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Mapping Life on Earth: Recent Progress with AquaMaps

Mapping Life on Earth: Recent Progress with AquaMaps. Rainer Froese IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany Teldap Conference, Taipei 2 March 2009. What are AquaMaps. Computer-generated distribution maps Based on environmental preferences of species and known occurrences

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Mapping Life on Earth: Recent Progress with AquaMaps

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  1. Mapping Life on Earth:Recent Progress withAquaMaps Rainer Froese IFM-GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany Teldap Conference, Taipei 2 March 2009

  2. What are AquaMaps • Computer-generated distribution maps • Based on environmental preferences of species and known occurrences • For eventually all species on Earth

  3. Who Does AquaMaps • Under the umbrella of the FishBase Consortium • With data from FishBase, SeaLifeBase, GBIF and OBIS • With support from Pew Charitable Trusts, European Commission, USGS, GBIF

  4. Who Does AquaMaps • Rainer Froese, IFM-GEOMAR, Coordinator • Kristin Kaschner, UBC, model development • Sven Kullander, NRM, extension to freshwater • Jonathan Ready, formerly NRM, implementation • Tony Rees, CSIRO, mapping tools • Paul Eastwood, CEFAS, valuation • Nina Garilao, IFM-GEOMAR, web programming • Josephine Rius Barile, WFC, database programming • Kathleen Reyes, WFC, map checking

  5. >10,000 Species in 2010 • Half of all marine fishes (~7,000) • All marine mammals • All marine reptiles (turtles, snakes) • Many seabirds (those that are predicted by the properties of the water) • Over 1,000 invertebrates • Important invasive species

  6. Whale shark (cosmopolitan)

  7. Examples from AquaMapsWhale shark (cosmopolitan)

  8. Examples from AquaMaps Blackfin spiderfish (continental shelves)

  9. Examples from AquaMaps:Global Species Richnesswww.aquamaps.org

  10. Examples from AquaMaps • Click anywhere in the Oceans • Show Avanced Users list • Show ‘potential invasives’ • Use Gadus morhua to show suitable habitat and 2050 range

  11. Tools: Equatorial Species Richness Transect across the Indo-Pacific

  12. Tools :Where to Place an MPA

  13. Tools Mnemiopsis leidyi (invasive Black Sea)

  14. ToolsMnemiopsis leidyi (invasive Black Sea)

  15. Other Tools from AquaMaps • What lives in my Bay? • What species may invade my coast? • Where shall I put an MPA? • Deep-water biodiversity: Cold Spots • Checklists by Ecosystem and Country

  16. Latest Developments • Include more species and improve automatic maps, e.g. through ‘country points’ • Move AquaMaps to a grid environment • Add more GIS capabilities (move to MapServer) • Add a ‘sandbox’ where advanced users can create their own maps and play with layers • Increase resolution • Add ‘qualified’ species richness maps, e.g. with phylogenic uniqueness

  17. No VaporWare • www.aquamaps.org • www.fishbase.org • www.sealifebase.org • www.speciesbase.mobi Thank You

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