antarctic biodiversity information networks: lessons learnt and upcoming challenges
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This presentation was given during the Belgian IPY symposium, in May 2010.The Southern Ocean ecosystems have an exceptional ecological, biogeographic and political value. We argue that to efficiently understand and protect these ecosystems, it is vital to maintain an effective mechanism for the exchange of scientific information on Antarctic biodiversity. These should be widely disseminated, immediately and freely accessible and carefully checked in order to establish sound management of the Antarctic ecosystems. SCAR’s Marine Biodiversity Information Network (www.SCARMarBIN.be), is an example of such a mechanism, which publishes this information through the Internet. SCARMarBIN is home to the first Register of Antarctic Marine Species (RAMS), available online and constantly updated by a panel of 70 taxonomic experts. Using a geographic information system, SCAR-MarBIN also allows users to view and download reference data on marine organisms. This initiative, funded by the Belgian Science Policy (BELSPO), allows for the first time to quantify the diversity and distribution of life in Antarctica in a wide variety of taxonomic, temporal or spatial contexts. SCAR-MarBIN is also a key tool for the detection of impacts due to global change and to highlight areas of the Southern Ocean that require special protection.As part of the legacy of the International Polar Year (IPY), various initiatives are working closely to document the biodiversity, ecosystem services and evolutionary processes of the Southern Ocean. The creation of a freely accessible archival system should be considered a top priority, especially during the International Year of Biodiversity (2010). It is our responsibility towards future generations.TRANSCRIPT
Antarctic biodiversity information networks
lessons learnt and upcoming challenges
Bruno Danis, Claude De Broyer
www.scarmarbin.be
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Antarctic Biodiversity
• Highly adapted to extreme environment
• High level of endemism
• Mostly marine
• Estimations: possibly 20.000 species
• Under-studied (especially the deep sea)
• Probably very sensitive to CC
• but where’s the data?
Wednesday 26 May 2010
SCAR-MarBIN
• www.scarmarbin.be
• Main funding: Belgian science Policy office
• International Polar Year 2007/08
• Census of Antarctic Marine Life
• Ocean Biogeographic Information System
• Global Biodiversity Information Network
Marine Biodiversity Information Network
Wednesday 26 May 2010
ANTABIF
• www.biodiversity.aq
• Funding: Belgian science Policy office
• International Year of Biodiversity
• Evolution and Biodiversity in Antarctica
• Global Biodiversity Information Network
• Australian Antarctic Division
Antarctic Biodiversity Information Facility
Wednesday 26 May 2010
• Build a network
• Offer free and open access to data and technology
• Expose all the (biodiversity) data and metadata
• Remain community-driven
• Adopt strong standardization
• Work for science, conservation, management
Philosophy
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Who’s in?
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[results]: webportal
taxonomy, biogeography
vizualisation
open access
725,000 visitors
5,075,000 hits
32,000,000 dld records
V2alpha coming up
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[results]: RAMS
all taxa
all species
valid species
0 3.750 7.500 11.250 15.000
• The first RAMS
• Board of 60+ editors
• Feeds WoRMS, CoL and EoL
• 16,475 taxa
• 9,346 species
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[results]: ANTOBIS
1,088,044 records167 datasets
106 geodatasets5,235 taxa
Feeds OBIS, GBIFDownloadable
WebGISWebservices
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[projects] a few examples
ANTABIF (www.biodiversity.aq)
SCAR-MarBIN V2 alpha
Antarctic Field Guides
Georeferenced genetic data
Polar Macroscope Synthesis
Antarctic Biodiversity Atlas
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[apps]: conservation
World Summit on Sustainable Development, 2001: “establish comprehensive, effectively managed, and ecologically representative networks of marine protected areas by 2012”
By 2010, collate relevant data for as many of the 11 priority regions as possible (and other regions as appropriate), and characterise each region in terms of biodiversity patterns and ecosystem processes, physical environmental features and human activities.
By end 2011, submit proposals for candidate areas for protection to the CCAMLR Scientific Committee.
By 2012, submit proposals on a representative system of Southern Ocean MPAs to the CCAMLR Commission.
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[apps]: modelingBivalve richness 10 environmental variables
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[apps]: detecting change
Atkinson et al 2004
1976 - 2003
Over 2-fold decrease / 10 years
Over 2-fold increase / 10 years
Cope or adaptMove (deeper, south)Go extinct
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[apps]: expedition design
Limopsis predictionmodel fits actual datamap shows where to go
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[apps]: expedition design
Limopsis predictionmodel fits actual datamap shows where to go
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Strugnell J. British Antarctic Survey
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[apps]: data exploration
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[main] Challenges
Quickly evolving needs from the community
Gaps in the data: taxonomy (microbes, kinetics??), spatial, temporal, institutional, IPY data
Fear to publish (but happy to use)
The community needs to value the publication of data
Funding: hard to make a DB look sexy...
Wednesday 26 May 2010
• Art III-1c of the Antarctic Treaty: “... scientific observations and results from Antarctica shall be exchanged and made freely available”
• IPY: “...the Joint Committee requires that data are made available fully, freely, openly and on the shortest feasible timeframe”
Data policy framework
Wednesday 26 May 2010
[vision] The future
• SMB awarded IPY grand prize for data sharing
• Polar Information Commons (PIC): framework long-term stewardship of polar data
• ongoing applications: fill the gaps, strategic conservation planning, optimized expedition design,...
• flying across disciplines... could Belgium lead the way?
Wednesday 26 May 2010
Questions?
Griffiths HJ. British Antarctic Survey
www.biodiversity.aq
Wednesday 26 May 2010