A5019732890- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Marine and fisheries research
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Research Data Management Practices
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Data Analysis with R
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Education, Healthcare and Sociology Research
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Subterranean biodiversity and taxonomy
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Advanced Computational Techniques and Applications
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Semantic Web and Ontologies
Flanders Marine Institute
2015-2023
Ghent University
2022-2023
This paper reviews the utility and availability of biological ecological traits for marine species so as to prioritise development a world database on traits. In addition, 'status' conservation, that is, whether they are introduced or invasive, fishery aquaculture interest, harmful, used an indicator, were reviewed because these attributes particular interest society. Whereas enduring characteristic and/or population, status may vary geographically over time. Criteria selecting could be...
Abstract A new assessment of the global biodiversity decapod Crustacea (to 31 December 2022) records 17,229 species in 2,550 genera and 203 families. These figures are derived from a well-curated dataset maintained on online platform DecaNet, subsidiary World Register Marine Species (WoRMS). Distinct phases recognised discovery process (as measured by descriptions) corresponding to major historical geopolitical time periods, with current rate descriptions being more than three times higher...
The World Register of Marine species (WoRMS) has been established for a decade. early history the database involved compilation existing global and regional registers. This aggregation, combined with changes to data types changing needs WoRMS users, resulted in an evolution data-entry consistency over time. With task aggregating accepted names all marine approaching completion, our focus shifted improving quality held while keeping pace addition > 2000 new described annually. paper...
A major historical challenge for the management of anthropogenic introductions species has been absence a globally standardised system nomenclature.For over decade, World Register Marine Species (WoRMS) provided taxonomically authoritative classification and designation currently accepted names all known marine species.However, WoRMS mainly focuses on taxonomy does not specifically address introductions.Here, we introduce Introduced (WRiMS), database directly linked to that includes...
Abstract Traits have become a crucial part of ecological and evolutionary sciences, helping researchers understand the function an organism's morphology, physiology, growth life history, with effects on fitness, behaviour, interactions environment ecosystem processes. However, measuring, compiling analysing trait data comes data‐scientific challenges. We offer 10 (mostly) simple rules, some detailed extensions, as guide in making critical decisions that consider entire cycle data. This...
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2017. WoRMS is a unique database: there no comparable global database for marine species, which driven by large, expert community, supported Data Management Team and can rely on permanent host institute, dedicated to keeping online. Over the past ten years, content has grown steadily, system currently contains more than 242,000 accepted species. not yet reached completeness: approximately 2,000 newly described...
Abstract. The analysis of biological and ecological traits has a long history in evolutionary research. However, trait data are often scattered standardised terminology that transcends taxonomic biogeographical context generally missing. As part the development global database marine species, we collated information for European seaweeds structured within framework World Register Marine Species (WoRMS). We collected 45 175 records 21 biologically ecologically relevant seaweeds. This resulted...
The Aphia platform is an infrastructure designed to capture taxonomic and related data information, includes online editing environment. latter allows easy access experts so they can update the content of database in a timely fashion. core that underpins World Register Marine Species (WoRMS) its more than 80 global, regional thematic species databases, but it also storage non-marine data. be consulted online, either by individual users or via machine-to-machine interactions. uses unique...
Scientific exploration of marine cave environments and anchialine ecosystems over recent decades has led to outstanding discoveries novel taxa, increasing our knowledge biodiversity. However, biological research on underwater caves taken place only in a few areas the world relevant information remains fragmented isolated publications databases. This fragmentation makes assessing conservation status species especially problematic, this issue should be addressed urgently given stresses...
Contextual data collected concurrently with molecular samples are critical to the use of metagenomics in fields marine biodiversity, bioinformatics and biotechnology. We present here Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics Biotechnology (M2B3) standards for "Reporting" "Serving" data. The M2B3 Reporting Standard (1) describes minimal mandatory recommended contextual information a microbial sample obtained epipelagic zone, (2) includes meaningful researchers oceanographic, biodiversity...
The objective of Workpackage 4 the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet) is to fill spatial temporal gaps in marine species occurrence data availability by carrying out archaeology rescue activities. To this end, a workshop was organised Hellenic Center for Research Crete (HCMR), Heraklion Crete, (8–9 June 2015) assess possible mechanisms guidelines mobilise legacy biodiversity data. Workshop participants were managers who actually implement activities, as well external...
The objective of Workpackage 4 the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet) is to fill spatial temporal gaps in marine species occurrence data availability by carrying out archaeology rescue activities. To this end, a workshop was organised Hellenic Center for Research Crete (HCMR), Heraklion Crete, (8–9 June 2015) assess possible mechanisms guideCorrespondinglines mobilise legacy biodiversity data. Workshop participants were managers who actually implement activities, as well...
1. Traits have become a crucial part of ecological and evolutionary sciences, helping researchers understand the function an organism's morphology, physiology, growth life-history, with effects on fitness, behaviour, interactions environment, ecosystem processes.However, compiling analysing trait data comes data-scientific challenges due to complex nature data.2. We offer 10 (mostly) simple rules, some detailed extensions, as guide in making critical decisions that consider entire life cycle...
Abstract. The analysis of biological and ecological traits has a long history in evolutionary research. However, trait data are often scattered standardised terminology that transcends taxonomic biogeographical context generally missing. As part the development global database marine species, we collated information for European seaweeds structured within framework World Register Marine Species (WoRMS). We collected 45,175 records 21 biologically ecologically relevant seaweeds. This resulted...
The importance of describing species patterns and the underlying processes explaining these is essential to assess status future evolution marine ecosystems. This requires biological information on functional structural traits such as feeding ecology, body size, reproduction, life history, etc. To accommodate this need, World Register Marine Species (WoRMS) (WoRMS Editorial Board 2017) expanding its content with trait (Costello et al. 2015), subdivided into 3 main categories: (1) taxonomy...
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) is being expanded to include species biological and ecological traits, their socio-economic status. In contrast a status may vary in place time. However, great importance society thus conservation concern, introduced, fishery or aquaculture resource, harmful, used as an indicator, are so noted the database. WoRMS complete inventory named marine species, managed by over 200 experts, contains additional information links on many species. We...