2. VISION / MISSION
VISION:
To be the most comprehensive Gateway to the
World’s Ocean Biodiversity and Biogeographic
data and
information required to address pressing
coastal
and world ocean concerns
MISSION:
To build and maintain a global alliance that
collaborates with scientific communities to
facilitate free and open access to, and application
of, biodiversity and biogeographic data and
information on marine life.
3. CBD-Aichi 2020Biodiversity Targets
Target 19
By 2020, knowledge, the science base and
technologies relating to biodiversity, its
values, functioning, status and trends, and
the consequences of its loss, are improved,
widely shared and transferred, and applied.
4. iOBIS
OBIS node I
GE-OBIS
SG-OBIS
8 Task Teams
OBIS node II
OBIS node II
Science TT
Data providers
Taxon. TT
Training
TT
OBIS node III
OBIS node III
Data providers
Data providers
Data TT
OBIS node III
Data providers
Data providers
Data providers
Tech. TT
...
Data providers
6. OBIS secretariat
Coordination of the global network
Communication, awareness
Support to Member States
Capacity building, standards, best practices
Integrated database
Data access, services and tools
Quality assurance
8. Progress!
We are filling in the gaps
2013 has around 2.7x more depth records (almost 19Million, cf. almost 7M)
compared to 2009, and the range of sample depths represented has
increased slightly, from 0-10670m in 2009 to 0-10900m now.
9. Benefit Sharing: data repatriation
records not from nat. OBIS node
records from nat. OBIS node
100%
35316
2178
18823
5375
90%
25848
10936
105964
80%
743579
70%
442862
2573860
60%
50%
121300
310673
102293
613595
2104304
806219
967159
182042
40%
23016
102745
52498
419965
30%
1106458
20%
266302
1327640
10%
8951
9349
0%
Belgium S-Korea
Japan
Brazil
Argentina Australia Canada
USA
9
New
S-Africa
Zealand
India
China
0
0
0
France Germany Norway
11. Developing guidelines on standards and
best practices (QC tools)
Tools for geographic quality control
Example dataset “Marine Turtles”:
sightings and strandings of marine turtles around the coast of UK and Ireland”
Outliers due to missing of minus sign. Corrections made after consultation data provider.
12. Developing guidelines on standards and
best practices (QC tools)
Tools for quality control based on
environmental/habitat parameter
ranges
Salinity
temperature
depth
28. Compare number of records to biodiversity
~ 64000 records used to
calculated biodiv, for 1984
29. Invasive species
Ensis directus (razor shell)
Aichi Target 9
By 2020, invasive alien species
and pathways are identified
and prioritized, priority
species are controlled or
eradicated, and measures are
in place to manage pathways
to prevent their introduction
and establishment.
Source: OBIS, 2013
35. Discovering trends in community
structure/species composition
Major problems:
Data gaps: temporal, geographic and
taxonomic scope
Sampling bias
Few long-term time series data
36. Discovering trends in community
structure/species composition
Major problems:
Most species are rare, or difficult to observe
Still many new species discoveries
creates noise in trends
Which species are most common, and do have
enough data?
37. Defining (relative) commonness of
species
For each species:
1. Nr of observations
2. Nr of individuals per observation
3. Nr of observations per dataset
4. Nr of datasets
5. Nr of geographical cells
6. Temporal frequency of the observations
Normalizing => relative commonness.
Create score or rank by taxonomic group
Make selection of species for which we do have
enough data to detect trends
38. Pisces, by different ranks, 2000s
1
Rhi typ
Lim lim
Lim lim
Squ aca
Lim lim
Lim lim
2
Gad mor
Lim lim
Gad mor
Gad mor
Gad mor
Gad mor
Gad mor
3
Clu har
Gad mor
Clu har
Mel aeg
Hip pla
Clu har
Clu har
4
Mer mer
Thu ori
Mer mer
Clu har
Clu har
Mer mer
Mer mer
5
High variation
among
terms, so each
term
separately will
yield different
ranks
Lim lim
Mel aeg
Mel aeg
Mel aeg
Ple pla
Mel aeg
Mel aeg
Mel aeg
6
Ple pla
Clu har
Ple pla
Hip pla
Gly cyn
Ple pla
Ple pla
7
8
9
10
Eut gur
Pla fle
Hip pla
Thy atu
Xip gla
Spr spr
Thu alb
Scy can
Mic kit
Oph elo
Mer min
Tri mer
Cal lyr
Aci tra
Tri esm
Thu ala
Tra tra
Sco pou
Mic sco
Ple pla
Hip pla
Mer mer
Xip gla
Thu ala
Scy can
Eut gur
Pte vol
Pla fle
Squ aca
Gym cer
Thumin
alb
Tri mer
Mer mol
Mol kit
Mic lyr
Cal
Mic pou
Gly cyn
Spr spr
Tra tra
Thy sco
Sco atu
Oph elo
Enc sco
Myo cim
Mul sur
Tri esm
Eut gur
Pla fle
Hip pla
Spr spr
Thu alb
Scy can
Xip gla
Mic kit
Thy atu
Mer mer
Tri min
Cal lyr
Tri esm
Tra tra
Thu sco
ala
Sco pou
Mic
Pol vir
Squ aca
Enc cim
Gly sco
Myo cyn
Lop pis
Mer mer
Scy can
Eut gur
Pla fle
Thu ala
Squ aca
Thu alb
Xip gla
Tri min
Mer mer
Mic kit
Mol mol
Cal lyr
Mic pou
Spr spr
Gly cyn
Tra tra
Sco sco
Enc sco
Myo cim
Mul sur
Tri esm
Myo sco
Sco sco
Cyc lum
Zeu fab
Enc cim
Pol vir
Mul sur
Tri min
Tra tra
Cal lyr
Lop pis
Lim lim
Scy can
Ple pla
Eut gur
Mer mer
Mer mer
Mic kit
Pla fle
Eut gur
Pla fle
Hip pla
Thy atu
Xip gla
Spr spr
Thu alb
Scy can
Mic kit
Oph elo
Mer min
Tri mer
Cal lyr
Aci tra
Tri esm
Thu ala
Tra tra
Sco pou
Mic sco
Eut gur
Pla fle
Hip pla
Thy atu
Spr spr
Xip gla
Thu alb
Scy can
Mic kit
Oph elo
Mer min
Tri mer
Cal lyr
Aci tra
Tri esm
Thu ala
Tra tra
Sco pou
Mic sco
Pol vir
Squ aca
Pol vir
Squ aca
Zeu fab
Zeu fab
Pol vir
Lop pis
Thy atu
Cyc lum
Enc cyn
Gly cim
Myo sco
Lop pis
Thu ori
Rhi fab
Zeu typ
Enc cyn
Gly cim
Myo sco
Lop pis
Mul sur
Mol lum
Cyc mol
Mic pou
Spr spr
Tri esm
Mol mol
Pte vol
Oph elo
Thu alb
Mul sur
Gymmol
Mol cer
Cyc lum
Mul sur
Gymmol
Mol cer
Cyc lum
Oph elo
Pte vol
Thu vol
Pte ori
n 1 deg
n MEOW
20
Pol vir
Squ aca
100
200
500
Enc cyn
Gly cim
Myo sco
Lop pis
Thu ori
Rhi fab
Zeu typ
Mul sur
Gymmol
Mol cer
Cyc lum
Aci pis
Zeu tra
Pol vir
Lop fab
Cyc lum
Pte vol
Pte vol
1000
Xip elo
Oph gla
Thu ala
Thy atu
Pte vol
Rhi typ
Rhi fab
Zeu typ
Gym ori
Thu cer
Aci tra
5000
n records
s ranks
n records2
s ranks2
n datasets
44. CBD Aichi Target 11
10% of coastal and marine areas are
conserved/managed sustainably by
2020…
EBSA
VME
PSSA
Natura2000
MPA
UNESCO WHS
UNESCO Biospheres
…
45. CBD-COP10 listed OBIS as a key source of
information for the identification of Ecologically or
Biologically Significant Areas (EBSAs) part of CBD
Areas of high biodiversity
Areas of special importance
for the life history of a
species
Areas of significant naturalness
Areas of
uniqueness or rarity
51. Caribbean Marine biodiversity
~12,100 species
Taxonomic group
Vegetation
Macroalgae
Invertebrates Sponges
Corals and related
Polychaete worms
Molluscs
Crustaceans
Echinoderms
Vertebrates
Fish
TOTAL
~62% represented by molluscs, crustaceans, and fish
# species
561
519
994
671
3032
2916
438
1539
10670
%
4.6
4.3
8.2
5.6
25.1
24.1
3.6
12.7
88.3
52. Caribbean: species accumulation curve
Echinoderms, fishes, mollusks
Fishes: 1539 species
Mollusks: 3032 species
The “best known” groups
are far from reaching an
asymptote: much more to
discover
Echinoderms: 438 species
Not much more to discover?
Unlikely….
63. OBIS & CMA
OBIS could be the platform to publish and distribute
biodiversity data
Global OBIS can provide more
biodiversity/biogeographic data than a single
country/institution
Data providers keep the ownership of the data (OBIS
receives the rights to publish)
OBIS can provide dedicated webservices for the CMA
OBIS can provide national/regional reporting tools
(indicators on biodiversity, species richness, trends
and time series)
65. Join OBIS
OBIS node
National Oceanographic Data Centre
Associate Data Unit (ADU)
Or become data provider to existing OBIS node
Contact Eduardo Klein (Caribbean OBIS node
manager)
Notes de l'éditeur
When looking at each term separately, there is a high variation in ranks, with the same fish species listed in the top 10 down below to rank 5000.
We repeated this for ten different taxonomic groups
So when you look at Nr of records, the fulmar had high peaks in the 1990s.
But when you combine all the terms, the Fulmar is losing its common species status among the other seabirds.
In Nagoya, in October 2010, the 193 Members States of the Convention on Biological Diversity requested Member States to further enhance globally networked scientific efforts, such as OBIS, to continue to update a comprehensive and accessible global database of all forms of life in the sea, and further assess and map the distribution and abundance of species in the sea. They also explicitly called upon IOC to further facilitate availability and inter-operability of the best available marine and coastal biodiversity data sets and information across global, regional and national scales. The CBD secretariat is organizing a series of regional workshops to identify the most Ecologically or Biologically Significant marine Areas (EBSAs). OBIS is used as one of the major sources for data on the diversity and distribution of marine biodiversity, such as marine mammals, reptiles, IUCN red list species, but also shallow and deepwater biodiversity. On this slide you see a biodiversity index map provided for the identification of EBSAs in the Caribbean region.
In Nagoya, in October 2010, the 193 Members States of the Convention on Biological Diversity requested Member States to further enhance globally networked scientific efforts, such as OBIS, to continue to update a comprehensive and accessible global database of all forms of life in the sea, and further assess and map the distribution and abundance of species in the sea. They also explicitly called upon IOC to further facilitate availability and inter-operability of the best available marine and coastal biodiversity data sets and information across global, regional and national scales. The CBD secretariat is organizing a series of regional workshops to identify the most Ecologically or Biologically Significant marine Areas (EBSAs). OBIS is used as one of the major sources for data on the diversity and distribution of marine biodiversity, such as marine mammals, reptiles, IUCN red list species, but also shallow and deepwater biodiversity. On this slide you see a biodiversity index map provided for the identification of EBSAs in the Caribbean region.