Download Mapping marine life over the internet

Ocean Biogeographic
Information System
Mapping marine life
over the internet
What do we know?
Rate of discovery of marine
species in European seas
30000
25000
20000
15000
10000
Know least about most
species rich taxa
9 Many new species to be
discovered in best known seas
9
5000
0
1750
1850
Year
1950
OBIS – towards a census of marine life
What species exist?
Identify species
Î List species
Where they occur?
Î Map 9
What is their habitat? Î Atlas 9
How many are there?
Î Census
Î Knowledge
How does it work?
Î Analyse, interpret
Evolving OBIS federation
On-line search and
retrieval of data
HMAP
OBIS network
• Marine scientists and organizations
around over the world
collaborating
• Data from museums, fisheries,
universities and ecological surveys,
including CoML projects
• Unique network for marine
biogeography at a global scale
• Associate Member of the Global
Biodiversity Information Facility
GBIF, IODE,
IOC
IOOS,
Ocean.US
NODC
Species 2000,
ITIS, TDWG
IABO, SCOR
CSIRO, DFO,
NOAA, NMFS,
ICES, FAO
MARBEF
(EurOBIS),
EuroCAT,
BioCASE,
CORONA
Currently on-line
on-line in OBIS
Global
• corals and anemones
• squid and octopus
• mammals, turtles, birds
• plankton
• fish
Fisheries
9 Canadian fishery surveys
9 Historical fish data back
to 1600 (HMAP)
Currently in OBIS
9 Indo-pacific snails and
bivalves
9 Species from global
seamounts
9 Bermuda Atlantic
Time Series of
zooplankton
9 Mid-water animals
from Southampton
Oceanography Centre
database
Over 1 million records & 25,000 species
on-line
on
-line in OBIS (Oct. 2003)
SPECIES
RECORDS
calanoid copepods & euphausids ZooGene
44
114
zooplankton NODC
64
1,142
328
3,172
Seamounts Online species
1,523
7,018
museum fish FishNet
1,392
13,309
molluscs Indo-Pacific
2,333
16,201
186
18,136
2,210
21,682
51
38,260
267
60,162
2,060
92,164
65
178,952
world fish FishBase
17,764
638,362
TOTAL
28,287
1,088,674
squids & octopus CephBase
zooplankton Bermuda Atlantic Time Series
Anemones, corals Biogeoinformatics
mammals, turtles SEAMAP
fisheries DFO
mid-water animals SOC
historical fish HMAP
Hexacorallia
Where is OBIS data from?
Over 25,000 species in OBIS so far
All fishes
All
invertebrates
Coming soon to OBIS !
Major surveys
• Continuous plankton recorder (SAHFOS)
• British benthic marine life (MarLin)
• New Zealand Bryozoa
• East Mediterranean & Black Sea benthos
• Chemosynthetic Ecosystems (ChEss)
• Gulf of Maine Census
• Other CoML field projects
Global marine taxa
• Aplacophora (primitive molluscs)
• Nemertea (ribbon worms)
• Trematode (flukes) parasites of fish
• Turbellaria (flatworms)
• Porifera (SpongeBase)
• Seaweeds and other algae
• Serpulidae (tube worms)
• Ostracoda (clam-like crustaceans)
Additional services
•
•
•
•
•
Educational resources
Images of marine life
Links to species information
Links to technical resources
Technical advice to data providers
Behind the scenes
• Development standards for data sharing
• Website ‘portal’ at Rutgers University
• International Technical Working Group
• Applications for funding
• International Committee
OBIS International Committee
Mark J. Costello (Chair, Canada/Ireland), Neil Ashcroft (UK),
Geoff Boxshall (UK), Daphne G. Fautin (USA),
Tony Rees (replacing Kim Finney) (Australia), Rainer Froese
(Germany), Dennis P. Gordon (New Zealand), J. Frederick
Grassle (USA), Yoshihisa Shirayama (Japan), John Wilkin (USA)
Ex-officio members Yunqing (Phoebe) Zhang, Karen Stocks, James Wood
Secretariat
The Huntsman Marine Science Centre, M. J. Costello
Portal
Rutgers University (F. Grassle, Y. Zhang)
Technical Working Group: representatives from each data contributor
OBIS future
Underway
• More species distribution data, e.g. EurOBIS
• Improved mapping, modeling, species name
services, indexes, software tools
• Development standards for data sharing
• Time series data searching
• Regional nodes
• Intellectual property agreements
• Educational modules
• Species image library
• User monitoring to guide development
OBIS questions
How to globalize
OBIS?
•
•
•
•
•
•
Taxonomically
Geographically
Institutionally
Foster expertise
Regional ‘nodes’
Partnerships
OBIS priorities?
• Data rescue
• Data capture
• On-line tools
• Ocean data overlays
• Species information
(identification, genetic, images)
• Education & outreach
• Other
OBIS future – in your hands
Revelations from new data analysis
• Effects of climate change on species distributions
• Predicting spread of invasive species
• Biodiversity hotspots at species and phylum levels
• Interconnected-ness of ocean regions (seascape
ecology)
Expanded infrastructure ?
• Catalogue of all marine life (CaML)
• Species identification and information
• Habitat classification and mapping
Achievable vision
‰
‰
‰
‰
‰
‰
‰
‰
‰
‰
All valid marine species names on-line within 7 years
All known marine species listed in the Catalogue of Life
Global standards and protocols in species informatics
Species guides (descriptions and images) on-line
Species distributions on-line
Improved quality control in identification and taxonomy
Data archiving a standard ‘good’ practice
Electronic ‘publication’ integrated into science culture
Increased rate of species being described
New understandings of role of biodiversity in ecosystems
OBIS contacts
Mark Costello – Chair, coordination
Geoff Boxshall & Dennis Gordon
– data ‘rescue’ and taxonomy
Phoebe Zhang – portal function
James Wood – website, outreach
Karen Stocks – technical advice to new contributors
- how to use
- coming features
- how to contribute