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EURO+MED PLANTBASE – RECENT PROGRESS WITHIN THE PAN-
EUROPEAN SPECIES-DIRECTORIES INFRASTRUCTURE (PESI)
Walter BERENDSOHN 1 , Mark J. COSTELLO 2 , Yde de JONG 3 , Anton GÜNTSCH 1 , Gerald
PAROLLY 1 , Eckhard von RAAB-STRAUBE 1
1 Freie Universität Berlin, Botanischer Garten & Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem (BGBM), Germany
g.parolly@bgbm.org
2 Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand; m.costello@auckland.ac.nz
3 Zoological Museum, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands; yjong@uva.nl
Euro+Med PlantBase (www.emplantbase.org/), currently hosted and coordinated by BGBM,
continues to offer its service under the roof of the Pan-European Species-directories
Infrastructure (PESI, see www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi). This initiative started in May 2008 and is
funded by the European Union under the Framework 7 Capacities Work Programme:
Research Infrastructures. Led by the University of Amsterdam, this three-year project
involves 40 partner organisations from 26 countries. PESI provides standardised taxonomic
information by integrating and securing Europe’s taxonomically authoritative species name
registers and nomenclators along with associated expertise networks that underpin the
management of biodiversity in Europe. The database integration comprises the three main
taxonomic information registers that have emerged in Europe, viz. the European Register of
Marine Species, Euro+Med PlantBase and Fauna Europaea. Networks will be expanded by
linking with other expert-edited Global Species Databases that contribute to Species 2000 and
its Catalogue of Life, such as AlgaeBase, the Index Fungorum, the International Plant Names
Index, and the World Register of Marine Species. For Euro+Med PlantBase, the current state
(62 families online) and further action will be reported.
Keywords: Biodiversity informatics, taxonomic data bases, Europe, expertise networks,
Mediterranean region.
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