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The Centre’s focus is on conserving Biodiversity in a changing world where sustainability of natural resources is a challenging but important goal. It is crucial in ensuring that our global society can develop to its full potential within awell-protected environment, balancing economic, social and environmental demands – the three 'pillars' of sustainability. Sustainable utilisation of the natural world and its biodiversity requires wide, cross-disciplinary analysis including natural and social sciences, engineering solutions, economic assessment and strategic planning; combining them to provide effective transformations towards a more sustainable society.

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Biodiversity is defined as the variability among living organisms from all sources including the ecological complexes of which they are part. It is the foundation of ecosystem services upon which human well-being depends. However, biodiversity is being lost at an unprecedented rate, which is eroding our capacity to sustain the planet. Given the recent recognition of climate change as a key driver for biodiversity loss, in association with historical challenges of habitat and land use change, the conservation of biodiversity is at the core of sustainable development. It is only through the utilisation of the living environment in a renewable fashion that we can achieve a sustainable future.

The Centre for Biodiversity Research represents a core of skilled academic researchers in the field and aims to promote innovative and interdisciplinary research encompassing all aspects affecting the natural world. The Centre is the first of its kind in Ireland and is a flagship initiative for the School of Natural Sciences and for Trinity College and has strong links with other centres working on related topics

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Thu, 21 Oct 2010 08:24:53 -0700 2020 Vision - Improving Ireland’s biodiversity knowledge base http://florists.posterous.com/2020-vision-improving-irelands-biodiversity-k http://florists.posterous.com/2020-vision-improving-irelands-biodiversity-k

2020 Vision - Improving Ireland’s biodiversity knowledge base

The National Biodiversity Data Centre has produced a knowledge gaps document 2020 Vision - Improving Ireland’s biodiversity knowledge base as one output from the recent Biodiversity Knowledge Quest event hosted by the Centre. The document provides a brief summary of the biodiversity knowledge gaps workshops and proposes a list of the key knowledge gaps that could be filled over the next 10 years. This document is a consultation document. 

Interested parties are invited to make written submissions on the content of the document to info@biodiversityireland.ie. Submissions should be received by Friday 29 October 2010.

Feedback is particularly sought on two questions; 

1. Would filling of the key knowledge gaps listed in Table 1 make a significant contribution to expanding our knowledge base over the next 10 years? 

2. Are there any gaps or errors in the tables presented in Appendix I? 

The document can be downloaded from http://www.biodiversityireland.ie/wp-content/uploads/Knowledge-Gaps-Document-_for-consultation_.pdf

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Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:55:47 -0700 Horticulture & Fresh Produce News - National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Annual Report for 2009 http://florists.posterous.com/horticulture-fresh-produce-news-national-biod http://florists.posterous.com/horticulture-fresh-produce-news-national-biod

National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Annual Report for 2009 

The National Biodiversity Data Centre’s Annual Report for 2009 is now available as a download from the Centre's website. This report highlights the main achievements of the Centre in 2009 and provides information on many of the projects undertaken during that time.

 
The National Biodiversity Data Centre would like to draw your attention to the online mapping system, Biodiversity Maps, which the Centre has developed.

Since its establishment, the Data Centre has been working on putting in place the biodiversity information infrastructure needed to bring Ireland’s biodiversity data management firmly into the 21st Century. Part of this infrastructure involved the development of a state of the art web-based mapping system, Biodiversity Maps, through which data from different sources are brought together and made freely available to recorders, researchers and decision-makers. Most of the Centre’s key partners, including state and non-governmental agencies, have already provided databases to populate the system, with the result that 1.25 million records from 8,885 species are now stored securely and made available as a resource for data users.

This resource is available to use at http://www.biodiversityireland.ie andhttp://maps.biodiversityireland.ie.

The National Biodiversity Data Centre welcomes any feedback on the Annual Report 2009 and the work that the Centre is involved in.

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