Arctic Flora Initiatives:

Conservation of the Arctic Flora & Fauna (CAFF) meeting in Akureyri, Iceland &

Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA) workshop

in Ottawa, Canada

Steffi Ickert-Bond

6th International Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna (CAFF) Flora Group& Circumboreal Vegetation Mapping (CBVM) Joint Workshop

CAFF Biennial

28 January – 3 February 2011

The Research Center, University of Akureyri, Iceland

Overview CAFF meeting:

Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Mapping Workshop

PanArctic Lichen Checklist H. Kristinsson (Iceland)PanArctic Flora version 2011 R. Elven (Norway)

Red Listing M. Aronson (Sweden)Arctic Plant Portal K. Bakke-Westergaard (Norway)

Arctic Biodiversity Assessment F. Daniëls (Germany)

Circumpolar Boreal Vegetation Map Presentations

Guðmundur Guðjónsson, Eyþór Einarsson and Rannveig Thoroddsen

Pilot-scale Mapping for Alaskan Portion of the Circumboreal Vegetation Map

Torre Jorgenson, Alaska Ecoscience

André Robitaille, Jean-Pierre Saucier, Antoine Leboeuf, Élisabeth Dufour

Mapping the Boreal Zone of North-eastern America with the CBVM Legend: Pilot Project in Québec, Canada

PanArctic Lichen Checklist PanArctic Lichen Checklist Hörður Kristinsson, Eric Steen Hansen & Mikhail Zhurbenko

CAFF Technical Report No 20.

• 1885 species in total: 1643 are true lichens, and 242 are lichenicolous fungi.

• Online at the Arctic Portal with lists of taxa according to floristic province

Artic Portal-Interactive Data Maps

PanArctic Flora (PAF) version 2011Reidar Elven & Dave Murray

Biogeographic regions Bioclimatic zones

Red Listing : M. Aronson, K. Bakke-Westergaard, F. Daniëls, L. Gillespie, H. Kristinsson, S. Ickert-Bond, H. Väre

• Pan Arctic Flora checklist Elven & Murray 2011

• Distribution = Best (“only”) data we have• 2200 species –> 163 candidates• Final Red-list 2012

First Red-list for Arctic plantsFirst Red-list for Arctic plants

Arctic Plant Portal Kristine Bakke-Westergaard, Mora Aronson, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Henry Väre

Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson

Arctic Biodiversity AssessmentSynthesize and assess the status and trends of biological diversity in the Arctic.

Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson

Fred Daniëls, Lynn Gillespie, Steffi Ickert-Bond, Mora Aronson

Flora of the Canadian Arctic Workshop

March 11-12, 2011

Victoria Memorial Museum Building

Ottawa

http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/

Flora of the Canadian Arctic Workshop

March 11-12, 2011

Victoria Memorial Museum Building

Ottawa

Project Vision: to produce a comprehensive flora of the entire Arctic ecozone in Canada and northern Alaska. Project Organizational Framework • Project Secretariat: Based at the Canadian Museum of Nature, Ottawa • Project Co-Leaders: Lynn Gillespie, Jeff Saarela • Project Steering Committee: Lynn Gillespie, Jeff Saarela, Bruce Ford

Flora Boundary ~ limits of the Arctic ecozone in Canada and northern Alaska as circumscribed independently in the Circumpolar Arctic Vegetation Map (CAVM Team 2003; Walker et al. 2005)

Websitehttp://arcticplants.myspecies.info/

Arctic Flora of Canada and Alaska (AFCA)

Flora of the Canadian Arctic Flora Boundary E-W

# of species / Floristic Province

http://arcticplants.myspecies.info/

Acknowledgments:

Stephen Talbot- U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Tom Barry - CAFF

Ævar Petersen - Arctic Council

Lynn Gillespie - Canadian Museum of Nature

Akureyri, Feb. 2011