Download BIOCEAN – A new database for deep-sea benthic ecological

Ocean Biodiversity Informatics
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Hamburg - Novembre 2004
BIOCEAN
Deep sea benthic ecological data
Marie-Claire FABRI
[email protected]
Ifremer DRO/EP BP70 29280 PLOUZANE
http://www.ifremer.fr/isi/biocean
France
The Biocean database was designed to gather the extremely large volume of data
collected from different deep-sea ecosystem studies conducted by Ifremer's
department "Environnement Profond". This database comes in a six application
package; two of them are used onboard research vessels to collect operational data,
while the others are used to link with a core database back on land.
Organisation of the Biocean Application
On board ships
Back on Land
Alamer Cruise Log
GESCOL
Collection
Management
« Echange Terre / Mer »
Data Import/Export
BIOCLASS
Taxonomic Nomenclature Management
Operations
Date
Commentary
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Positions
Data
Files
BIOCEAN
Core Database
Relational
Database
(ORACLE)
Alamer Dive Log
Metadata and
Operations - Results
• Video stills
• Samples (fauna,
water, sediments)
• Measurements
• Moorings
DONENV
Environmental
Data Capture
Operations
Commentary
Positions
The two Alamer applications are designed for data
input directly on board research vessels, with no link to
the core database. Echange Terre/Mer permits data
exchange between Alamer files and the Biocean core
database. Gescol follows faunal samples through their
identification process. Bioclass helps to manage the
taxonomic nomenclature. Donenv manages results of
environmental analyses (e.g. temperature, chemistry).
© Ifremer
Water Sampling
around the shrimps ATOS 2001
(Mid Atlantic Ridge - Rainbow)
Internet Access to data
http://www.ifremer.fr/isi/biocean
http://www.iobis.org
Examples of studies that can be developped using BIOCEAN data:
• Biodiversity of faunal assemblages
• Biogeographic inter-sites comparisons
• Faunal distribution as related to physico-chemical conditions
• Temporal intra-site evolution of environmental parameters and faunal composition
• Impact studies of global changes in deep-sea ecosystems
• Impact studies for deep-sea mining, oil exploitation and fisheries
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