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Auflistung nach Autor:in "Mattern, Michael"

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  • Konferenzbeitrag
    A Webbased application for crowdsourced acquisition of species data in the UNESCO MaB Biosphere Reserve Bliesgau
    (Proceedings of the 27th Conference on Environmental Informatics - Informatics for Environmental Protection, Sustainable Development and Risk Management, 2013) Gülden, Christian; Mattern, Michael; Fischer-Stabel, Peter
    The world network of nature reserves has remarkable high natural values (high ecological integrity, high biodiversity, limited human use, rather unstressed systems, resource management is not extractionoriented, etc.) and high cultural values. Especially the UNESCO biosphere reserves comprise ecosystems and people, thus reflecting the human dimension in the environment. It is a network founded upon principles of maintaining biological values while sustaining human populations. In addition, Biosphere reserves serve as laboratories for research and demonstration of ways in progressing towards sustainability of human-environment interactions (including wise-use and economic development). In addition, Biosphere reserves are part of an UNESCO interdisciplinary research program that examines the environmental, social and economic dimensions of biodiversity loss in order to conserve biological and cultural diversity. This is being achieved by providing models of land management and sites of excellence for sustainable development research, environmental monitoring, education and training. To achieve this for the biosphere reserve Bliesgau, it is necessary that a dialogue between environmentalists and the general public will take place to raise awareness of this particular region. The goal is to accomplish this with the help of a web based application that concentrates on featured species, makes them known and encourages the public to take an active part in the preservation. The users can look up detailed information about these species or even interactively assist by seeking these and register them in a map inside the application and provide important information on their finding and the locality. In this way, not only the distribution of the species is mapped, in addition, the people are incorporated into the project Biosphere Bliesgau.
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    An Information Portal for the Research in Nature Reserves: The UNESCO MaB Biosphere Reserve Bliesgau
    (Integration of Environmental Information in Europe, 2010) Fischer-Stabel, Peter; Mattern, Michael; Schäfer, Kerstin
    Biosphere reserves have three main objectives: conserving biological and cultural diversity; providing models of land management and experimental sites for sustainable development, and serving as sites for research, environmental monitoring, education and training. In order to ensure a longterm and a central and efficient access to the literature and data on such a nature reserve for all scientists from the respective institutions, a research information portal was established. Based on a user requirements analysis, a client-server architecture using open source components was set up. Core modules are a metadata-management component and a map service. Beside the own data, the system is interfacing external data sources (e.g. semantic network service, PortalU-SL, geoportal-SL) using standardized protocols to optimize the information retrieval. The goal is to avoid expensive, redundant data acquisition as well as time-consuming information retrieval for the individual research teams. Furthermore, research becomes more transparent, thus allowing better use of possible synergy effects.