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Marine Ecosystem Change WG

Mark Costello, Isabel Sousa Pinto, Carlo Heip, Gary Geller

Who we are

Linda Amaral Zettler Marine Biological Laboratory, USA yes Ward Appeltans OBIS (UNESCO IOC IODE) yes Patricio Bernal IUCN High Sea Initiative yes Peter Burkill Plymouth University, UK yes Francisco Chavez MBARI, USA yes Mark Costello University of Auckland, New Zealand yes Pat Halpin Duke University, USA no Carlo Heip NIOZ NL no Brian Helmuth University of South Carolina, USA no Nicolas Hoepffner JRC Ispra, Italy no Randy Kochevar Stanford University USA yes Pedro Martinez-Arbizu Senckenberg Institute, Germany yes David Obura CORDIO Katja Philippart NIOZ, Netherlands no Roland Pitcher CSIRO, Australia no Trevor Platt Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada Henry Ruhl National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, UK yes Isabel Sousa Pinto CIIMAR, U Porto, Portugal Marbef, Euromarine, EMBOS yes Louisa Wood UNEP-WCMC

Criteria for mBON Products

• Relevance to marine biodiversity
• Ready in 2 years, published by 2015
• Global (ideally) in scope
• Relevant to end-users (governments, IMO,

IUCN, CI, WWF, UNESCO, Big-NGO)

e.g. a product may bring together data, expertise, and/or analyses at a global scale to provide a publication, database, or resource

Existing global resources

• World Register of Marine Species and its experts - 95% complete,

associated content expanding, includes IAS, Red List status

• Ocean Biogeographic Information System - 120,000 species, 30 million

locations, 700 datasets

• World Database of Marine Protected Areas
• Aquamaps – ranges of >10,000 marine species
• IUCN Red Lists of Species and Ecosystems
• Continuous Plankton Recorder Database (going global)
• Marineregions.org: gazeteer and digital maps of marine regions (EEZ,

LME, FAO, ICES, IHO, MEOW, ..)

• Global Invasive Species Database and regional IAS databases

Candidate products

Product Lead or contact person World map of marine IAS occurrences and potential ranges Sergej Olenin Compendium of global environmental data layers Zeenatul Basher, Mark Costello, VLIZ Global map of marine ecosystems underpinned by environmental data using GEO Ecosystems approach Mark Costello Collection of population time-series datasets and monitoring stations To be determined Other? ?

An integrated information system

• n aquatic non-indigenous species

in Europe and neighboring regions

(AquaNIS)

and its application for bioinvasion process studies in the Baltic Sea

Aleksas Narščius1, Sergej Olenin1, Anastasija Zaiko1 & Dan Minchin1,2

1 Coastal Research and Planning

Institute, Klaipeda University, Lithuania

SECOND BALTIC REGIONAL WORKSHOP, 2012 Nov 27-28, Charlottenlund, Denmark

2 Marine Organism Investigations,

Killaloe Ballina, Co Clare, Ireland

AquaNIS

• The system stores and disseminates information on NIS introduction histories,

recipient regions, taxonomy, biological traits, impacts, and other relevant documented data.

Information support:

• Baltic Sea Alien Species

Database

• FP5 CA Ballast Waters
• FP6 ALARM
• FP6 DAISIE
• FP6 IMPASSE
• FP7 MEECE
• FP7 VECTORS

Developers (VECTORS):

1. Agnese Marchini (Italy) 2. Aleksas Narščius (Lithuania) 3. Anastasija Zaiko (Lithuania) 4. Anna Occhipinti (Italy) 5. Bella Galil (Israel) 6. Dan Minchin (Ireland) 7. Greta Srėbalienė (Lithuania) 8. Henn Ojaveer (Estonia) 9. Nadav Kallenberg (Israel)

• 10. Sergej Olenin (Lithuania)
• 11. Stephan Gollasch (Germany)
• ther contributors are welcome!

www.corpi.ku.lt/databases/aquanis

Marine ecosystems

• Environmentally relevant basis for

stratified (sampling) reporting on biodiversity

• Natural context for fisheries,

biogeography, and conservation

• Needs global map derived from data
• What are available ……..?

Marine regions

IHO Seas & oceans Longhurst pelagic ecosystems FAO fisheries Exclusive Economic Zones EEZ Marine Ecoregions of the World MEOW Large Marine Ecosystems LME Global Open Ocean & Deep-Sea GOODS Biogeographic realms

Global environmental data layers

Global data layer Sources Bottom Temperature layers for various depths up to 4000m NOAA PDC Bathymetry GEBCO8, CleanTopo, BlueMarbel Mean Sea level Anomaly AVISO Mean Dynamic Ocean Surface topography AVISO Near real-time Significant Wave Height and Wind-speed AVISO Ocean Surface Currents AVISO LGM Ice Extend For Land and Sea NOAA Paleoclimatology Present Global Ice Extend For Land and Sea NOAA Paleoclimatology Chlorophyll-a, monthly, annual, long-term averages etc. NOAA Ocean Color Products pH Bio-Oracle Calcite Concentration Bio-Oracle Photosynthetically Available Radiation Bio-Oracle Cloud Cover Bio-Oracle Diffuse Attenuation Bio-Oracle Global marine gravity NASA-GODC Human Impact on Marine Environment Halpern et al.2008 Threatened Red List Species Layers IUCN World Soil Database IIASA, Austria World Protected Area Regions Protected Planet-WCMC

Global environmental layers

Used by, and accessible from, Aquamaps and KGS Mapper for Species Distribution Modelling Bathymetry Distance from Land Temperature Surface and Bottom Salinity Surface and Bottom Ice concentration, Annual, Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter Average Wave Height Average Surface Wind speed Average Tides Tidal Range Dissolved O2, Annual mean bottom and surface Saturated O2, Annual mean bottom and surface Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU), Annual mean bottom and surface Silicate, Nitrate, Phosphate – uM, Annual mean bottom and surface Chlorophyll-a Mean, Minimum, Range, Standard Deviation, Sum

Other ideas

Potential Product Lead or contact person Permanent ocean pelagic features map Patricio Bernal GOBI Map of global patterns and predictor of microbial diversity Linda Amaral-Zettler Gridded global composites of present conditions for biomass, and body size distributions, habitats, for taxonomically specific groups Henry Ruhl? Monitoring indicators and variables (EBV) Brian Helmuth? Enhanced OBIS portal for analysis of above variables and biodiversity? Ward Appeltans Maps human pressure indicators Other BON WG? Marine Biodiversity Alliance of key organisations Carlo Heip, Isabel Pinto (WG5 members?) Standard globally-applicable classification of marine habitats Mark Costello +2 Other? ?

What can products be?

• Resources for use by policy makers (e.g.

funding, fisheries) and/or scientists

• Evidence based recommendations for

management organisations, e.g. GEO, IUCN, CBD, GBIF, etc.

• Open-access, online publications,
• New databases
• Enhanced portals to data