OBIS-SEAMAP: The World Data Center for Marine Mammal, Sea Bird, and Sea Turtle Distributions

Halpin, Patrick N.; Read, Andrew J.; Fujioka, Ei; Best, Ben; Donnelly, Ben; Hazen, Lucie; Kot, Connie Y.; Urian, Kim W.; LaBrecque, Erin; DiMatteo, Andrew; Cleary, Jesse; Good, Caroline; Crowder, Larry B.; Hyrenbach, K. David

doi:10.5670/oceanog.2009.42

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“…A similar approach has been followed by the thematic OBIS Node OBIS Seamap (e.g. Halpin et al, 2009;Read et al, 2011). This way, both portals have created added value and provide a higher precision of the data which cannot be transferred to OBIS due to the limited scheme for data exchange.…”

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Analysing the content of the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS): available data, limitations, prospects and a look at the future

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The European Ocean Biogeographic Information System-EurOBIS-is an integrated data system developed by the Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) for the EU Network of Excellence "Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning" (MarBEF) in 2004. Its principle aims are to centralise the largely scattered biogeographical data on marine species collected by European institutions and to make these quality-controlled data freely available and easily accessible. It is in essence a distributed system in which individual datasets go through a series of quality control procedures before they are integrated into one large consolidated database. EurOBIS is freely available online at www.eiuobis.org, where marine biogeographical data-with a focus on tax onomy, temporal and spatial distribution-can be consulted and downloaded for analyses. Over the last 6 years, EurOBIS has collected 228 datasets contrib uted by more than 75 institutes, representing over 13.6 million distribution records of which almost 12.5 million records are species level identifications. It is now the largest online searchable public source of European marine biological data, holding biogeo graphical information on 26,801 species and 9,221 genera. EurOBIS acts as the European node of OBIS, the Ocean Biogeographic Information System of the Census of Marine Life (CoML). EurOBIS shares its data with OBIS, which in its turn shares its content with the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF). This article describes the status of the Euro pean Ocean Biogeographic Information System, identifies data gaps, possible applications, uses and limitations. It also formulates a strategy for the growth and improvement of the system and wants to appeal for more contributions.

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Analysing the content of the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS): available data, limitations, prospects and a look at the future

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“…This open approach to software is contrary to the "black-box" approach offered by many existing proprietary platforms, but is the same model adopted by Tagbase [42], and the R Programing Language [24] which sits at the core of OzTrack's analysis tools. An open system controlled, developed and managed by the global animal tracking community increases the potential for online facilities like OzTrack to evolve in parallel with advances in biotelemetry research.…”

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“…A number of Web-based animal telemetry data repositories are currently available for this purpose. These include Movebank [23], OBIS-SEAMAP (Ocean Biogeographic Information SystemSpatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations) [24], Wildlife Tracking (formerly Seaturtle.org) [17], Wireless Remote Animal Monitoring [25] and the European Roe Deer project [26]. Data within these repositories are stored in a way which permits multi-user support and data sharing, a secure and consistent storage system and analysis and filtering tools of varying complexity.…”

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An open Web-based system for the analysis and sharing of animal tracking data

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Background: Improvements in telemetry technology are allowing us to monitor animal movements with increasing accuracy, precision and frequency. The increased complexity of the data collections, however, demands additional software and programming skills to process, store and disseminate the datasets. Recent focus on data availability has also heightened the need for sustainable data management solutions to ensure data integrity and provide longer term access. In the last ten years, a number of online facilities have been developed for the archiving, processing and sharing of telemetry data. These facilities offer secure storage, multi-user support and analysis tools and are a step along the way to improving data access, long-term data preservation and science communication. While these software platforms promote data sharing, access to the majority of the data and to the software behind these systems remains restricted. In this paper, we present a comprehensive, highly accessible and fully transparent software facility for animal movement data. Results: The online system we developed (http://oztrack.org) offers a set of robust, up-to-date and accessible tools for managing, processing, visualising and analysing animal location data and linking these outputs with environmental datasets. As OzTrack uses exclusively free and open-source software, and the source code is available online, the system promotes open access not only to data but also to the tools and software underpinning the system.

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“…duke. edu) has been accumulating data on marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles from around the world and providing tools to interactively explore data in a spatially and temporally flexible platform (Halpin et al 2006(Halpin et al , 2009. All data in the OBIS-SEAMAP thematic node of the OBIS network are shared using the international OBIS portal operated under the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) of UNESCO-IOC.…”

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“…For the delineation of marine protected areas or assessments of criteria for marine spatial planning to be practical, biological data beyond national jurisdiction need to be further filtered based on target taxa in a region of interest during the period of time in question. These interactive tools are implemented on the OBIS-SEAMAP website (Halpin et al 2009). …”

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Spatio-temporal assessments of biodiversity in the high seas

Fujioka¹,

Halpin²

2014

Endang. Species. Res.

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Biological diversity is one of the most important measures for marine conservation in the high seas. However, data and tools to assess and quantify biodiversity in the high seas are still not well developed. This hinders the development of the open-access tools necessary to assess biodiversity across space and time. Here, we examine prototype online mapping and visualization tools we developed within the OBIS-SEAMAP data center, a thematic node of the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS) specializing in marine mammal, seabird and sea turtle observations, to facilitate spatiotemporal assessments of biodiversity in the high seas. Our aims are to (1) summarize basic data needs for assessing biodiversity issues in the high seas; (2) discuss technical challenges to address such needs and establish a publicly accessible framework for biodiversity assessments; and (3) demonstrate how our prototype framework facilitates these assessments using a preliminary case study. We anticipate that this will serve as a model for marine researchers and managers to develop similar frameworks or improve the existing ones for ecological assessments. Of special importance is the application of these assessment tools to emerging high seas biodiversity identification processes such as the UN Convention on Biological Diversity, Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas.

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OBIS-SEAMAP: The World Data Center for Marine Mammal, Sea Bird, and Sea Turtle Distributions

Cited by 125 publications

References 7 publications

Analysing the content of the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS): available data, limitations, prospects and a look at the future

Analysing the content of the European Ocean Biogeographic Information System (EurOBIS): available data, limitations, prospects and a look at the future

An open Web-based system for the analysis and sharing of animal tracking data

Spatio-temporal assessments of biodiversity in the high seas

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