European Initiative for the Euro+Med PlantBase

Objective (proposal abstract)
The project will develop a state-of-the-art information system for European and Mediterranean plants. A major output will be a catalogue of European plants with synonyms, based on consensus taxonomy, for a wide range of EU users with an unambiguous source of information for its biodiversity commitments. The project builds on the experience of the successful Flora Europaea approach: a consensus taxonomy by involvement of a network of specialists throughout the area. It will start from the electronic data set of the ESF European Documentation System, upgrade and apply new software for comparing datasets, revise and extend coverage to all recognized taxa, develop additional verified data for conservationists, ecologists and other distribution, mapping, conservation status, genetic resources and karyology, together with links to other databases.

The BGBM is responsible for the software development workpackage, specifically for the development of a taxonomic remote editor for the Euro+Med database (specification).