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Coastal Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) and the Ecosystem Thematic Network (ETN) Christopher J. Madden NatureServe March 2008 Applications of the Marine Standard Format • Identification of areas of Critical Habitat • • • • • • and Biodiversity Endemic species Threatened species Hot spots Delineate MPAs Locate Essential Fish Habitat Ecosystem Based Management Advantages of the Marine Standard Format • Participate in a large data network • Seamless integration with Freshwater and Terrestrial ETNs • Umbrella classification that incorporates or translates all member datasets CMECS Suite of Classification Tools Biophysical Classification Benthic Cover Classification Water Column Classification Geoform Classification CMECS-GEOSS Integration • • • • • • Hierarchical within Biogeographic regions Nested Similar to a species taxonomy Bio-physical Spatial from a meters to contintental scale Inclusive of and translates with other classifications Large Marine Ecosystems 0-200m Biogeochemical Ecoregions > 200m CMECS III Hierarchy w/in Ecoregion Ecological Region L1 Ecological Region Fresh Water Influenced Estuary EstuarineInfluenced Intertidal/Benthic Intertidal/Benthic Bare/Colonized/ Vegetated Bare/Colonized/ Vegetated Marine L2 Regime Nearshore Marine Neritic Oceanic Intertidal/Benthic Intertidal/Benthic Intertidal/Benthic Bare/Colonized/ Vegetated Bare/Colonized/ Vegetated Bare/Colonized/ Vegetated Vagile Species & Biological Associations L3 System L4 Subsystem L5 Cover L6 Class L7 Subclass L8 Biotope Complex Biotope Biotope Biotope Biotope Biotope L9 Biotope Level Themes Ecoregion Climate Regime, Biogeography Regime/ System Salinity/Enclosure/Total Depth Sub system Intertidal/Benthic (Depth) Cover Biological Cover/Bare Class Biophysical Structure Subclass Biophysical Fine Structure, Substrate Biotope Complex Dominant Biology Type/Association Biotope Specific Biology Spatial Scale is an implicit classifier at each level Modifiers for Form, Energy, Light, Physico-Chemistry, Anthropogenics Census of Marine Life and OBIS Data Model Linkages • OBIS will add CMECS habitat designation for each data set. (short term) • OBIS incorporating CMECS into its data model to allow habitat designations for all data records. (long term) • The OBIS portal will have a direct link to CMECS website. • OBIS-NatureServe working to unify terminology across IMCRA, EUNIS and CMECS San Diego Supercomputer Center • OBIS Ontology Mapping Project • Translation and crosswalk via the “Wrapper” Physical Ecological multi-dimensional environment species & biology classification units Classification Hierarchy A useful tool for comparing classifications NatureServe CMECS website http://www.natureserve.org/getData/CMECS/index.htm NatureServe CMECS website http://www.natureserve.org/getData/CMECS/index.htm Conclusion • Marine ETN Website will go live with the draft Standard Format late March 2008 • IABIN is conducting a training workshop April 2008 • Several LatAm countries are contributing data to the network • We invite additional projects from the Caribbean Basin http://biogeodb.stri.si.edu/bioinformatics/I ABIN/FormatoEstandar/formatomarino.php
