MedOBIS Biogeographic Information System for the Eastern Mediterranean and Black Sea funded by: Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education (CORE)

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MedOBISBiogeographic Information System for the
Eastern Mediterranean and Black Seafunded by
Consortium for Oceanographic Research and
Education (CORE)

• Valavanis VD, Arvanitidis C, Eleftheriou A,
  Costello M, Faulwetter S, Kitsos MS, Kirmtzoglou
  I, Petrov A, Galil B, Papageorgiou N
• Hellenic Center for Marine Research, Greece
• Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece
• Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas,
  Ukraine
• National Institute of Oceanography, Israel
• University of Auckland, New Zealand

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MedOBIS OBJECTIVESCreation of a new online
data/product dissemination of taxon-based search
marine biological information system(currently
under development, URL will soon be dedicated)

• Secure of historical biological data
• Assembly of current biological data
• Development of online database
• Analysis of data through GIS
• Data and product online dissemination

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MedOBIS 4 MAIN PHASESOF DEVELOPMENT

• DATA ASSEMBLY
• DATA FORMATTING
• DATA ANALYSIS
• DATA DISSEMINATION

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MedOBIS DATA ASSEMBLY

• Currently
• Ionian Sea 100 stations
• Aegean Sea 570 stations
• Black Sea 106 stations

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• 776 stations
• 4500 benthic taxa
• Period covered 1937-2004

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MedOBIS DATA FORMATTING

• Data conversions
• STATION LOCATION/ID in GIS SHAPEFILE
• STATION ATTRIBUTES in MS ACCESS
• AVHRR SST in GEOREF. GIS GRIDS
• SeaWiFS Chl-a in GEOREF. GIS GRIDS

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MedOBIS DATA ANALYSIS

• On-going GIS and Spatial Analyses
• BIOGEOGRAPHY OF BENTHIC TAXA
• MARINE PRODUCTIVITY HOTSPOTS
• MESOSCALE OCEANIC THERMAL FRONTS
• SPECIES DISTRIBUTION MAPS

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MedOBIS DATA DISSEMINATION

• ALOV Map
• Free online GIS shapefile viewer
• Online MS Access connectivity
• Client-server architecture
• MedOBIS-ALOV Map Development
• Taxon-based search
• Predefined zoomin selection

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• Taxon-based search (shown for Abra spp in red)

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• Predefined zoomin selection (user-defined zoomin
  area where stations are pre-selected for viewing
  and downloading further information)

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MedOBIS Current status/Future works

• On-going data assembly
• Integration of analytical products into the
  MedOBIS online data viewer
• Identification of species-environment
  interactions
• Migration to client-server architecture (as more
  data becomes available)

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MedOBIS the way forward
EurOBIS
ERMS v2 PROPE-taxon (MARBEF)
Data User
MedOBIS
Excellence of HCMR In Marine Biodiversity
Data Provider