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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