Swedish Species Information Center to lead SEK 45-million project
The Swedish Research Council is granting SEK 36 million for the Swedish Species Information Center at SLU, together with the universities of Umeå, Lund, and Gothenburg, the Swedish Museum of Natural History, the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SMHI), and the Swedish Board of Fisheries, to set up an Internet portal where all information will be available about species and factors affecting them.
In three years it will be possible to freely retrieve information about the occurrence of species in Sweden directly from one and the same portal, LifeWatch.
Via LifeWatch, it will then be possible to analyze species’ population changes and occurrence in relation to climate, chemical conditions, and other factors and to present the results as maps, diagrams, and models.
Researchers, environmental analysts, and governmental authorities – as well as interested private individuals – will then not have to request special extracts from separate databases of varying format.
“With just a few clicks you will be able to directly find out if a species has decreased or increased, what happens if the climate or the water quality changes, or what environmental factors are key to forest species in Götaland,” says Ulf Gärdenfors, professor at the Swedish Species Information Center, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), initiator, and head of the project.
Researchers will be able to perform advanced analyses and create models with the aid of freely available computer tools without first having to put a lot of work into compiling and formatting data from various sources.
(2010-06-30)
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