GB22 S08 Dag Endresen

GB22 Nodes Training. Session 08, Sample-data use case 3: Macrophytes12 Riparian vegetation coverage in reaches of the Kinzig river (Germany) Description A research team within the Senckenberg Nature Research Society (Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, SGN) maintains a monitoring programme in different reaches of the Kinzig river in Germany. They have set permanent plots where vascular plants are surveyed twice every year (early spring and summer) using the Braun-Blanquet cover-abundance scale (also known as ‘the relevé method’). This monitoring effort is funded by an international long-term monitoring project which also provides the means to publish the resulting information. The German team sends their data to the data unit via email every year and some time afterwards the information appears in a specialized online portal. The team is making a big effort in both fieldwork and data preparation and would like to obtain more benefits from it. They are exploring other ways to make the data available, but they are unsure of which requirements in terms of data licensing and restrictions to re- publishing they are subject to as part of the project that is funding their research.