Contingency Fund

The BioFresh contingency fund serves as additional support for non-partner organisations to adapt, complete and submit databases that are of interest for BioFresh.

Introduction and aim of DAET, contacts

As it is the aim of BioFresh to collect freshwater biodiversity data of the whole world to evaluate status, trends, pressures and conservation priorities, the DAET project wants to contribute to this overall target and collect as many (adult) Trichoptera distribution data from Europe as possible. We think that in times of increasing importance of biodiversity, we should also point the way regarding caddisflies and raise the public awareness of this important insect group.

Generally the data collected during the DAET project will be used for scientific analysis within BioFresh regarding aspects of contemporary patterns in Trichoptera biodiversity, climate change and other stressor scenarios. If we get a good coverage of Trichoptera data in Europe we will aim for an IUCN list of threatened species. For collecting the data we have prepared a template (supporting material, downloads below) and we are very well aware that filling the fields in this template accurately might cause a lot of work, but we do think that this information is necessary to get a reliable result. With this DAET project we have the unique chance to take over control and we think that we should absolutely go for it, even if it means that we have to put more efforts in the data collection now.

Everybody who wants to join the DAET consortium and contribute data is very welcome!

Please contact:
Peter J. Neu, coordinator of DAET, or
Astrid Schmidt-Kloiber, BioFresh contact

How to contribute to DAET, data collection

We have compiled a template for contributing data (supporting material, download below), which contain a Trichoptera species list and additional parameters that we need for the DAET, for example coordinates, altitude, stage or information on who collected and identified the species. Further, we added several parameters that will be helpful for the red list assessment. The additional information is classified into two categories: mandatory and optional.

Help on how to fill the template is provided within the template itself and in additional documents that can be found in the supporting material.

Please read the information letter (including terms and conditions) and the data provider agreement carefully before you submit data (supporting material, downloads below).

Supporting material, downloads

Information letter (English version) (pdf, 195 kb)
Information letter (German version) (pdf, 195 kb)
Information letter (French version) (pdf, 195 kb)
Data provider agreement (English version) (pdf, 160 kb)
Data provider agreement (German version) (pdf, 150 kb)
Template for data collection, including the European species list (updated version 12/11, English) (xls, 330 kb)
Additional information & clarifications (English version) (pdf, 220kb)

State of the DAET work

Up to now we have collected the willingness of about 60 colleagues from all over Europe to contribute to the DAET project. The following map shows the distribution of the caddisfly data collected so far.

We are grateful to those who have already submitted their records! If you want to contribute to this project, please contact Peter J. Neu.

(click on the map to enlarge)

DAET data 25. November 2011

Spatial data: http://www.diva-gis.org/ G_OBE Task Team and others, eds. 1990
Map design: P.J. Neu (2011)