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Arctic Flora Initiatives : Conservation of the Arctic Flora & Fauna (CAFF) meeting in Akureyri, Iceland & Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA) workshop in Ottawa, Canada Steffi Ickert-Bond. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
Arctic Flora Initiatives:
Conservation of the Arctic Flora & Fauna (CAFF) meeting in Akureyri, Iceland &
Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA) workshop
in Ottawa, Canada
Steffi Ickert-Bond
6th International Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group& Circumboreal Vegetation Mapping (CBVM) Joint Workshop
CAFF Biennial
28 January – 3 February 2011
The Research Center, University of Akureyri, Iceland
Overview CAFF meeting:
Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Mapping Workshop
PanArctic Lichen Checklist H. Kristinsson (Iceland)PanArctic Flora version 2011 R. Elven (Norway)
Red Listing M. Aronson (Sweden)Arctic Plant Portal K. Bakke-Westergaard (Norway)
Arctic Biodiversity Assessment F. Daniëls (Germany)
Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Map Presentations
Guðmundur Guðjónsson, Eyþór Einarsson and Rannveig Thoroddsen
Pilot-scale Mapping for Alaskan Portion of the Circumboreal Vegetation Map
Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience
André Robitaille, Jean-Pierre Saucier, Antoine Leboeuf, Élisabeth Dufour
Mapping the Boreal Zone of North-eastern America with the CBVM Legend: Pilot Project in Québec, Canada
PanArctic Lichen Checklist PanArctic Lichen Checklist Hörður Kristinsson, Eric Steen Hansen & Mikhail Zhurbenko
CAFF Technical Report No 20.
• 1885 species in total: 1643 are true lichens, and 242 are lichenicolous fungi.
• Online at the Arctic Portal with lists of taxa according to floristic province
Artic Portal-Interactive Data Maps
PanArctic Flora (PAF) version 2011Reidar Elven & Dave Murray
Biogeographic regions Bioclimatic zones
Red Listing : M. Aronson, K. Bakke-Westergaard, F. Daniëls, L. Gillespie, H. Kristinsson, S. Ickert-Bond, H. Väre
• Pan Arctic Flora checklist Elven & Murray 2011
• Distribution = Best (“only”) data we have• 2200 species –> 163 candidates• Final Red-list 2012
First Red-list for Arctic plantsFirst Red-list for Arctic plants
Arctic Plant Portal Kristine Bakke-Westergaard, Mora Aronson, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Henry Väre
Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson
Arctic Biodiversity AssessmentSynthesize and assess the status and trends of biological diversity in the Arctic.
Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson
Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson
Flora of the Canadian Arctic Workshop
March 11-12, 2011
Victoria Memorial Museum Building
Ottawa
http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/
Flora of the Canadian Arctic Workshop
March 11-12, 2011
Victoria Memorial Museum Building
Ottawa
Project Vision: to produce a comprehensive flora of the entire Arctic ecozone in Canada and northern Alaska. Project Organizational Framework • Project Secretariat: Based at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa • Project Co-Leaders: Lynn Gillespie, Jeff Saarela • Project Steering Committee: Lynn Gillespie, Jeff Saarela, Bruce Ford
Flora Boundary ~ limits of the Arctic ecozone in Canada and northern Alaska as circumscribed independently in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM Team 2003; Walker et al. 2005)
Websitehttp://arcticplants.myspecies.info/
Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA)
Flora of the Canadian Arctic Flora Boundary E-W
# of species / Floristic Province
http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/
Acknowledgments:
Stephen Talbot- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Tom Barry - CAFF
Ævar Petersen - Arctic Council
Lynn Gillespie - Canadian Museum of Nature
Akureyri, Feb. 2011