Global Register of Migratory Species
The Global Register of Migratory Species (abbreviation GROMS ) summarizes the current state of knowledge about migratory species. The number of migratory animal species can only be estimated today and, according to GROMS, is between 5,000 and 10,000.
construction
The register consists of a relational database in connection with a geographic information system (GIS) . GROMS contains a reference list of 4,344 migratory vertebrate species with a multilingual name register with scientific name and author, as well as common names in German and in the UN languages English, French and Spanish. The relational database contains information about the degree of risk (international red list ), protection status according to CMS and CITES as well as the type of migration. The database could be viewed publicly online.
background
GROMS supports the Bonn Convention and its regional agreements as well as the Convention on Biological Diversity . The project was carried out at the Alexander Koenig Zoological Research Museum in Bonn. GROMS was initially financed with start-up funding from 1997 to 2002 with funds from the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Agency for Nature Conservation . The project is now being continued by the Bonn Convention office and supervised by the Koenig Research Museum in Bonn. The results were published as a book with CD, on which the database in MS-Access format and over 1000 distribution maps of migrating vertebrates are accessible.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.groms.de/groms/gromsger.html Status: August 21, 2011
- ^ Klaus Riede: Global Register of Migratory Species / World Register of Migratory Animal Species