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ChEssBase

ChEssBase Online database for species from deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems integrated with OBIS. Eva Ramirez-Llodra & Maria Baker National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK. Background.

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ChEssBase

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  1. ChEssBase Online database for species from deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems integrated with OBIS Eva Ramirez-Llodra & Maria Baker National Oceanography Centre Southampton, UK

  2. Background • ChEss:global study of the biogeography of species from deep-water chemosynthetic habitats: field programme, database, O&Ewww.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess • 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 www.coml.org • ChEssBase: ChEss database  vents, seeps, whale & wood falls, OMZs www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess/database/database.html • OBIS: Web-based provider of global geo-referenced information on marine species for the CoML www.iobis.org

  3. • Jan. 2005: online on ChEss web site • Aug. 2005: merged with InterRidge biological database • Sept. 2005: integrated with OBIS 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 • 2005 – onwards: addition of sample data (now) & regular updates

  4. ChEssBase design phylum kingdom family class order genus endemicity species specimen sample cruise subspecies authority biology habitat Sample info photos habitat site institution Site info LAT-LON references region area

  5. ChEssBase interfase > 700 species from 90 sites, ~1300 references

  6. 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 http://www.soc.soton.ac.uk/chess/database/database.html Desbruyères (Ifremer) Smith (Uni. Hawaii) Macdonald(Texas A&M)

  7. OBIS: the legacy of CoML • OBIS publishes primary data on distribution of marine species available from over 200 databases www.iobis.org • 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 Chair International Committee and Executive Officer: Mark J. Costello m.costello@auckland.ac.nz Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand

  8. Only 1/3 of total described species available online(Costello & Vanden Berghe, MEPS 316, 2006)

  9. Data by depth < 100 m depth 100 – 1000 m depth > 1000 m depth

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