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WildbeeData

Compilation of a comprehensive collection of data on wild bees in Lower Saxony and Bremen as a basis for updating the Red List


Term

2025-03-01 bis 2025-07-31

Project management

  • Henri, Greil


Responsible institute

Institut für Bienenschutz


Project preparer

  • Henri, Greil


Overall objective of the project

Research of publications with observation data of wild bees in the area of present-day Lower Saxony and Bremen and extraction of the heterogeneously stored data (continuous text, tables). An AI language model developed in collaboration with the Technical University of Ilmenau is used to extract the data. The processed data, in combination with unpublished data and data from the Lower Saxony species reporting system, is used to update the checklist and red list of wild bees in Lower Saxony. In addition, the geolocalized data can be used for scientific analysis of trends in wild bees.


Funder

Umweltministerium Niedersachsen (MU)