In the period 12-14. June 2023, a workshop will be held in IMSI as a part of the EUdaphobase COST action (CA18237 – European Soil-Biology Data Warehouse for Soil Protection). This action aims to create structures and procedures for the development of an open European infrastructure for data on soil biodiversity. The aim is to create a European repository for data and knowledge on soil biology that can further be used for the understanding, protection and sustainable management of soils and their functions. EUdaphobase is based on the existing database Edaphobase – a non-commercial data infrastructure developed by the Senckenberg Natural History Museum in Görlitz- in Germany and combines data from heterogeneous sources on land animals, their distribution and habitat parameters, making them available to the general public (open access).
As part of the workshop, a meeting of working group 7 (Data on microorganisms and molecular data) will be held, headed by Dr. Žaklina Marjanović (https://www.eudaphobase.eu/working-groups/wg-7-microbial-and-molecular-data/ ). The goals of working group 7 are to integrate morphological, ecological and molecular data of soil microorganisms into Edaphobase.
The workshop will be led by the head of CA18237, Dr. David Russell, and the lecturers will be Stephan Lesch, an associate of Dr. Russell who is responsible for the functioning of Edaphobasa, Doc. Dr. Tanja Trakić from the University of Kragujevac and Dr. Žaklina Marjanović (IMSI). The workshop will discuss the future deposit of data obtained from projects in which the Group for Biodiversity of Terrestrial Ecosystems IMSI participates (projects from the Horizon program: INTACT http://www.intactproject.eu/, eco2adapt https://www.eco2adapt.eu / , as well as the EMIPLAST SOS project financed by the Science Fund of Serbia https://www.imsi.bg.ac.rs/evaluation-of-the-microplastic-in-the-soils-of-serbia-emiplast-sos/, managed by IMSI). By including all these projects in the work of CA18237, the primary goal of EU-funded projects is achieved – connection and mutual cooperation.
