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GBIF MESSAGE MATE
A monthly update– for you, by you!

WHAT WOULD YOU LIKE OTHER GBIF PARTICIPANTS TO KNOW?
Please send us all relevant information - including links to BIF activities in your region
that you wish to bring to attention – to messagemate@gbif.org by Friday, 21 May 2010
for inclusion in next month’s edition.
You may distribute this freely amongst your networks should you wish to do so.
WHAT’S NEW:IMPORTANT DATES
3-7 May: 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands. Paris, France
http://www.globaloceans.org/3-14 May: CSD- Commission on Sustainable Development Implementation CycleReview Session. New York, USA
http://www.un.org/esa/dsd/csd/csd_csd18.shtml
4-7 May: Training Workshop on Biodiversity Data Discovery and Publishing. Dehradun,India
10-13 May: American Workshop on Biodiversity e-Learning Platforms. Cuzco, Peru
http://www.gbif.org/participation/training/events/
11-14 May: ISBER 2010 Annual Meeting & Exhibits. Rotterdam, Netherlands
http://www.isber.org/mtgs/2010rotterdam/program.html
19-21 May: Ecological Society for Eastern Africa Regional Conference on Climate
Change. Kenya, Nairobi
http://www.ecsea.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=133&Itemid=3
10-21 May: The CBD Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice(CBD SBSTTA 14). Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.cbd.int/sbstta14/
18-21 May: PESI 2nd Focal Point Meeting - Towards e-Taxonomy Infrastructure
Networks across Europe and Neighbouring Countries. Edirne, Turkey.
http://www.eu-nomen.eu/pesi/index.php?option=com_events&task=view_detail&agid=1
8&year=2010&month=5&day=18&Itemid=58
22 May: International Day for Biological Diversity. Montreal, Canada
http://www.cbd.int/idb/
24-28 May: Third meeting of the Ad Hoc Open-ended Working Group on Review ofImplementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity (WGRI 3). Nairobi, Kenya
http://www.cbd.int/wgri3/24-28 May: Fourth Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF). Montevideo,
Uruguay
http://www.adaptationlearning.net/events/fourth-assembly-global-environment-facility
27-28 May: IYB Event- Annual Meeting of the African Development Bank. Abidjan,
Cote d'Ivoire
http://www.afdb.org/en/news-events/events-calendar/1/

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31 May-5 June: Biodiversity: 2010 and Beyond; Science and Collections. Ottawa,Canada
http://www.spnhc-cba2010.org/
NEWS/ UPCOMING EVENTS
12-16 July: Amsterdam: NLBIF - University of Amsterdam - LifeWatch joint Summer
Course on Geo-ecological Data Analysis. Course is open for registration till May 22,
students and researchers working with GBIF data(sets) are particularly invited toparticipate.
http://www.gbif.org/participation/training/events/training-event-details/?eventid=88
1-2 July: Paris, 5 & 6 July Brussels, 8 & 9 July Amsterdam: Workshop "Data Quality,
Data Cleansing - Problems, Tools, and Approaches …" by Arthur Chapman. Pleasecontact Node managers at respectively
http://www.gbif.fr/, http://www.biodiversity.be/ and http://www.nlbif.nl/for details andinfo.
PUBLICATIONS 2010 – MAY

Professional publications citing/using GBIF enabled data
Heim, I. and M. Nickel. 2010. Description and molecular phylogeny of Tethya leysae sp.
nov. (Porifera, Demospongiae, Hadromerida) from the Canadian Northeast Pacific withremarks on the use of microtomography in sponge taxonomy. Zootaxa 2422: 1–21.
http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/pdf/ismej201045a.pdf
Lange Canhos, D.A., V. Perez Canhos and A. Marino. 2010.Polinizadores: Desafios eoportunidades no desenvolvimiento de sistemas de informacao on-line. Oecologia
Australis 14(1): 307-316. doi:10.4257/oeco.2010.1401.19.
http://www.oecologiaaustralis.org/ojs/index.php/oa/article/download/oeco.2010.1401.19/
389
Page, R.D.M. 2010.Enhanced display of scientific articles using extended
metadata.WebSemantics:Sci.Serv.Agents. WorldWideWeb.
doi:10.1016/j.websem.2010.03.004
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B758F-4YS4WBX-2C&_c
di=12925&_user=641710&_pii=S157082681000020X&_orig=search&_coverDate=04%2
F03%2F2010&_sk=999999999&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzz-zSkWb&md5=94eabd9db7f03
9ab5c0fad0165eaae60&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Plumb, H.R., T.L. Blanke, S.D. Parr and M. Walsh. 2010. Notice of release of Colorow
black chokecherry. Native Plants Journal 11 (1): 11-14. doi: 10.2979/NPJ.2010.11.1.11.
http://inscribe.iupress.org/doi/abs/10.2979/NPJ.2010.11.1.11?journalCode=npj
Yamazaki, Y.2010.NBRP databases: databases of biological resources in Japan. Nucleic
Acids Research 38: D26-D32. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkp996.
http://nar.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/screenpdf/38/suppl_1/D26.pdf
Professional publications discussing GBIF
Habel, J.C., D. Rodder, S. Scalercio, M. Meyer and T. Schmitt. Strong genetic
cohesiveness between Italy and North Africa in four butterﬂy species. 2010. Biological
Journal of the Linnean Society, 2010,99, 818–830.

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doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2010.01394.x.
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/123336787/PDFSTART
Professional publications mentioning GBIFBolaños Martínez, R. 2010.Nota Científica: First record of the crested guan (Penelopepurpurascens) in the state of Guanajuato, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana 26(1):237-241.
http://www1.inecol.edu.mx/azm/AZM26-1(2010)/26(1)N6-Bola%C3%B1os.pdf
Doroghazi, J.L. and D.H. Buckley. 2010. Widespread homologous recombination within
and between Streptomyces species.The ISME Journal 1- 8. International Society for
Microbial Ecology.
http://www.nature.com/ismej/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/ismej201045a.html
Fiorella, K., A. Cameron, W. Sechrest, R. Winfree and C. Kremen. 2010. Methodologicalconsiderations in reserve system selection: A case study of Malagasy lemurs. BiologicalConservation 143 (4): 963-973. doi:10.1016/j.biocon.2010.01.005.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V5X-4YBX1S1-2-G&_
cdi=5798&_user=641710&_pii=S0006320710000066&_orig=search&_coverDate=04%2
F30%2F2010&_sk=998569995&view=c&wchp=dGLzVlb-zSkWb&md5=ef7ae6c1940d8b6315d54588a640fbe0&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Guralnick, R. and H. Constable. 2010 2VertNet: Creating a Data-sharing Community.
BioScience 60 (4). doi:10.1525/bio.2010.60.4.
http://caliber.ucpress.net/doi/pdf/10.1525/bio.2010.60.4.2
Muñoz, J. and F. Pacios. 2010. Global Biodiversity and Geographical Distribution of
Diapausing Aquatic Invertebrates: The Case of the Cosmopolitan Brine Shrimp,Artemia (Branchiopoda, Anostraca). Crustaceana 83 (4): 465-20. doi:
10.1163/001121610X489449.
http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/brill/cr/2010/00000083/00000004/art00007
Smith, S.A. and M.J. Donoghue. 2010. Combining Historical Biogeography with Niche
Modeling in the Caprifolium Clade of Lonicera (Caprifoliaceae, Dipsacales). SystematicBiology. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syq011.
http://sysbio.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/syq011v1.pdf
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