About GMBA Mountain Portal
The Mountain Portal is a digital, open access infrastructure for the collection, access, and sharing of data, information, and knowledge about our world's mountain species and ecosystems as well as about the experts working on understanding, protecting, and managing them.
By building on expert contributions and on powerful workflows to search and mine online resources, it brings together trusted biodiversity data, annotated knowledge, other reference data for analysis and visualization such as environmental layers, and validated information for any of the >8000 mountain ranges of the latest global mountain inventory.
The Mountain Portal is a product of the Global Mountain Biodiversity Assessment and is hosted by the University of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Vision:
Our vision is to support mountain biodiversity research and conservation in achieving a sustainable future for mountain biodiversity worldwide.
Users:
The Mountain Portal is a resource for
- Researchers in Life sciences (botanists, zoologists, ecologists, taxonomists, etc) and related fields.
- Researchers and practitioners in mountain biodiversity conservation and environmental monitoring as well as sustainable mountain development.
- Government agencies and land managers responsible for natural resource management and environmental impact assessments in mountains.
- Intergovernmental organizations in charge of formulating global conservation and sustainable management guidelines and frameworks.
- Citizens, communities and educators curious about mountains and their biodiversity or involved in capacity building and awareness raising.
- Media involved in communication and dissemination.
Benefits of using the Mountain Portal:
- For researchers, it facilitates collaboration, and cutting-edge science.
- For people in government, land management and intergovernmental agencies, it provides data and knowledge to support decision-making, management, agenda setting, implementation, and solutions to environmental issues in mountain regions.
- For citizens, educators, and media, it offers a user-friendly access to readily understandable information.
Contact
Please email us at gmba.ips@unibe.ch.
University of Lausanne, CH-1015 Lausanne
University of Bern, Altenbergrain 21, CH - 3013 Bern.