

1. Building a data-driven framework to inform policy
   Damiano Oldoni, Peter Desmet, Lien Reyserhove, Sonia
   Vanderhoeven, Tim Adriaens, Diederik Strubbe, Amy
   Davis, Quentin Groom
   

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2. Valuable decision support tools to inform invasive alien
   species (IAS) policy
   ➔ Information Systems
   ➔ Early warning initiatives
   ➔ Risk assessment protocols
   Once upon a time in Belgium ...
   

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3. Information system : ias.biodiversity.be
   

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4. Early warning initiatives :
   www.observations.be
   www.waarnemingen.be
   

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5. Risk assessment protocols
   

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6. But ….
   Large diversity of actors
   Fragmented data sources
   

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7. E.g. in Flanders
   

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8. E.g. in Flanders
   

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9. But ….
   Slow workflow from observation to science and policy
   Taxonomic, spatial and time limitation
   Large diversity of actors
   Fragmented data sources
   Closed data sources
   

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10. Timely evidence
    Automated workflow
    Transparency
    Standardization
    Reusability
    Sustainability
    What we needed ….
    

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11. The TrIAS-ycle
    

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12. • Checklists
    • Citizen science
    • Specimens
    • Public authorities
    1. Data
    

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13. 1. Data
    Checklists
    Occurrence
    sources
    

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14. • Standardize authoritative checklists
    mapping to DwC:
    • open, repeatable, customizable,
    documented
    • List published checklist
    • Mapping examples
    1. Checklist data
    

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15. • Workflow
    1. extract of all Belgian non-native taxa
    2. unify taxonomy and related
    information
    • Open, repeatable, customizable,
    documented
    • Global Register of Introduced and
    Invasive Species - Belgium
    1. Unify checklist
    

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16. • Unlock
    • Standardize
    • Publish
    • Do it open, repeatable, customizable,
    documented
    • List occurrence datasets
    1. Occurrence data
    

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17. 2. Indicators
    • Checklist indicators
    • Data cube
    • Occurrence indicators
    

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18. 2. Indicators: checklist indicators
    • Number of new introductions per year
    • Cumulative number of introductions
    per year
    • Pathways of introduction
    

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19. 2. Indicators: data cube
    DATACUBE
    BELGIUM
    year
    taxa
    cell
    • 1x1km2 cells
    • Occurrence data from GBIF
    • Taxa from unified checklist
    

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20. 2. Indicators: occurrence indicators
    • Emerging species
    detection
    • Emerging species:
    species increasing in
    number and/or
    distribution in Belgium
    

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21. 2. Indicators: occurrence indicators
    

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22. 3. Analysis
    • Risk mapping
    • Risk assessment
    

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23. 3. Analysis: workflow
    • Develop global scale climate-only
    species distribution models (SDMs)
    • Generate European level SDMs
    • Forecast species distributions under
    climate change scenarios
    

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24. 3. Analysis
    • Risk mapping
    • Risk assessment
    

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25. 4. Communication
    

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26. (technical) lessons learned from TrIAS
    

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27. • Contribute improving existing
    software: GBIF download API, rgbif
    package...
    • Make part of a bigger community
    called TDWG.
    • Check this issue about VRE
    Community
    

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28. Everything you do… do it:
    • open
    • repeatable
    • customizable
    • documented
    Philosophy
    

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30. oscibio.inbo.be/
    

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