The Biomaps Project
The BIOMAPS project
The BIOMAPS project started in the 1990ies when we worked on our first world map of plant species richness (Barthlott et al. 1996). Since then, the project diversified. We continued to map and analyse plant diversity patterns at the global scale. World maps for all major groups of land plants are now available here. From 2001 to 2010 we worked within the large BIOTA Africa network [link: www.biota-africa.de] on regional to continental scale macroecological and conservation related analyses of African plant diversity in a changing environment. During the last years different papers focused on the potential threat of climate and landuse change on large scale plant diversity, large scale patterns of plant and animal endemism richness, plant diversity of oceanic islands, or the associations between plant and animal diversity.
Biomaps Project Team
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Barthlott
barthlott@uni-bonn.de
mutke@uni-bonn.de
Co-ordination BIOMAPS
Dr. Daud Rafiqpoor
d.rafiqpoor@giub.uni-bonn.de
Biodiversität im Wandel
External Members
Dr. Wolfgang Küper
wk@uni-bonn.de
BIOTA Africa
Dr. Gerold Kier
kier@uni-bonn.de
BIOTA Africa
Former Members
Dr. Jan Henning Sommer
since July 2010 at the Centre for Development Research (ZEF), Univ. of Bonn
jun. Prof. Dr. Holger Kreft
Since Dec 2009 Junior Research Group Leader (Jun.-Prof.) at the University of Göttingen
Dr. Sié Sylvestre Da
Dr. Jaime R Garcia-Marquez
BIOTA Africa
Post Doc at the BIK-F, Frankfurt
Dr. Katharina Sabellek
BIOTA Africa
Dr. Jan Schnitzler
BIOTA Africa
Post Doc at the BIK-F, Frankfurt
Laurens Geffert
Globale Laubmoos-Diversität
PhD student at University of Cambridge& UNEP-WCMC
