ChEssBase Online database for species from deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems integrated with OBIS Eva Ramirez-Llodra & Maria Baker National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK
Census of Marine Life: global network in over 70 nations engaged in a ten-year initiative (2000 – 2010) to assess and explain the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life in the oceans -- past, present, and future Background ChEssBase: ChEss database vents, seeps, whale & wood falls, OMZs OBIS: Web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species for the CoML global study of the biogeography of species from deep-water chemosynthetic habitats ChEss: global study of the biogeography of species from deep-water chemosynthetic habitats: field programme, database, O&E
ChEssBase development Relational dynamic web-based database built in MySQL Bio and geo-referenced Simple, but we hope it covers some basic uses for biologists Aim: central source of information for biological data from chemosynthetic habitats: which species occur where, from literature & PI sample info – open to all Jan. 2005: online on ChEss web site Aug. 2005: merged with InterRidge biological database Sept. 2005: integrated with OBIS 2005 – onwards: addition of sample data (now) & regular updates
area phylum family genus speciesendemicityspecimensamplecruise references photossite region institution habitat ChEssBase design kingdom class order subspecies authority biology habitat Sample info Site info LAT-LON
ChEssBase interfase > 700 species from 90 sites, ~1300 references
Requests for maintenance of ChEssBase New published data (new species, new sites, etc) Sample information (from cruises, in labs, etc) High resolution photos and video Desbruyères (Ifremer) Macdonald (Texas A&M) Smith (Uni. Hawaii)
Chair International Committee and Executive Officer: Mark J. Costello Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand OBIS: the legacy of CoML OBIS publishes primary data on distribution of marine species available from over 200 databases It facilitates data by: searching by species, higher taxa, time, location, depth, database mapping overlaying species distributions on ocean environments enables data capture for re-use
Only 1/3 of total described species available online (Costello & Vanden Berghe, MEPS 316, 2006)
Data by depth < 100 m depth 100 – 1000 m depth > 1000 m depth