Nicola Arndt und Matthias Pohl - Neobiota

• Informing national and international institutions on its many possible applications
(publication of the workshop report);
• Making the digital data of the map and the circa 700 mapping units in 19 vegetation
formations widely available on CD-ROM and the Internet for use at a European level, as
well as in individual countries and regions (Interactive CD-ROM published in 2004);
• Preparing the vegetation data for combination/linking with other biological, ecological and
administrative data (cf. project SYNBIOSYS Europe of the international working group
European Vegetation Survey; NATURA 2000);
• Maintaining and creating the capacity to ensure that the public and appropriate organisations
are supplied with relevant data as well as ensuring the continuation and up-dating of the
database at the BfN;
• Developing a European landscape classification with the aim of a planning and land use
strategy considering the natural resources as well as for environmental reporting;
• Obtaining general and, as far as possible, international agreement on the use of the map, for
example for the advancement of nature conservation (inter alia the unified examination and
depiction of the present conservation and protection status of the natural vegetation in
individual countries);
• Organising follow-up meetings to present and discuss progress and to stimulate mutual
support.
The participants of the workshop and all contributors of the pan-European team wish to thank the BfN
for the enormous amount of work done up to now. They consider it necessary – taking into
consideration the available experience and close relations with the national contributors and European
institutions – that the technical responsibility for the database remains there and that the task of
coordinating the application and analysis of the vegetation map of Europe will, for the moment,
remain with the BfN.
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