Creating a Biodiversity Database for the Gesäuse National Park

Generations of scientists were concerned with recording the diversity of life as accurately as possible. These records, whether old or new, have an invaluable scientific value, but are only available for various investigations after elaborate processing processes, only in order to be forgotten again in some folders. In particular, more complex evaluations require a representative database, i.e., in addition to correct processing, the amount of data also plays a fundamental role. For certain analyses, it is also necessary to cover the data for as long as possible, with GEISER, E. & Malicky, M., (2007) at least 30 100 years. Through a biodiversity database, once processed data is available to the researcher in a few minutes. In Austria alone, it is necessary to assume a volume of data whose database-based processing will probably take several hundred man-years. In the future, the goal must be to build a bridge between the data provider and the administrator of the database, because the necessary processing steps for a data import must be minimised to the maximum. The data import, or the pre-processing of the data, can be made by a standardised input much more efficiently and thus more time-saving. Therefore, in the course of this work not only several thousand data sets are imported but also considerations are made as to how the above-mentioned bridge would have to be carried out. As a result of this work, a standard form in MS Excel, which is well applicable in practice, has already been designed, which largely prevents redundancies on sensitive database fields, such as the taxon name or the location, and nevertheless allows the data provider to enter his data quickly. In order to handle biological distribution data correctly, it is a prerequisite to have basic knowledge of biodiversity and its origin. Therefore, attention is also paid to these areas in the present work. You only love what you know and you only protect what you love (Konrad Lorenz) — in addition to WAS, the WO is also of essential importance in order to be able to correctly assess the danger of a species and to initiate appropriate protective measures. The Biodiversity Database, established with the BioOffice 2.0 software solution, will provide answers to these questions in the future and the Gesäuse National Park will be an effective tool for its efforts to protect an impressive area, not just because of its biodiversity.