The GE.R.T. (Generare Reti Territoriali) project has been promoted by the Municipality of Brescia to involve citizens into territorial naturalistic surveys for studying and monitoring local biodiversity. The project is hosted by CSMON-LIFE (http://www.csmon-life.eu/), Citizen Science project LIFE13 ENV / IT / 842, which providees a software platform and a dedicated app. Data submitted by the citizens converge into the National Network on Biodiversity (NNB) of the Ministry of Environment. The GE.R.T. project is managed by the Natural Science Museum and by the Municipality Sustainability Department. It involves town’s scientific associations, whose volunteers analyze and validate data sent by the citizens. The aims of this work are: make a first project synthesis after a year of activity; demonstrate the utility of the data collected by the citizen scientists for environment management. The project officially began on May, 2016. At the end of April, 2017, 1786 georeferenced data have been collected, which have been submitted by 89 citizen scientists, even though 75% of data have been collected by 10% of the participant citizens. Data submitted by citizens have been identified at species or genus rank for 85% of the total observations. Those data are divided into four macro-categories: vascular flora, vertebrate fauna, invertebrate fauna and fungi & lichens. Most observations are located in the Province of Brescia (93%), especially from the Municipality of Brescia territory (63%). Some of them are located in the southeast of Brescia, where the Municipality wants to establish a local protected area. In this area, among 263 determined species, some of them (35) result to be under law protection (Habitats Directive 92/43/CEE, Birds Directive 79/409/CEE, L.R. 10/2008). The qualitative and quantitative presence of the protected species has the same importance in the area (13% ca). Unfortunately, a small number of species (Acer negundo L., Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle, Helianthus tuberosus L., Robinia pseudoacacia L., Trachemys scripta, Schoepff) are invasive and alien species (Black list of L.R. 10/2008, Commission Implementing Regulation EU 2016/1141).

Museums, citizen science and territory. GERT projectin brescia

MARTELLOS Stefano
2017-01-01

Abstract

The GE.R.T. (Generare Reti Territoriali) project has been promoted by the Municipality of Brescia to involve citizens into territorial naturalistic surveys for studying and monitoring local biodiversity. The project is hosted by CSMON-LIFE (http://www.csmon-life.eu/), Citizen Science project LIFE13 ENV / IT / 842, which providees a software platform and a dedicated app. Data submitted by the citizens converge into the National Network on Biodiversity (NNB) of the Ministry of Environment. The GE.R.T. project is managed by the Natural Science Museum and by the Municipality Sustainability Department. It involves town’s scientific associations, whose volunteers analyze and validate data sent by the citizens. The aims of this work are: make a first project synthesis after a year of activity; demonstrate the utility of the data collected by the citizen scientists for environment management. The project officially began on May, 2016. At the end of April, 2017, 1786 georeferenced data have been collected, which have been submitted by 89 citizen scientists, even though 75% of data have been collected by 10% of the participant citizens. Data submitted by citizens have been identified at species or genus rank for 85% of the total observations. Those data are divided into four macro-categories: vascular flora, vertebrate fauna, invertebrate fauna and fungi & lichens. Most observations are located in the Province of Brescia (93%), especially from the Municipality of Brescia territory (63%). Some of them are located in the southeast of Brescia, where the Municipality wants to establish a local protected area. In this area, among 263 determined species, some of them (35) result to be under law protection (Habitats Directive 92/43/CEE, Birds Directive 79/409/CEE, L.R. 10/2008). The qualitative and quantitative presence of the protected species has the same importance in the area (13% ca). Unfortunately, a small number of species (Acer negundo L., Ailanthus altissima (Mill.) Swingle, Helianthus tuberosus L., Robinia pseudoacacia L., Trachemys scripta, Schoepff) are invasive and alien species (Black list of L.R. 10/2008, Commission Implementing Regulation EU 2016/1141).
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