Presentation given the Southern Ocean taxonomy workshop, organised by Cyril Gallut and Marc Eléaume (MNHN) in Concarneau, Brittany. The presentation covers a brief description of the activities of the Marine Biology Lab at ULB, the RECTO-vERSO projects (funded by the Belgian Science Policy Office), and some background of the available biodiversity informatics tools developed under the biodiversity.aq project.
6. • Biological models: echinoderms
(echinoidea, asteroidea), Adélie
penguins
• Approaches: information systems,
modelisation, GIS, tracking data,
integration of large data volumes
• Objectives: measure combined effects
of environmental disturbance at high
organisation levels, identify eco-
indicator species
Biodiversity informatics
7. T H E F O R C E H A S T W O S I D E S
R E C T O - V E R S O
v E R S O
vER SORECTO
8. PA R T N E R S
• ULB: Marine Biology Lab
• UGent: Marine Biology
• KUL: Laboratory of Biodiversity and Evolutionary Genomics
• VUB: Laboratory of Analytical and Environmental Chemistry, Marine
• ULg: Laboratoire d’Océanologie – Centre MARE
• RBINS: biodiversity.aq, MUMM
• UB, MNHN, BAS, AWI
9. S T R AT E G Y
• Multiple scales
• Regions exposed to contrasting changes
• Multiple standpoints
• Open Access to raw data
10. F U N D I N G A N D T I M E L I N E S
• 3.2 MEUR
• 2*4 years
• BELSPO, BRAIN-BE framework
• vERSO: 2014-2018
• RECTO: 2015-2019
11. W O R K PA C K A G E S ( C O M B I N E D )
• Connectivity and Adaptation
• Trophic Ecology
• Sensitivity and Resilience
• Integrative modelling
• Reconstruction of population histories and geographic distributions
• Macro-Ecology & Evolutionary Ecology
• Dispersal modelling & future scenarios
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J C R 2 0 1 6
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M C M U R D O 2 0 1 6
D D U 2 0 1 5
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Publications: 22
PhDs: 7
Postdocs: 5
15. Meet the (dream) team
• Anton Van de Putte
• Nabil Youdjou
• Henri Robert
• … Job vacancy launched in September
16. Just a bit of history
• IPY, SCAR, CAML
• SCAR-MarBIN, ANTABIF, ANTABIS
• First website launched in 2005
• => now all under one banner: biodiversity.aq
22. Register of Antarctic species
• RAMS Register of Antarctic Marine species
• http://www.marinespecies.org/rams/
• RAMS and WoRMS
• Backbone for biodiversity.aq, iOBIS
• Editorial Board: 59 experts from 18 countries
• 18,470 taxa and 10,294 species
• 81% taxonomically accepted
• Expansion into the terrestrial realm
RA(m)S