ChEssBase

Online database for species from deep-water chemosynthetic ecosystems integrated with

OBIS

Eva Ramirez-Llodra & Maria BakerNational Oceanography Centre

Southampton, UK

• 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

Background

• ChEssBase: ChEss database vents, seeps, whale & wood falls, OMZswww.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

• ChEss: global study of the biogeography of global study of the biogeography of species from deep-water chemosynthetic species from deep-water chemosynthetic habitatshabitats: field programme, database, O&E www.noc.soton.ac.uk/chess

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

• Jan. 2005: online on ChEss web site

• Aug. 2005: merged with InterRidge biological database

• Sept. 2005: integrated with OBIS

• 2005 – onwards: addition of sample data (now) & regular updates

area

phylum

family

genus

speciesendemicity specimen sample cruise

references

photos site

region

institutionhabitat

ChEssBase design

kingdom

class order

subspecies authority biology habitat

Sample info

Site info LAT-LON

ChEssBase interfase

> 700 species from 90 sites, ~1300 references

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) Macdonald (Texas A&M) Smith (Uni. Hawaii)

Chair International Committee and Executive Officer:Mark J. Costello m.costello@auckland.ac.nz

Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, New Zealand

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

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

Data by depthData by depth

< 100 m depth

100 – 1000 m depth

> 1000 m depth