Monitoring biodiversity indicators through volunteer networks across Eurasia
Key Facts
FUNDING SCHEME Post-Project
VALUE £197,039
WHERE Ukraine, Slovenia, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Bulgaria
Summary
To generate long-term population data on biodiversity indicators to assess the impact of global change by maintaining and enhancing bat biodiversity programmes in two Eastern European countries and extending the programme to three other countries.
POLLUTION, CLIMATE CHANGE, LAND USE CHANGE, ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
Broad Approches
MIGRATORY SPECIES, CO MANAGEMENT, INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT, POLICY, GENERAL MEASURES, ECOSYSTEM CONSERVATION, IN SITU, SPECIES CONSERVATION
Specific Tools
NBSAP, IMPACT ASSESSMENT, MONITORING, PARTICIPATORY, CEPA, TRAINING, RESEARCH, RESEARCH TRAINING
Countries
Ukraine, Slovenia, Romania, Moldova, Hungary, Bulgaria
Project Outputs
1. Ongoing statistically defensible monitoring programme for Romania and Bulgaria 2. Development of statistically defensible monitoring programme for Hungary, Ukraine and Russia 3. Ongoing improved online international spatial and temporal database on bat species abundances and distributions 4. Improved analysis techniques to automatically detect and identify bat calls from transect data and improved equipment 5. Knowledge of how change in human development and climate impacts bat biodiversity
