TY  - JOUR
A1  - Krupp, Friedhelm
A1  - Al-Jumaily, Masaa
A1  - Bariche, Michel
A1  - Khalaf, Maroof
A1  - Malek, Masoumeh
A1  - Streit, Bruno
T1  - The Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network: Generating and sharing knowledge for ecosystem management and conservation
T2  - ZooKeys
N2  - Despite prevailing arid conditions, the diversity of terrestrial and freshwater biota in the Middle East is amazingly high and marine biodiversity is among the highest on Earth. Th roughout the Region, threats to the environment are moderate to severe. Despite the outstanding economic and ecological importance of biological diversity, the capacity in biodiversity-related research and academic education is inadequate. The "Middle Eastern Biodiversity Network" (MEBN), founded in 2006 by six universities and research institutes in Iran, Jordan, Germany, Lebanon and Yemen was designed to fi ll this gap. An integrated approach is taken to upgrade biodiversity research and education in order to improve regional ecosystem conservation and management capacities. A wide range of activities are carried out in the framework of the Network, including capacity building in biological collection management and professional natural history curatorship, developing university curricula in biodiversity, conducting scientifi c research, organising workshops and conferences on Middle Eastern biodiversity, and translating the results of biodiversity research into conservation and sustainable development. Keywords: Middle Eastern biodiversity, nature museums, biodiversity research, biodiversity education, biodiversity conservation, biodiversity networks
KW  - Middle Eastern biodiversity
KW  - nature museums
KW  - biodiversity research
KW  - biodiversity education
KW  - biodiversity conservation
KW  - biodiversity networks
Y1  - 2009
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/8030
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30-79808
SN  - 1313-2970
SN  - 1313-2989
N1  - Copyright F. Krupp et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
VL  - 31.2005
SP  - 3
EP  - 15
PB  - Pensoft Publ.
CY  - Washington, DC
ER  -