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EU BON is happy to announce that Memoranda of Understanding have been signed with four new associated partners. The EU BON family is now joined by DataOne (Observation Network for Earth), USA; Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB) / ECOSCOPE, France; Atlas Florae Europaeae (AFE), Finland; and the Natural Environment Centre / SYKE (Finnish Environment Institute), Finland. Welcome to all!
DataOne (Observation Network for Earth)
DataONE is the foundation of new innovative environmental science through a distributed framework and sustainable cyberinfrastructure that meets the needs of science and society for open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.
Fondation pour la Recherche sur la Biodiversité (FRB) / ECOSCOPE
ECOSCOPE is a national network for long-term observation of biodiversity supported by the French Alliance for Research in Environment. ECOSCOPE aims at coordinating and reinforcing biodiversity observatories through specific actions to contribute to national and global efforts 1 / to support research in understanding and anticipating state and changes in biodiversity and associated ecosystem services and 2 / to provide information and synthesis to support decision making. It has been labelled BON in 2012.
Atlas Florae Europaeae (AFE) is a running long-term programme for mapping the distribution of vascular plants in Europe. The project was launched already in 1965 as a collaborative effort of European botanists and since then the Secretariat was established at the Botanical Museum of the Finnish Museum of Natural History, Helsinki.
The original aim of the AFE is to offer complementary maps with taxonomic notes of species and subspecies for the published Flora Europaea.
Natural Environment Centre / SYKE (Finnish Environment Institute)
The Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE) promotes the conservation of biodiversity by various measures, e.g. by assessments of the conservation status of species and natural habitats or by research on methods of management and restoration of habitats. An important field of research is the significance of ecosystem services and their interactions with biodiversity. SYKE's tasks also include finding solutions to problems with invasive species, assessment of the environmental impacts of genetically modified organisms and permits for international trade in endangered species.
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