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Overview CAFF meeting: Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Mapping Workshop

Arctic Flora Initiatives : Conservation of the Arctic Flora & Fauna (CAFF) meeting in Akureyri, Iceland & Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA) workshop in Ottawa, Canada Steffi Ickert-Bond.

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Overview CAFF meeting: Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Mapping Workshop

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  1. Arctic Flora Initiatives: Conservation of the Arctic Flora & Fauna (CAFF) meeting in Akureyri, Iceland &Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA) workshop in Ottawa, CanadaSteffi Ickert-Bond

  2. 6th International Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group& Circumboreal Vegetation Mapping (CBVM) Joint WorkshopCAFF Biennial28 January – 3 February 2011The Research Center, University of Akureyri, Iceland

  3. Overview CAFF meeting: Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Mapping Workshop PanArctic Lichen Checklist H. Kristinsson (Iceland) PanArctic Floraversion 2011 R. Elven (Norway) Red Listing M. Aronson (Sweden) Arctic Plant Portal K. Bakke-Westergaard (Norway) Arctic Biodiversity Assessment F. Daniëls (Germany)

  4. Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Map Presentations Pilot-scale Mapping for Alaskan Portion of the Circumboreal Vegetation Map Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience Mapping the Boreal Zone of North-eastern America with the CBVM Legend: Pilot Project in Québec, Canada André Robitaille, Jean-Pierre Saucier, Antoine Leboeuf, Élisabeth Dufour Guðmundur Guðjónsson, Eyþór Einarsson and Rannveig Thoroddsen

  5. PanArctic Lichen Checklist Hörður Kristinsson, Eric Steen Hansen & Mikhail Zhurbenko Artic Portal-Interactive Data Maps CAFF Technical Report No 20. • 1885 species in total: 1643 are true lichens, and 242 are lichenicolous fungi. • Online at the Arctic Portal with lists of taxa according to floristic province

  6. PanArctic Flora (PAF) version 2011Reidar Elven & Dave Murray Biogeographic regions Bioclimatic zones

  7. Red Listing : M. Aronson, K. Bakke-Westergaard, F. Daniëls, L. Gillespie, H. Kristinsson, S. Ickert-Bond, H. Väre

  8. First Red-list for Arctic plants • Pan Arctic Flora checklist Elven & Murray 2011 • Distribution = Best (“only”) data we have • 2200 species –> 163 candidates • Final Red-list 2012

  9. Arctic Plant Portal Kristine Bakke-Westergaard, Mora Aronson, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Henry Väre

  10. Arctic Biodiversity Assessment Synthesize and assess the status and trends of biological diversity in the Arctic. Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson

  11. Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson

  12. Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson

  13. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Workshop March 11-12, 2011 Victoria Memorial Museum Building Ottawa Flora of the Canadian Arctic Workshop March 11-12, 2011 Victoria Memorial Museum Building Ottawa http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/

  14. Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA) Project Vision: to produce a comprehensive flora of the entire Arctic ecozone in Canada and northern Alaska. Project Organizational Framework • Project Secretariat: Based at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa • Project Co-Leaders: Lynn Gillespie, Jeff Saarela • Project Steering Committee: Lynn Gillespie, Jeff Saarela, Bruce Ford Flora Boundary ~ limits of the Arctic ecozone in Canada and northern Alaska as circumscribed independently in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM Team 2003; Walker et al. 2005) Website http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/

  15. Flora of the Canadian Arctic Flora Boundary E-W # of species / Floristic Province

  16. http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/

  17. Acknowledgments: Stephen Talbot- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Tom Barry - CAFF Ævar Petersen - Arctic Council Lynn Gillespie - Canadian Museum of Nature Akureyri, Feb. 2011

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