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WG5 Marine Ecosystems Members

Present Not present Linda Amaral Zettler Pat Halpin Ward Appeltans Carlo Heip Patricio Bernal Brian Helmuth Peter Burkill Nicolas Hoepffner Francisco Chavez David Obura Mark Costello Katja Philippart Pedro Martinez-Arbizu Roland Pitcher Henry Ruhl Trevor Platt Isabel Sousa Pinto Louisa Wood Randy Kochevar Benefited from Ian Poiner, Ben Halpern, Robert Holt, Damon Stanwell-Smith, Sheila Vergara, Megan Morikawa

Aichi Targets: all contribute directly to # 19;

• ne directly to Target 9 (invasive species)

and several to 11 (MPA planning).

Product Lead or contact person Scope By end 2012

• 1. Annual Global (CPR plankton) ocean

Ecological Status Report Peter Burkill Open ocean, pelagic, Plankton By October 2013

• 2. Assessment of population time-series

datasets and monitoring stations Anthony Richardson, Carlos Duarte All

• 3. Gaps maps: where there is and is not

ground-truth data for marine biodiversity over time; by country and/or sea or region; by ecology Ward Appeltans (OBIS) All

• 4. Global bacterial richness assessment

map and link to ecosystem function and services Linda Amaral-Zettler Bacteria, Pelagic to 200m

• 5. Compendium of global environmental

data layers (models) including future scenarios on a website Henry Ruhl, Mark Costello, Pat Halpin, VLIZ, IODE, i- Marine All, chlorophyll

• 6. Permanent ocean pelagic habitat

features map Patricio Bernal, Peter Miller Pelagic, chlorophyll

• 7. Descriptions of ocean environmental

and species data (and hotspots) that inform EBSA Pat Halpin All

By October 2014

• 8. Plan for how to monitor ocean biodiversity

Francisco Chavez, Ian Poiner, Henry Ruhl & WG All

• 9. Future marine benthic biodiversity (spatial

extent, biomass) Henry Ruhl Benthic fauna 10. Global map of marine ecosystems underpinned by environmental data using GEO Ecosystems approach, overlaid by MPA & biogeography Mark Costello, Zeenatul Basher, VLIZ All 11. World map of marine IAS occurrences and potential ranges Sergej Olenin Coastal IAS 12. Deep sea and open ocean biogeography Pedro Martinez Benthic fauna

GEO BON WG WG 5 link 1 genomics Marine microbial genetics (Linda) 2 monitoring EBV (Henry Ruhl) 3 Land ecosystems Marine ecosystem (Mark) 4 freshwater GWOS Coastal marine (Isabel) 6 Ecosystem services Marine (Patricio) 7 Modelling Marine environmental data (Henry, Mark) 8 Data integration OBIS (Ward) 9 Indicators Aichi Targets (marine product leaders)

TIME-TABLE

January 2013 Finalise Products Mid 2013 Secure funding for products that need it February 2013 WG bimonthly conference calls begin October 2013 WG meeting in Europe March 2014 Contributions to GBO4 October 2014 WG meeting in China at World Conference on Marine Biodiversity November 2014 Contributions to CBD COP12 Website – with GEO BON? Request GEO to formally recognise national funders and institutions Funding 4 WG members to explore funding options for meetings and products Future Consider new members for succession planning, develop products, and ensure geographic coverage