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Biodiversity databases and database management systems for the world’s ocean: experience and outputs from five international projects Sergey Piontkovski Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook University, USA; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas, Sevastopol, Ukraine spiontkovski @notes.cc. sunysb . edu and Robert Williams Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK [email protected]
Biodiversity databases and database management systems for the world’s ocean: experience and outputs from five international projects Sergey Piontkovski
Biodiversity databases and database management systems for the
worlds ocean: experience and outputs from five international
projects Sergey Piontkovski Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony
Brook University, USA; Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas,
Sevastopol, Ukraine [email protected] and Robert
Williams Plymouth Marine Laboratory, UK [email protected][email protected]
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Global station network 163 cruises from 1957 to 1995163 cruises
from 1957 to 1995 21975 oceanographical stations21975
oceanographical stations
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Chlorophyll a and mesozooplankton measurements Plankton Data of
the Former Soviet Union: 1968-1992 Background: CZCS composite
chlorophyll Plankton Data ( World Ocean Database 1998)
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Akademician Vernadsky Professor Vodyanitsky Akademician
Kovalevsky
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Biogeochemical provinces of the ocean (by Longhurst, 1998;
Pauly et al., 2000) South Atlantic Gyral Province Eastern Tropical
Atlantic Province
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Plankton fields: direct and remote measurements Chlorophyll a:
Onboard CZCS Bioluminescence Intensity (0-100m) Zooplankton Biomass
(0-100m, mg/m3)
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Distribution of onboard chlorophyll a measurements in the
database Distribution of zooplankton data in the database
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Relationship between phyto- and zooplankton biomass over
regions Piontkovski et al., 2002 NASA website
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Normalised biomass spectra for 7 autumn AMT cruises. Latitude
(S) Piontkovski et al, 2002
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Species diversity index H H characterises the diversity in the
information units i.e. bits of information (Shannon, 1948) f i is
the relative frequency of species i, and f i is the relative
frequency of species i, and s is the numbers of these species s is
the numbers of these species
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Summary of the Atlantic Ocean data set: 93 cruises, 9474 CTD
stations (1951-1991)
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Jun-Jul1987 Surface chlorophyll-a distribution (g l -1 ) on the
background of 600 CTD stations carried out by two vessels in
October, 1986. Spatial resolution between stations is about 30
miles Brazil Africa
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AV41 Data (Feb-Mar90) Temperature DominantWavelength Secchi
Disk Chlorophyll-a Salinity Forele-UleScale
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AVHRR Ocean Pathfinder Mean SST Temperature Measured: Feb-Mar90
Feb90 Mar90 AVHRR Data from
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MARINE ECOSYSTEMS AND CLIMATE VARIABILITY: ZOOPLANKTON
COMMUNITY RESPONSE ALONG THE ARRAYS OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
OSCILLATION INFLUENCE Teams: 30 specialists from14 institutions in
10 countries: 1. Stony Brook University, USA 2. Scripps Institution
of Oceanography, USA 3. Texas A&M University, USA 4. Plymouth
Marine Laboratory, U.K. 5. Institute of Marine Sciences, Germany 6.
Baltic Sea Research Institute, Germany 7. Fisheries Research
Institute, Latvia 8. Laboratory of Biological Oceanography, France
9. Trieste University, Italy 10. Institute of Marine Sciences,
Turkey 11. Institute of Oceanology, Bulgaria 12. Institute of
Biology of the Southern Seas, Ukraine 13. Caspian Biological
Station, Azerbaijan 14. Sir Alistair Hardy Foundation, U.K. F
Funding requested: $1,248,394 D Duration of effort: 3 years
(December 1, 2002- November 30, 2005) Project Coordinator: Sergey
Piontkovski Marine Sciences Research Center, Stony Brook
University, USA
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Expression of Interest: Network of Excellence (FP6-2002)
PLAnkton Time series Observations (PLATO): ecosystem impacts of
global change
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Multiscale diagrams for the epipelagic community of the Indian
Ocean
